I'm back on my BS
Just a couple of quick things, I’m doing stand-up comedy again, so occasionally I’ll put a little bit of a blurb up top to let you know where you can see me, like this
Hey, I’m performing at the Angel Comedy Club in London, the Bill Murray Theatre on May 14, 2022!Like that. And that’s a real gig. But I don’t have a ticket link yet. But I will.
So in the meantime, here’s some quick little tids:
I’m telling everyone: Go see Everything Everywhere All At Once. Don’t watch the trailer, don’t read anything about it, just go.
You like Wordle but want more? I’m enjoying Yeardle, Framed, and WeighOff.
My opinion about the Will Smith thing is the whole thing was gross, I thought the acceptance speech was cringier than the actual slap, and I can’t wait to hear what Chris Rock has to say. While I’m not really onboard with the “God told me to defend women” angle of Smith’s speech (which I thought was very gaslight-y), I also am persuaded by Black perspectives that have noted that we have grown up on “Handsome Prince saves damsel” narratives with white faces for our entire lives but there was a layer of racial coding that caused us to see this as a violation. At any rate, I’m sure you have plenty of opinions to choose from on this topic.
I think I have space to add 1-2 more podcasts to my listening routine, please comment or message if you have recommendations. One that I’m really enjoying is Imagined Life… the premise is it’s told in the second-person from the perspective of a celebrity before they got famous, so it’s a bit of a puzzle/mystery trying to figure out who the subject is. Although a few times you get to the end and you’re like… ewwwwww.
I’m very excited to be traveling to London in a month to see Punchdrunk’s new show The Burnt City. I’m just hoping COVID has declined there before the trip.
Finally, this will only be useful to a few of you, but if you need a utility for creating subtitles for a social media video pretty quickly, I’ve had good luck so far with veed.io.
Have a wonderful day!
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