I enjoyed this bit of filler from The Atlantic, (AppleNews link) strongarming their staffers for some free copy around the premise of stuff from the culture they’d like to get rid of and stuff they’d like to come back.
Example?
I was weirdly upset to read that Pam Heydon is stepping out of the soundproof booth.
Hello. My name is JB, and I am a terrible procrastinator. Always have been. Always will be.
But I try not to let it drag me down to hell. Just because I was born and remain a degenerate time waster, down in my meat and bones, doesn’t mean I have to waste every hour of every day.
It took me a long time to learn that and to learn what I could do about it.
I work on a few projects I can’t talk about, usually because they belong to other people. Screenplays, TV pilots, adaptations, that sort of thing. But occasionally, one breaks free into the light.
And so, I’m gonna do a weird thing here. Imma send you to LinkedIn!
Because the guys from Valens Games have me doing an adaptation of one of their strategic policy RPGs, Sleeping Giants.
The Die Hard Nakatomi Plaza Advent Calendar (with Falling Hans Gruber to track the days of Christmas.
In my quest to read something, anything other than US political news at the moment, I came across this great recipe for Mac-n-Cheese. How to Make Mac and Cheese like a 47 year old Black Man:
This is one of those rare, weird posts for paying subscribers only. I threw a book together last week that will be going on sale next week, but for now, for you, it’s free.
When I dug that last image out of my drafts, this came up next. One of my fave historical posts. (And a lesson we forgot long ago).
I have just learned from Delicious magazine that Bunnings Sausage Sizzles in WA are not as they should be.
One greasy, supermarket snag folded into a single slice of supermarket white bread and slathered with sauce?
No.
Look at this bullshit, would you.
