Just the One...where I ask you out on a date for Friday night(s)
There shall be no mixing.
There won't be nary a record-scratch.
Hell, I might not even talk ("FINALLY!" I hear you shout but why are you like this?)
But can't we all just use a good time right about now?
As many of you know by my newly acquired RELAXED DEMEANOR and GLOWING VISAGE, I took this academic year off from teaching to achieve a play-oriented goal: returning to lo-fi radio in some way, shape or form.
Join me, miz saddity, tonight from 8pm - 10pm EST on wbar.org for my new radio show (yes, RADIO! on t'Internet!)...
In my capacity as DJ-not-authoritative-advisor-or-faculty-person-of-any-kind, I cannot vouch for anything else you might hear on wbar (pronounced "wuh-bar"). So refreshing!
But just maybe something you hear on yur mum's house will invoke a hazy memory of a really good time on a dance floor somewhere on the planet.
Conceptually, I'll be starting with a newer house music or dance song and doing a deep-dive on what came before it and other uses. It's kinda more of a rabbithole than I anticipated. This week's starting point?
Woo! Yeah! Wherever will this sample written by James Brown take us??
If this was Substack, I'd now urge you to subscribe so you could get access to BONUS CONTENT, i.e. a livestream of me dancing in the little basement studio like this:
With this rack, I don't Substack.
Poll results!
Question: do people acquire pets that look like them or do they grow to look like their pets?
No new poll. Instead a drawing! If you'd like to join me in the Passion Planner cult, I have an extra one that is the small version and looks like this. Enter the drawing here.
Try pronouncing it "tempus fuck-it"
Informal poll reveals consensus that summer went incredibly fast. There may be many reasons for this, but tempus fugit, baby. Even if that's the case, I continue to try to slow things down with meditating. Balance app continues to be my favorite secular, non-pesky mindfulness companion since March 2, 2020 (yasss, "good" surveillance data). Try it for free, if you want. I get nothing from that click other than perhaps adding more more person not losing their shit over something that's really not worth it. And, as we all know, there's so much strife attempting to claim our attention rn and always.
Be The Beth you can be.
And here are a few tasty ones just for you, Dream Date!
I've got BlueSky invite codes (h/t ZineLibrarian), if anyone wants. I mean, BlueSky right now is basically like arriving horrendously early at party, hovering near the snacks, and gnawing a hole in your red cup. GOOD TIMES.
Just one pondering: what happens if you think about the things that irk you as not a bug but a feature of being human? Bugs need to be fixed, eradicated. Features are just there and require adaptation…can a bug be modified or adapted into a feature? Someone made the feature/bug analogy when I was kvetching about something workaday and ordinary and it's super-handy.
Alas, don't be surprised if you're talking to me and I suddenly shout "FEATURE." I've also started calling annoying people, "exuberant." I'm re-framing, ya see?
Just a random one: what is love without action? (For real, if you have an answer hmu. That was rattling around in my phone somewhere.)
Just one tech tip: shift + command + T reopens recently closed tabs, if you haven't completely closed your browser. If you habitually leave a bunch of tabs open until the browser crashes, I've no help for such chaos-merchantry...except maybe the browser extension One Tab. GATHER YO'SELF.
Just one privacy tip:
How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy – The Markup
An investigative data journalist and a former tech lawyer teach you how to spot tricks and hidden disclosures within these interminable documents—and even how to claw back some privacy
Just one real NYC subway platform exchange:
Religious sect person or hipster in prairie-wear: "Do you want to come to our church this Sunday?"
"No. Do you want to come to our BDSM dungeon?"
No bluffs were called. This rat saw the whole thing...
Perhaps I'll see you in the chat...at yur mum's house.