A Pleasurable Headace: Resolution Run
Updates
This one is going out slightly earlier today as in a few hours I will just be about to start running the 5K Resolution Run in aid of The Stroke Association.
But it’s not too late to donate. As I’m writing this, I’m just £5 short of meeting my target. Any donations are welcome and hugely appreciated.
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Jumping right into the comic side of things, there are currently eleven days to go on the Headspace Kickstarter campaign. Get on that if you haven’t already.
As mentioned last week, you get the entire mini-series, plus all of the back matter I wrote for the single issues originally. I’m super-psyched to see the project is already funded. Headspace holds a special place in my creative heart as it was my first major project as an editor. I’m really excited for it to get in front of an entirely new set of readers.
Speaking of Kickstarter:
Coming soon to Kickstarter: a construction worker reflects on his life, his ‘stache, and his newfound bucket arm. MITCH HAMMER #2 with @Fdo_Pinto @kmichaelrussell @MarcoDellaVerde @ckosek @dan_hill
Keep your eyes peeled on Chris’ Twitter feed for news on the impending Mitch Hammer #2 Kickstarter campaign. As a refresher you can click through to look at the campaign for the first issue. I’m excited to be a part of Mitch’s bizarro adventures going forward.
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A short one this week as I have some prose to edit and a run to prep for.
I’ve been thinking of making this newsletter a more regular thing again. Yes, even after I took it from weekly to bi-weekly not too long ago.
If I did, there wouldn’t be as much in the way of project updates, but definitely more in the way of links and commentary.
I’m under no illusions that the majority of people are subscribed due to the links section so I’m eager to lean into that.
Something to chew over.
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Links
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A nice list of books for comic book creators. Just a reminder that I compiled this a few years ago (I haven’t updated it in a while, mind).
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I appreciated this no-bullshit approach to productivity by Sam Altman.
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24 hours in a New York Diner, a disappearing world.
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An excellent article over at Aeon about how escaping the internet ‘echo chamber’ has similar hallmarks to fleeing a cult.
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Vulture has an eye opening piece on how fifty female movie characters were described in the screenplay.
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Wait But Why came back from a long hiatus with a huge post about choosing the right career. An excellent and thorough read. Put aside an hour for this one.
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A team of hackers stole the ‘high roller’ database belonging to a casino via an internet connected thermometer in the casino’s lobby aquarium. The ‘Internet of Things’ is a blessed thing.
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Hiding Morse Code in pop songs.
“The first necessity is to claim the morning, which is mine. If I look at a phone first thing the phone becomes my brain for the day. If I don’t look out a window right away the day will be windowless, it will be like one of those dreams where you crawl into a series of smaller and smaller boxes, or like an escape room that contains everyone and that you’ll pay twelve hours of your life for. If I open up Twitter and the first thing I see is the president’s weird bunched ass above a sand dune as he swings a golf club I am doomed. The ass will take up residence in my mind. It will install a gold toilet there. It will turn on shark week as foreplay and then cheat on its wife.”
- The lies underpinning the Robin Hood myth.
- Bizarre but interesting piece on The Guardian about youngsters pretending to be day traders on Instagram in service of a weird, updated version of the pyramid scheme.
- Craig Mod on how he’d improve the current Kindle interface. I’m inclined to agree.
- Fantastic piece by Laura Hudson at Wired about how Ready Player One is a mirror to our current tech dystopia.
- A lengthy long read about the demise of the nation-state over at The Guardian.
- Teen Vogue has a pretty good definition of Capitalism.