Here's some stuff that happened in the past
Hey, you beautiful people,
In an unsurprising turn of events, I cannot sustain a seven-day-a-week publishing schedule here without going insane or abandoning or ignoring the many other parts of my life and career.
I was hoping that I'd make so much money from the Indiegogo campaign that I'd be able to focus on this project, but that did not happen. In an unfortunate turn of events, I might lose money on the Indiegogo thing because I want to end it and refund everyone's money but Indiegogo seems intent on getting their suspiciously large cut of the exceedingly small total all the same.
Thanks to a much-needed wave of pity paid subscriptions around the time I announced my campaign's failure, I got up to fifty paid subscribers, but two hundred and fifty dollars a month cannot justify a project that takes up fifteen hours a week at minimum.
I kind of saw this coming. The Weird Accordion to Al, my column on "Weird Al" Yankovic's life's work, was initially supposed to run every weekday at Nathan Rabin's Happy Place. That quickly proved impossible, and I went down to three times a week.
At the time, it seemed like no one cared but The Weird Accordion to Al, but that turned out to be a book that sold thousands of copies and had a cultural impact in helping people appreciate the magnitude of what "Weird Al" Yankovic has achieved.
Hopefully, a similar dynamic will be at play here and with my upcoming book, The Fractured Mirror, where it might not seem that impressive in pieces, but when you put it all together, it's pretty fucking amazing.
There will be no articles this Saturday or Sunday. We'll resume on Monday with Steve Martin's first appearance.
This is a marathon, not a sprint. If it takes me four years to write up every episode of Saturday Night Live, then it will take four years.
You can't rush genius or whatever it is I'm doing here.
I apologize for not publishing as often as before, but back in the group home, they used to say, "Know your limitations," my limitation is that I just can't keep up the pace I've set and need to make my career less hectic and chaotic and more sustainable.
Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.
neat, eh? Man, I LOVE this silly newsletter.