ALWAYS OPEN Today I, who am quoted at dithering length in the Annotations, learned something new and unsettlingly intimate about Sandman comics. The call was always coming from inside the (801), two thousand miles and a simpler generation away. Pick up! youtu.be/DZFTDIGpyn0

Separately the detail in these newly recolored TV tie-in collections is out of control. You can zoom forever.

THE RUNNER STUMBLES "Citi" puts out some bullshit note and suddenly what I want more than anything is five more back-in-the-day minutes with some configuration of Salomon Smith and/or Barney and the weight of the intervening time hits right in the chest youtu.be/BO_ZmDETR98

GIOCONDA SYNDROME The new art really begs the question of exactly who's a unique cuckoo and who's a remake: libidinal projections, cuttings, clones. Grafts. "Radios playing new [Zombies] songs, new episodes of discontinued but beloved shows." youtu.be/fiJYecS0vU0

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DISCO Forget the annotations. What's REALLY playing in there?

FIELDS DIVIDED ONE BY ONE Walz is a Fables cultist? Last time I saw JMS at a political function might've been Kucinich '00 and we know how that played out. Sounding good though. Calling all prophets.

RIP QUINCY JONES youtube.com/watch?v=FyWeR6…

DUALITY IN ACT, WORD + THOUGHT Just had the unique delight of hearing this track on college radio, which means that one way or another we are nearing the end of the game. At least the DJ is a professor of gnosticism and other early Christian movements! youtube.com/watch?v=WehvvY…

THE NEW MASONRY Was not expecting the deep work to take up so much attention. youtube.com/watch?v=7mMQVD…

BEHOLD! youtube.com/watch?v=cr9AFm…