November chirps
I'm off Twitter so here come a bunch of tiny thoughts!
A bit of a life update: My life is kind of revolving around four things right now: stand-up comedy, re-learning to be a coder, a new podcast I’ll be launching soon, and physical therapy. If I can keep these four plates spinning I think I’ll have a good year. I’ll definitely chat more about these pursuits in future newsletters. And there will be significantly more newsletter activity, because:
I’ve deleted all of my tweets, leaving my Twitter account up just for DMs with a handful of people. Some sharp writer friends of mine have taken to their Substack newsletters with their tweet-like thoughts and I thought, oh, that’s not a bad idea! So I’m going to collect a bunch of things that would have been on Twitter and send them to you as a nice little batch. I guess Christmas came early this year!
Eric and I are watching The Patient which is just okay. I find it a little distracting that Steve Carell, not Jewish, is playing a man that is Jewish, and being Jewish is very important to the storyline. And in episode 6 there was a sequence where I said out loud, “See, this is where I would have said maybe someone else should play this part.”
Checked out a new pop culture podcast and I thought this was a funny (and hopefully not reflective) comment: “I’m not really into NBC multi-cam shows, I haven’t watched one since The New Girl.” (The New Girl was a single-camera show that aired on Fox.)
Highly recommend Netflix’s The Mole. While watching it, I kept saying to Eric, “That’s not how it was in the original,” and then I would Google the original and that’s exactly how it was.
If you’re interested in nightmares, definitely ask an AI art generator to create an image of two people kissing!
All I can think during the recent troubles is how human beings keep falling for Ponzi schemes, then we forget, and then we tell ourselves why the new Ponzi scheme isn’t a Ponzi scheme, and it happens again.
I’m going to try to consume more “cool” media… and yes I just looked up what that mean. Media that requires you to bring yourself to it, it doesn’t just goose-feed its way into your maw with no effort. Kind of the opposite of conflicty-engagement-y stuff… books, theater, live poetry… newsletters.
I really admire Taylor Swift’s career execution but I wish the new album were better… it’s kinda bland to my ears.
Elon Musk asking his employees to click an online form to commit to
Clear out a small divot of mental space for the return of The Chris Grace Show. Shooting for Christmas at a podcast provider near you.
PLUGS:
I'm doing 30 minutes of comedy this Friday in LA at The Hollywood Comedy with my friend Greg Berman. This will be the longest set I've done maybe... ever? Come watch me flounder! $15 tickets here.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
The Rehearsal, Ibibio Sound Machine, candles from the Wal-Mart Black Friday sale, brain.fm, brilliant.org, A Mind for Numbers, physical therapy, going to physical therapy, not canceling physical therapy.