March 18, 2020

The Inaugural Edition

Hello!

If you’re seeing this, odds are you’re one of the folks that I send links to from my weird corner of the internet, which mainly consists of being on Twitter way too much for any reasonably healthy person, and that was before the world fell apart because of this virus, and I got the chance to catch up on all this backlogged drinking. I was going to use all this extra time to better myself, but then they closed most of the parks I was interested in retreating to, so I’m flipping it around and worsening the lives of anyone who decides to opt into this.

By signing up for this you’ll probably get a bunch of links to whatever interesting things I encounter in my digital travels, recommendations for things to watch/listen to/read and whatever else happens to be crawling through my brain. Hopefully I’ll get my shit together enough for longer form thoughts in another venue, but consider this a catch-all for everything.

Culture Recommendation: Dogleg - Melee - An absolute ripper of an album that rarely slows down, read a great review from Pitchfork, check out their album via whatever platform you use and then find their wares and other goods here. One of the less obvious casualties of this time, Dogleg was one of many acts due to perform at South by Southwest, and they’ve had to spend the last couple weeks figuring out what life looks like in this current/post-pandemic world, so any streams/purchases you can throw their way would be great.

This is a good look at the positive changes that the quarantine has brought about in Venice, and, really, all these post-human docs need to consider how much nicer everything would look if cities didn’t have a bunch of gawking assholes roaming around.

Shudder is a very good service, like a video streamer that only has great horror films, and they’re offering a free month right now to help folks get through this.

This past Monday was 3/16, and, to commemorate the occasion, WWE had Stone Cold Steve Austin, he of Austin 3:16 fame, return to Monday Night Raw for the first time in who knows how long. Due to the unforeseen plague, the show’s venue was moved to WWE’s training center in Florida, and played out in front of an empty arena, which resulted in some very surreal comedic moments.

If you’re still getting paid through this shutdown and have any extra discretionary income due to not having to work, there’s a website set up to collect donations for folks impacted by all the business closures for you to chip in.

This is when I admit that, before we go any further, I watched CATS in theaters thrice late last year, twice in its original incarnation and once after it was patched with what I will call a purr-vice pack and hope it doesn’t enrage you. So believe me when I learned of the existence of a version of CATS that still has all the cat buttholes in there, I’m probably just as confused as you. Was there a contingent in the production that pushed for this added detail? The result of an especially perverted focus group? This is probably going to end up being a hoax but if anyone’s reading this that has the power to bring perineal feline shots into my life, please do it, it may just heal the country.

They really have to figure out a way to make sure all the emails I’ve received telling me every internet bedsheets company I’ve ever looked at is Very Concerned about Covid-19 don’t count against my storage quota. It’s nice to get in touch with folks with a built-in excuse, but that doesn’t really apply to like fifteen technical wallet companies but it’s still nice I guess.