Here’s a mix, sporadically assembled over the past 9 or 10 months.

this adorable audience award from the Small File Media Festival in the mail yesterday!

It’s a 3D-printed plastic (?) bear, slightly shorter than a AA battery. A welcome little focal point of diversion from the weird wider world (receiving a USPS delivery on Sunday being the least of it.)

(Also pictured: a ceramic replica of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, a birthday gift from my brother which I was also excited to receive.)

this New Yorker article, but I’d click the like button for the accompanying gif if I could.

Animation by Javier Jaén; photograph from Getty

in a notebook for an unrealized project, dated 12/4/2014:

(NOTES: need for completion, fixedness; the thing to be attained; what makes it all worthwhile, provides closure so the story can end;  Something is always far away. [quote from Rebecca Solnit];  Process/result, journey/destination, etc.)

(a stick figure sees a shiny thing atop a plinth, thinks, “I want that! Then it will be good.”)

(the same stick figure, now atop the plinth holding the shiny thing, sees another shiny thing atop another plinth a little farther on, thinks, “Oh! Look over there!”)

overthinking it and just start posting things on here.

(flip phone photograph of the U.S. National Capitol columns)