🔖 Read The Sad Clown Joke That Became a Beloved Meme.
My favorite take on Pagliacci is Rhett Miller’s theme song for the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression.
📚💬📓 “… being transparent about one’s positionality, and choosing a granularity of analysis appropriate to your actual knowledge and experience, are key choices soneone must make as they enter fan studies.” Henry Jenkins, “Textual Poachers, Twenty Years Later”
🔖 A swirling soup of thoughts in my head about self-presentation after reading these posts:
- The personal brand paradox - Debbie Millman
- Build a reputation instead of a personal brand - Tracy Durnell
- The power of writing your story down - Jas Hothi
You know what’s really great for a migraine is the monthly test of public warning sirens in the Netherlands. OH WAIT NO THAT DOES NOT HELP WITH A MIGRAINE.
🔖 Read Is My Child Eating Enough Pirate’s Booty?
Parenting comedy is a microgenre that always lands with me.
🔖 Read “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather.”
Took me a little while to get into the format of this short story but in the end I loved it. Big The Hazards of Love vibes.
Today’s adventure: NEMO Science Museum. Very cool, but I’m spoiled by having an awesome science museum in my hometown. I think it would have seemed even cooler were I not so blessed.
Finished reading: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 📚
I’m extremely late to this one. It’s excellent, of course. I love the way Angie Thomas shows that even in the face of tragedy and appalling oppression, there’s room for joy.
🔖 Read Interview with Kelly J. Baker: “I can’t push through when I’m stuck.”
“My writing routine became write frantically whenever I had a chance or had the energy to do so.” Dr. Baker knows.
Another Dutch meal: stamppot boerenkool. This is smoked sausage with sauce on a bed of potatoes mixed with kale. I really liked the sausage but it turns out even mixing it with potatoes can’t make me like kale.
