Hi Friends!
I’m sorry I didn’t have anything to publish last week. I got hit with the ‘Vid. That is COVID, or as my 83-year old mom said, “Oh is that thing still around?” She is also looking to invest her war bonds in your Scooby-Doo BitCoin, so please message me for details. I am much better.
It did give me the chance to work out a slight pivot for this newsletter that I’ve been thinking about for a while now. I’ve been trying to put myself in some kind of tidy subject category–the “I write about bespoke cocktails from the 1800s!” (I mean, who doesn’t at this point?) type of focus. Mostly because it can help people find your work, but it’s also somewhat of a crutch; for me, it’s a leftover habit from academia of having “specialization” tattooed on the brain. I don’t like it. I feel like I’m wearing a clown wig to a funeral going, “Please take me seriously.” Not advisable.
I don’t have an expertise that other creatives here do, but I have a thru-line that is also my lifeline: Humor. I’m excited to let you know I’m relaunching this newsletter as: Humor Saves! Comic relief for the incurable condition of life. Welcome all, again, again.
I am also really, really bad at writing these faux-dating-LinkedIn-type ABOUT sections. Each one I’ve come up with for every iteration of this newsletter has been garbage in some sort of branding language that just makes me want to loofa every organ. So instead I created a manifesto:
There’s nothing too radical to this update–regular pieces of conversational writing with a humorous slant are still coming at ya hawwwt! (I am not cool. I know this. Sigh). I thought it added a bit more clarity to the kind of art I’m committed to making.
I’m still not sure where my photography fits or if it does at all. Maybe I’ll get the mumps this week (I jumps for the mumps! Is that anything? Yes? No? Run it by Peggy Olsen) and have an epiphany on that.
Hang in there, pals. It is definitely the worst of times and the more worster of times, as Dickens wrote before his editor had a look at that first draft. Look out for one another. I’ll do my part to add a little comic relief to the mix. ONWARD!
Grateful for you all!
XO! -She
Cheering you on! I always love seeing your newsletter hit my inbox. Onward with the pics and the laughs!
COVID! Oof. I'm glad you're feeling better.
More humor! More pics! More all the things!