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)

I’ll find something to put here.