The Steve Reynolds Program - Issue #15
Whoa! Do you remember this? I started doing these in Fanta Sé and then fizzled out after we moved back to The City of Festivals. Ah, simpler times.
A Newsletter We ALL Forgot About!
Hey! I got a bellyful of Nigerian-Korean fusion cuisine and a hankering to share!
Now we are in a pandemic, now matter what those dudes horny for biznazz want to tell you. I hope you all are being prudent. We flirt with danger by delivering liquor for our favorite store but masks stay on and sanitizers are applied.
Since last time, I did several episodes of a podcast (come to think of it, I think that's what stopped this newsletter), continued standup, and wrote a damn book! Yep, it's a mystery coming out very very soon (I wanna say within weeks, but I've learned from opening a small business, estimates are always wrong). I am very excited about it and will be hawking the ever-loving print out of it.
I already am working on the second novel (more of a comic novel in the vein of this book I'm highlighting here. I also have the third one in mind too. These three are all now are reminiscences of a time where people interacted in physical spaces and slobbered all over each other times. I miss those times so much.
Here are four things I recommend. Two are from a draft of this newsletter from almost two years ago where I just have their names written down and nothing else. Thanks, website, for holding onto those two phrases for so long.!
Boston Spaceships - Ready To Pop I'm recommending something by Bob Pollard? quelle surprise! But this is the best song ever about a guy with a huge beer gut who is excited his wife is pregnant because they can wear the same shirts. It cracks me up to even type that. Listen, I promise you'll get it.
The Black Stallion and Walkabout double feature: two "kid" movies from the first and end of the 70's. Lots of extended silences and surviving in extreme nature. Which one do you enjoy more? Which do you feel is more realistic? Compare and contrast. Send in your report to your teacher.
Double Threat with Tom Scharpling and Julie Klausner I was going to recommend one of two podcasts this time. The other one You're Wrong About is great and has great takes on news stories of the past. (their OJ Simpson episodes are very good, and I didn't think I ever wanted to hear about that again). BUT I put Double Threat over it because it has made me laugh and laugh loud more consistently than anything in 2020. Tom and Julie work great off each other and they find some amazing material to tear apart. I'm still chuckling about their reactions and riffs to The Red Rocker's lockdown message.
CrimeReads and their coverage of book covers Book covers are big on my mind. A friend and artist is designing the cover to the book (the one I'll be talking about ad nauseam for the near future) and while I wait, I found a lot of eye candy on this site I found thanks to David Schmid's classes available on Great Courses (free on Kanopy!)
OK, that's it for now. It was good to stretch this kind of writing muscle, now I have to ice it down (read: drink a beer) Follow me on twitter @wampusreynolds and stay safe, friends
