6aug24

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• How to reduce the risk of developing dementia (hey, I’m 56 now)
• Global Market Meltdown Adds to Geopolitical Chaos
• NHS ‘soup and shake’ diet puts almost a third of type 2 diabetes cases in remission

OPERATIONS: I should progress UNCODENAMED SCRIPT COMMISSION, but I’m going where the energy is today, which is building out episode 1 of PROJECT BORLEY and figuring out its complex toolbox and shape. I am thinking of it as Reduced Comics or Stark Comics, currently. Starting Sunday’s newsletter.
STATUS: INBOX 82. 68bpm resting heart, cardio check says “average for men my age,” which probably means I’m actually dead.

Deleting feeds out of my RSS reader, removing some “news” provision, unsubscribing from some surplus newsletters. I’m starting winter hermitage early, maybe. But I’m also sick of clickbait and emotional-contagion bullshit washing up at my door.

READING: EVERYTHING IS CINEMA: THE WORKING LIFE OF JEAN-LUC GODARD, Richard Brody.
LISTENING: THE DANCE OF THE MOON AND THE SUN, Natural Snow Buildings
LAST WATCHED: I will always watch a re-run of HARD TARGET
THINKING ABOUT:

…the novelist Marguerite Duras.. had developed a style that could be called postexistential: her stark, incantatory sentences seemed to be wrenched from a cosmic silence.

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