d&f 7/11/22
D&F 7/11/22
I did it!
I finally went bike camping.
Thanks to Emily, I got a waitlist spot on a women and NB bike camping trip to China Camp this weekend, and on Wednesday, I got a spot. If you’ve read this newsletter or my site for a while you know I love camping and cycling, so combining them is a long-time dream.
I’ll write more about this trip on my site later, but for now I’ve gotta get back to the news.
This is the test: If the platforms went bankrupt, or kicked you off, or you wanted to migrate, could you take everything you wanted with you? If not, why not build your creations on a path that you control and own?
It’s important to own your platform. If you don’t it can quickly turn against you, or into something you want nothing to do with.
A few weeks ago I watched Enemy of the State, a semi-prescient film about the nightmare of Homeland Security and privacy violations. A key prop looked really familiar, but it took me a minute to hunt down this failed portable console. I had a Neo Geo Pocket Color, a GameBoy, and a Sega Game Gear, but I never even heard about the NEC TurboExpress. Now it’s 2022, and I’m playing black and white games on a strange, rare handheld.
With a new show dropping on the 15th, I am more excited than ever to share Nathan Fielder’s weird comedy. During the first year of the pandemic I rewatched all of Nathan For You along with two seasons of How To with John Wilson. There’s something indescribable about the joy I get from the awkward comedy of these two men. The effect of the constant questioning and long-silences is often excruciating, but the tension release of laughter is never far away.
Links
- At this point you’ve probably seen this video, but I still laugh every time:
Closing
Sorry for being a day late, but I was bike-camping for most of the weekend and got home late Sunday and fell asleep. More next week on a regular schedule, space cowgirls~