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I’m going to be honest, the highlight of the past week of the quarantine was my discovery/re-discovery of Nintendo games. I have spent 30+ hours playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past on my old Nintendo 3DS. They’re so good! A Link to the Past was released in Japan in 1991, and I’m out here in 2020 and the gameplay still holds up. It’s still exciting, engaging, and engrossing.[note]I wanted to say captivating, but we have a thing with “e” going, and I’m a sucker for assonance[/note] Like, I’ve always thought top-down RPG games were tedious and boring, and here I am spending hours playing a game that’s older than me! ...

- Playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf[note]It's as peaceful and as addicting as everyone says it is. If you have any Nintendo-device, buy the game. And if it's a Nintend DS/3DS — add me![/note] - Playing Zelda: Link to the Past [note]I'm very surprised that the gameplay holds up.[/note] - Actually trying to make music[note]Like for real. I've opened Garageband and actually made something in there with a friend (remotely, cuz we're isolating responsibly)[/note] - Working From Home[note]It's the best, and I don't want to go back to the office ever again.[/note] - Finally finished watching BoJack Horseman.

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn’t quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” ...

So, uh, the monthly film photography posts didn’t work out, did they? Also: So, uh, it’s 2020 now, I guess? And the first month is over? Wow. Life comes at you fast. Here’s my ‘‘‘‘media diet’’’’ for January. Movies (and TV Show Seasons) Parasite Probably the best movie of 2019. Dracula Very much typical Moffat “all flash no substance” with a few perfect puns that were (most probably) written by Gatiss. ...

I’ve become obsessed with film photography, but I become obsessed with things really quickly and tend to forget about them and abandon them equally quickly. I’m hoping doing these monthly posts will help me stick to the habit and continue taking pictures regularly. I enjoy the process and (more importantly) I like that it’s a reason for me to go for a walk. An anxious brain like mine needs to be outside more and a lazy brain like mine needs a reason to go outside. So I’m hoping taking these pictures will be that reason. Anyway, September was mostly good. I had to take a business trip to Kharkiv, [note]Me. A business trip. LMAO.[/note] and that was exhausting. It basically took me out of commission for the first two weeks of October. But I’ll save that for next month’s post. ...

The climate or these things? www.youtube.com/watch

I actually first loaded this film into my camera in November of 2018, but then I had to move, and my film camera lived in the middle of a cardboard box until I found it again in August. The first picture of the roll. My cat, Sherlock, in our old flat. Also the only picture from November 2018 on this roll. An out-of-focus picture of me AKA the only way to make me look good in a picture. ...

Tim Urban is doing something that I’ve wanted to see for a long time. He’s taking all the problems we’re facing today, and laying the foundation for helping us solve them. And he’s doing it in a way that makes a lot of sense to me and appeals to me. He’s first forming a “language” and a way for everyone to look at things from the same perspective. So part of what I’ve spent three years working on is a new language we can use to think and talk about our societies and the people inside of them. In typical Wait But Why form, the language is full of new terms and metaphors and, of course, lots and lots of badly drawn pictures. It all amounts to a new lens. Looking through this lens out at the world, and inward at myself, things make more sense to me now. Tim Urban on Wait But Why ...

www.youtube.com/watch&t=969s

www.youtube.com/watch i self-published a poetry book that sold 20,000 copies (a self-pub how-to) Some great tips about self-publishing + comparing self publishing and traditional publishing + a discussion on the benefits of print-to-order and doing an initial print of 2,500 books.