Extra Evil - Pompeii Siesta
Today's Fortune: You can give yourself the serenity.
Newsreel
Murkowski should have a prank show.
Zohran's behind you! Look out!
A 60-day ceasefire offers phbbbbbbbbbbbbbt
Creatine may help nerds' thinky head muscle too.
Thailand suspended their PM for overt corruption. Weird.
Hikers in Korea enjoyed pristine swarms of buzzing insects.
You Need This
Still paused. Book stuff hitting from every direction.
A Photo
War Journal
The same workload feels easier. Everyone deals with a near-random set of psychological switches, and I think I deal with pressure far more easily than uncertainty. Not that either can match my true nemesis, the externally imposed setback. All that zen babble melts. I'm always two incidents away from Darth Vader HR.
Update: Okay, not that much easier. I'm up late again.
Pitch: any political joke with more than one million live repeats in one year should become a bill. A full draft, debate, and vote. I don't expect useful policy, but it would force us to look a few things in the eye. And the results won't be worse.
Those one-liners about guillotines? Let's hear the idea out. How many people feel that way? Why?
Stock jokes about cancelling Christmas? Gone, like ghosts. December op-eds get an across-the-board upgrade.
"Live" is important, since content vampires and microblogs could ruin all the fun. And sure, might stuff the box a bit with assorted stunts. Good. Most of us are closer to Norse Magick than the political process. I'm ready to waste eons of legislator naptimes.
As for logistics, we're in a surveillance state. It'd be easier than a range of even less useful ideas we're sprinting at headfirst.
After the launch party fell through, I embraced some self-indulgence. I swept through a psychologically healthy number of bookstores to sign books. I call it the Cope Tour, and it's been amusing so far. I can feel my calves turning into trees.
Eric's really trying to rekindle our enmity's spark. Appreciated, but it's just not the same anymore.
You can learn a bit about readers by watching people debate Batman vs. Superman. Either character quality or who wins a punchout. Both tell you a bit about what they take from stories.
A Screenshot
The Present
- I hear this book's pretty funny. [How to Dodge a Cannonball]
- You'll miss the scam coverage. [1900HOTDOG]
- I talk Snapdragon Suplexes and freestyle booking. [Sunday Morning Wreckage]
- Amran still thinks I'm funny. Weird. [Amran Gowani]
- We summoned a himbo demon. [The Dogg Zone 9000]
- This other book's pretty funny too. [My Previous Book]
The Past
The Future
I'm a guest here! I'm a guest there! I'm a guest everywhere! I'm in your office tomorrow, say hi.
Contest Ads
Victoria Oosterhout's ad prompt is wonderful:
"Sunscreen for Blacula. Because we all need sunscreen."
Fantastic.
First, our agency needs a name. See More Evil is perfect, so that won't do. Better something meaningless and hip.
That means nothing, per agency tradition. I've just sat on the url forever. I'll point it at an ad archive at some point.
On to Blackulas. Their struggle? Staying alive. Now bigots and Belmonts want you dead. Burning crosses have double utility. It's not a good time.
You need to be able to run. All day, any day.
Campaign A: Time to Go
Campaign B: Dust
A or B?
Not Brought to You By
Philip Morris must have crushed early ads to last this long. Let's take a look in the wayback machine.
That child has killed.
Keep that thing out of my home.
He has stolen her light. Her very essence. Her soul.
A fine ad for the NRA. Well done, this mascot's at least a 0.3 on the Popsicle Pete scale.
Creativity: D+ | Persuasion: F | Sanity: Shattered
One Sentence Reviews
Honest Jeff & Dishonest Abe: I don't get people. (0/5)
Beef (Rewatch), First Third: Still hits. (4/5)
Two Giant Screens: My revolution. (5/5)
Writerdek: My counter-revolution. (3.5/5)
A Question
Signing off
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