Day 2 Post AC
It may surprise you to know that ladder acquisition launched me into an extra four hours of playing that game, and how great it is even though the very heart of it is a never-ending series of debts to a tanuki. I’m thinking about getting the new Doom as well because all the videos I watch of it make it seem like absurd fun just ripping hellbeasts in half and while Animal Crossing is great in one aspect of escapism, shoving rockets and plasma into things can be fun in its own way. Really I’m probably just going to get back into Grand Theft Auto because I was inches away from getting into the latest Division game but currently the idea of walking through an empty, hollowed out DC makes me feel more anxious than anything.
Listen to this: Irreversible Entanglements - Who Sent You?
One of the weird side effects of everything that’s happened is how people have had to improvise on the fly as infrastructure allows. Irreversible Entanglements is a free jazz group I had the chance to see at Rhizome, a home in DC converted into a community art/performance place (also closed, due to current conditions, but well worth a look if you’re a local reading this). They were there in the first place as a pivot, from a tour that was due to start in Europe, in Italy no less, before everything became the way it is now. They were set to promote a new album, now out and available and well worth your time. The link goes to Bandcamp but if you have some other service it seems to be available on all the major ones.
Shout out to Jackée. Twitter’s made me hate the most random celebrities but it has also helped reveal some people as even better than I could imagine, and anti-ICE Lisa Landry? Absolutely fantastic.
New York City released a guide to sex in the age of coronavirus and lockdowns, and it heavily implies that self-love (hereafter referred to as “honking off”) is the most assured away of preventing transmission, and then it quickly escalates to recommending roommates, which is not usually the first check-down but I’d imagine the decision tree for most folks is a little larger/smaller based on your situation. It is nice that it takes into account sex workers, recommending remote work during this time, though I don’t care for singling out eating booty like groceries as a particularly risky act. Their words, not mine.
To end on some levity, here’s Steve Martin playing the banjo. I grew up knowing Steve Martin only as the Cheaper by the Dozen/Bringing Down the House guy, so it’s been a joy to discover his older work as well as enjoy his recent run of writing and banjo virtuosity and Martin Short shows, the last of which is now available on Netflix.