Month: May 2020

Coronavirus: Day 57

Woke up this morning to have to shoo a vulture out of the yard and clean up the remains of a half eaten squirrel carcass. Because that’s the kinda ominous start you want to the ninth week of social distancing…

Jasper has really gotten into the Beatles lately. He likes to sing along to a few of the songs: Help, Eight Days a Week, Ticket to Ride. I didn’t realize he knew Hard Days Night until Pixies “Here Comes Your Man” started and Jasper perked up and said “Beatles?”

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Good ear, kiddo.

Jasper is also at the age where sticking things up his nose is funny. The other day it was during dinner and I hear a “Look daddy, boogies,” and I discovered a pea up his nose. Fun times. He’s lucky he’s cute.

Coronavirus: Day 56

It’s been eight weeks, folks…

Discovered JQBX and am loving it. Reminds me of Turntable.fm which was a fun site almost a decade ago.

Funny enough, Vice published an article YESTERDAY about Turntable with folks longing for it and a good history of its rise and fall. Seems its fall was a consequence of going legit:

Unlike many startups, the site also made a point of properly licensing its music, which required legal and engineering infrastructure that was expensive for a young company with a user base around the size of the population of New Orleans. Further, initial deals with U.S. record labels forced the site to remain stateside.

“The actual major hit was closing international traffic and needing to lock down to the U.S. after securing our label deals,” said Chasen. “We then spent the next couple years trying to get the deals needed to open internationally. It was a move that was ultimately costly both in time and money.”

Hey, remember nearly EIGHT WEEKS AGO back when this whole “I miss places” thing began and there were all of those folks writing articles and Twitter threads about how this time at home would be a great opportunity to learn a new language or write a book or discover a new hobby or one of those other millions of things folks with free time can do? Haven’t heard much out of them lately.

Funny enough, McSweeney’s posted and article YESTERDAY about wishing one could be more productive during this time they’ve spent cursed by a sea witch.

When I was initially transformed into a repulsive sea polyp by Ursula the Sea Witch, I admit to being more than a little shocked. One moment I was a carefree mer-person swimming and siren-singing; the next I was a hideous sea plant held captive in an undersea lair. Still, I knew I had to come to terms with my plight if I was going to survive. So instead of falling into despair and hopelessly waiting for her spell to break, I vowed to focus my energy on completing personal projects.

But now, eight weeks later, I am starting to feel guilty about not using my time spent cursed more productively.

Is it too much to ask for some consistency in the quality of tin foil for my hat?

So the same audiences pushing the theory that COVID originated in a Wuhan lab are now pushing a video with an anti-vax doc who says it’s caused by a bad flu vaccine.

Sure we’re getting some conflicting messages from the government, but c’mon, conspiracy theorists, be consistent!

It’s absurd that the same folks who “question the Deep State” don’t question the myriad of crazy theories that outright contradict each other in an effort to find whatever they can to support their hypothesis.

If you supposedly care about the TRUTH and accuracy so much that you’re not taking doctors and government at face value, apply the same metric to the dude running data they got via an anti-vax Facebook group through an Excel spreadsheet to share on their YouTube channel.