In any scam, any con, any hustle, the big winners are the people who supply the scammers - not the scammers themselves. The kids selling dope on the corner are making less than minimum wage, while the respectable crime-bosses who own the labs clean up. Desperate "retail investors" who buy shitcoins from Superbowl ads get skinned, while the MBA bros who issue the coins make millions (in real dollars, not crypto).
Haven't been too active here lately, but finding myself with a bunch of times on my hands and a lingering associated sense of isolation and loneliness, I'm intending to be more present. There's a bunch of you I miss.
Will be using this account to largely to share #comics and 1950's - 70's #printculture stuff that catches my eye.
And my occasional bits of writing about Doonesbury, like this new bit.
I’ve got a confession to offer - my parents got me an Amazon kindle and after a lifetime of being an actual book in hand guy I’m really enjoying this so far.
@mrcompletely@CKHesq I probably do 80 percent of my reading on the tablet these days. When l'm in the hospital, it's great to have endless books/comics.
I'll be okay for the next little while; my plan is mostly to use the summer as an opportunity to do a bit of badly-needed healing and work on my own little writing projects.
That said, a bit of income would be great. If you or someone you know is looking for some editing/tutoring/writing help (summer is a great time to start on Common Application and supplementary essays for your kids/nieces/nephews/young friends who are university-bound), please drop a line.
@virtualbri@arstechnica I imagine that because a ton of Disney material is based on adaptations of intellectual properties they bought (Marvel, Muppets, Star Wars, etc), that residual/royalties to the original owners of those works might add up to a dollar or two...
@virtualbri@arstechnica Oh, l'm not talking about the "creators" as in the artists and writers that did the actual creative work. We all no that nobody who matters cares about them. I'm talking about the corporations that produced the commodities and held the rights to do so.
Here's a "New Acoustic" classic album I haven't thought of in awhile, Todd Phillips' Released. New #acoustic was one name for the post DGQ wave of #music that combines #bluegrass instruments with #jazz repertoire and concepts and a very high level of virtuosity. This one features Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Darol Anger and John Reischmann on material like Nardis and Miles' Mode - Tony listed the latter as one of the performances he was happiest with.
I've been listening to almost nothing outside of the Dawg/Marshall-Anger/Edgar Mayer/Rice etc extended universe for a few weeks now. It's like something clicked in me, pushing me from digging it to hearing something that resonates way more deeply.
I dig the traditional stuff, but there's something about the more harmonically dense stuff that fits just right.
@mrcompletely@LostReflector Also, now that my neuropathy is easing off in my hands enough to play melody lines on the acoustic guitar with a pick, (chords/fingerstyle not so much), this stuff is super inspiring re: rebuilding tone and technique from the ground up.
