I did a search yesterday to see if I could find the attendees for this year’s Republican National Convention. This year has been awful, so much death, and so much scapegoating and cowardice from the people who led us here. I didn’t want to watch the convention. I just wanted to know who was going. […]
I had a weird dream last night again. I’m at someone’s house, and their living room is covered in these strange mayflies. Only, they’re some kind of white and pink hybrid between mayflies and mosquitos. They keep crawling towards me, but when I blow, they puff away. But they keep crawling. The walls, the carpet, […]
I started writing these on my own, then at classes at the Magnet and the Upright Citizens Brigade, because I wanted to get better at comedy writing. I wrote out a pilot for 'Bobidoo and Me', basically the third stab at it, and realized that the problem was the comedy bits.
When you pressure yourself to be brilliant, you can often end up robbing yourself OF your brilliance. The idea that people and their ideas are coal, and that with enough pressure you can get a diamond is a lovely metaphor.
I continued work on a piece about why I’m making Thigments https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lWgr87_k7nT11VTN0_rPmJgfX5SARY4wJSV0-awpuy0/edit I’ve been chasing this rainbow since 1997 in my own way, in fits and starts. My hope was that in New York, I’d learn how media becomes successful. I’ve learned a lot here, not the least of which that, strangely, I fit in […]