I do this manually each Saturday, collating most of the tweets I made the past week at [twitter.com/disquiet](https://twitter.com/disquiet), which I think of as my public notebook. Some tweets pop up [in expanded form](https://disquiet.com/2021/12/31/ring-out-the-old/) or otherwise on Disquiet.com sooner. It’s personally informative to revisit the previous week of thinking out loud. This isn’t a full accounting. Often there are, for example, conversations on Twitter that don’t really make as much sense out of the context of Twitter itself.
▰ RIP, Wayne Thiebaud, who died on Christmas at age 101 after bringing so much pleasure to so many eyes. I only got to speak with him once, on the phone while writing a profile of painter Mel Ramos, his lifelong friend, for [sactownmag.com](https://www.sactownmag.com/the-naked-eye/).
▰ If IMDB indexed furniture, the entry for Emeco chairs would be the longest page on the internet
▰ Dishwasher (two rooms over) to the left of me, rainstorm (outside living room window) to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle again
▰ I am totally down for Mos Espa parkour.
▰ I’m 67% (45% when I first tweeted this) of the way through Fonda Lee’s third Jade novel, *Jade Legacy*, and it’s truly thrilling. It never takes the easy way out. On the one hand, I’m sad to see the series come to a close. On the other, I’m so glad to see how compelling and transportive it is, how far it goes.
▰ There’s a lot I love about *Dickinson*, the TV series, and right now everything else takes second place after the jazz that plays every time Walt Whitman speaks.
▰ Excited to spend more time in Bogdan Raczynski’s new [https://clang.gg](https://clang.gg) community in the coming year. For fun, here’s an email interview I did with Bogdan 22 and a half years ago: [“Turning Japanese.”](https://disquiet.com/1999/06/01/bogdan-raczynski/) (In response, Raczynski likened decades-old interviews to high school yearbook photos.)
▰ My day began with @’s related to poetry (via [Rachael Nevins](https://twitter.com/RachaelNevins/status/1476583938432897029)) and to livecoding (via [Bogdan Raczynski](https://twitter.com/bogdanraczynski/status/1476589184769003523)), which is alright by me.
▰ So glad Bruce Levenstein is [digging](https://twitter.com/BruceLevenstein/status/1476658368483835905) the trio of Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella, and Eivind Aarset on the 2019 album *Lost River*. One of my favorite albums of the past few years. The guitarist Eivind (autocorrects to Divine) Aarset is great as a leader and often at his best as a collaborator and supporting player.
▰ Mornings sounds, last day of the year: external drive beeps and whirs as it reboots; a bus’ breaks bring it to a stop briefly (clearly no one was waiting to board, nor did anyone disembark); a car speeds west on the wet street at pedestrian-defying clip; house creaks as it warms.
▰ This week in the annual end-of-year project, Disquiet Junto music community participants are stitching together year-end retroactive sonic diaries by concatenating brief snippets from existing tracks to represent the past year. Playlist in progress at [soundcloud.com](https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0522).
▰ Only three episodes left of our *Dickinson* holiday spree*. :(
*née binge
▰ Only two now. :( :( On the bright side, when they’re over there are exceptional leftover Salvadoran tamales for lunch.
▰ Wow, *Dickinson* is a treat. TV has no shortage when it comes to flights of fancy, genre blending, hi/low mashups, public-domain spelunking, self-aware reboots, and professional-grade fan fiction. *Dickinson* is all of those, and it makes good on its source material and its conceit.
▰ Best receipt font of 2021
Side note: The “little spicy” following “medium spicy” is apparently how the kitchen is signaled to find the zone between medium spicy and very spicy.