While MacroParentheticals0064, the first of its new paid subscription iteration – along with the now NL-exclusive GROUND LOOP return and Sanctum access – arrives in +/- 60, I remain amused by last night's cinematic choice: started Guy Ritchie's THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. on IMDB TV and, while the film itself is a ridiculously fun romp, it’s the dissonance that the timing and content of the commercial breaks lend to the viewings that deepen said amusement. Current favorite: Solo says he's going out, the door opens – and we cut to an animated foot in an ad for DESPICABLE ME 3 followed by something about makeup. Will check out more IMDB TV offerings as well; can only hope that the charming dissonance continues.

A week in linkage:

A frequent – and exceedingly useful – visit: Untools.
Obscenely detailed scan lets you peer at Rembrandt’s Night Watch masterpiece online (via The Verge).
A Hungry Badger Dug Up a Stash of Ancient Roman Coins From a Cave in Spain and Archaeologists Are Amazed (the Badger Less So) (via artnet news).
They look just like new, but Levi’s 501s are now made from liquified fibers of old jeans (via Fast Company).
A ransomware attack took a New Mexico jail offline, leaving inmates in lockdown (via The Verge).
Studio Ghibli asks fans to help Hayao Miyazaki replace his beloved eraser / UPDATED 20220117: Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki gets a happy ending to his broken eraser tale (via SoraNews24).
Cave + Ellis = magic; loved ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING: After ‘Jesse James’, ‘One More Time With Feeling’ & ‘Blonde’, Andrew Dominik Re-Teams With Nick Cave & Warren Ellis On ‘This Much I Know To Be True' (via Deadline).
These are AMAZING: Back in the USSR: 1920s Soviet film posters (via The Guardian)
The new album is sublime: Cat Power: ‘To this day I sleep with my bedroom door locked’ (via The Guardian).
A fascinating – and timely – story; also recommend David Talbot & the late Spain Rodriguez's PULP HISTORY telling, DEVIL DOG: Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? (via The Guardian).
A Spider-Man Panel From the 1980s Just Fetched a Record $3.4 Million at Auction (via artnet news).
New Radigue incoming- celebrate: Éliane Radigue To Release Her First Organ Work, 'Occam XXV' (via The Quietus).
One Guy Replicated the Entire Choir from "Halo" (via The Awesomer).

UNCLE-related: Cavill would make a fantastic Bond – though I have a feeling he'd be more in the Roger Moore vein (which isn't my brand of vodka). And so it is and so it goes. MacroParentheticals 0064 – and THE GROUND LOOP's NL-exclusive return inbound; the day awaits.