Even though April’s been way too warm so far, it might average out toward the end and thus not be an immediate cause for alarm—at least, that’s what I keep telling myself to enjoy the sun. On the other hand, not enjoying the sun wouldn’t make anything better or worse. Also, there are enough conflicts going on, some of them escalating, some pending, that dim our near-term prospects as a species enough even before the climate catastrophe hits. (And the nauseating amount of political callousness and techbro derangement isn’t helping.) Anyways, let’s keep this short so I can go for a run!

I’ve finished sorting my photographs from Penang Island; editing and posting will start soon. Meanwhile, there’s my ongoing Düsseldorf album at Flickr and my daily vintage travel-squaries at Pixelfed. I wrote a blog post on LLM Support for “Clarity” in Creative and Scholarly Writing at my secret level just drafts and posted micro-reviews on Mastodon from my activities last week: Christopher Nolan’s Following; Miyazaki Hayao’s ルパン三世 カリオストロの城 aka Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro; and the art exhibition openings Speaking Soil at Philara and Forthcoming: Speculations in Urban Space at K21. (Courtesy of a public transportation breakdown, I didn’t make it in time for the Arthena Foundation’s panel discussion I mentioned last week.)

This week, if you’re around, you can meet me if you want to on Monday for Brahms and Walton at Tonhalle; on Tuesday for Nolan’s Memento and Miyazaki’s となりのトトロ aka My Neighbor Totoro at Metropol and Bambi, respectively; and on Wednesday for a Neue Musik concert at Neanderkirche in Düsseldorf Altstadt.

For the Sunday Funnies, here’s two pieces of music: a (very U.S.-specific) pharma commercial parody song by Elle Cordova and a piano concerto for two hands and a paw. Enjoy!

J.