Open Thread: Practice Guide for Newsletter
Also: the moon is full of sperm?
In 1991, songwriter Ron Miller wrote a set of affirmations for the practice of music, which Glitch user @thricedotted made into a web app that could be adapted to any art. So I give you:
It is only newsletter and I am a beautiful person.
“Scientists want to send 6.7M sperm samples to the moon,” reports the New York Post. A team at the University of Arizona held a press conference to present their plan for “Lunar Pits and Lava Tubes for a Modern Ark,” where they want to “cryogenically preserve various species in the event of global disaster.”
How surprised we’ll be to discover it’s already there.
Happy Friday, welcome to the open thread. This week we had the Oprah with Meghan and Harry interview, David Brooks apparently keeping one of his jobs, Piers Morgan’s big flounce, the glowing sharks, the HuffPost massacre, a lot of NFT hype, and COCAINE BEAR. I thought maybe it’d be a good day for follow-up questions and updates. There are a lot of smart folks subscribed here, so what left you feeling like “?????!!!???” this week? Maybe someone can help.
If you’re not a subscriber yet, head right over here and take care of that first, and if you are, hit the 💬 and tell us what’s on your mind.
Also this didn't seem like MAIN EMAIL news but it's my dog Samuel Taylor's second birthday! Please wish him a a happy one and at least 10 more. We're going to the pet store later so he can pick out some new toys.
We had to have a fire drill this week. The state required it. But since we're on a hybrid schedule, only 1/4 of the kids who are choosing to go to school (which is about 40% of the total students) in person are in the building at any given moment. So we had TWO fire drills, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. Which, fine, okay, but then last week some construction workers set off an alarm and we had to clear the school. For....a fire drill. But the state wouldn't let us count THAT as a fire drill. So we had THREE fire drills in six days. And they scheduled the THIRD fire drill IN THE MIDDLE OF A CLASS PERIOD.
So what did I do? I took a cue from all the libs and I CANCELLED CLASS. That's right. We just sat here and talked about cancelling class. How freeing it was to just cancel things. And then I was like YOU KNOW WHAT KIDS? I'M CANCELLING THE WHOLE ASSIGNMENT! And MAN did those kids love it. We decided to call it CANCEL CULTURE and I'm now the coolest 41-year-old dude in the hearts of at least 25 kids. Well, 24, since one kid was super bummed about not getting to do his project. But still.