goals

For the next few months or few years however long it takes:

• More concrete usage of notebook / journal as corporeal thinking brain with improved legibility or at least enough to get the notes into Obsidian at a few hours' remove for digital workspace / zettelkasten purposes.

• Press(A) 02.

• An acceptance that the morning is when my stores of willpower are at their peak and when I'm at my most creatively fertile and that efforts to expand that throughout the day are, at best, a way to avoid other realities of life that would be best served by being present for them.

• Further incorporate randomness-by-choice into my day.

• Decide on how to integrate social.parentheticalrecluse.com into this space and implement it. Would love to use it as comment system. Though I have no clue how to go about doing that. Anyone want to help?

• A full embrace that being a writer is only part of my identity not all of it and that all of those other parts fuel and infuse one another though am I always thinking and seeing like a writer.

• This this is the only this that there is right now.

More if and when I figure it / them out.

Dick Tracy milk glass lightbulb: duly (and lovingly) filed as the weirdest item in my collection.

Super Powers (1984-86)

The toy line to rule them all. Orion figure still throws me off after all these years.

Haven’t been this pleased with an Oscars outcome in years (though I would’ve liked to have seen Austin Butler win for ELVIS: he was amazing).

I’m too old for this time change shit.

The Shadow (1994)

That this line was made at all is remarkable. They remain the only Shadow action figures, so I’ll take what I can get. Figure collection: complete. Vehicle collection will be with arrival of Shiwan Khan’s motorcycle.

Tommy Lee Edwards | Insta

ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN (Jesny, 1968)

(Written and directed by Vojtēch Jesny; starring Radoslav Brzohaty, Vera Galatíková, Vlastimil Brodsky, Vladimír Menšik, Waldemar Matuška, and Drahomíra Hofmanová. Released 1968; watched 2023w10 via Criterion Channel)

The first of my Tycherion-chosen Criterion watches and a winner: deeply moving, often hallucinatory (the animal carnival among them) vignettes spanning+/-15 years in one Czech village as it and the wonderful characters inside it transform and reveal their true natures from post-WWII elation to the ruin of Communist dictatorship, a case study in the raw power of using deeply drawn humans occupying few locations and multiple eras. While Jesny's film may be my first exposure to the Czech New Wave, it most certainly won't be my last. Still processing it – and will be for awhile.