Oh, cute. This shit again.

February 2024: This is the note I sent to Substack subscribers when I chose to move to Beehiiv. Think of this post as your “about” page.

—TAPS MIC, DOES RON HOWARD THROAT CLEAR FROM S4E1 OF ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT—

The last time “we” “spoke,” more than two years ago, I gave you a list of things I liked from and about 2021 – number three of which was “only making shit when you feel like it.” I’ve always been good at nurturing and rewarding my own petulance to engage in exercises or activities that do not give me an immediate surge of dopamine, so how could I ever expect a sustained newsletter of myself for longer than a few weeks, at best? 

(All that to say: I have a fickle, inattentive brain, and sometimes “not feeling like it” is code for “not having the tenacity or discipline to follow through on something that was, actually, a pretty good activity for me, despite it being way too ambitious and my mind being dulled and my spirit tamped by a career in corporate middle management.”)

Anyway, I have a bit more time on my hands these days, so right now I want to give you one recommendation to rabbit-hole you into other recommendations – a new little daily newsletter I’m using as a love note to the internet. It’s called The Goon Line, because I want to encourage people to go online (GET IT?!?!?), and because I, myself, am a goon.

The internet is not as interesting or surprising as it once was. Or maybe it’s not for me in the way it used to be. (Maybe it’s going to get good again?) It has absolutely become more difficult to find new or cool or weird or funny or stupid things that I enjoy and want to share with other people. But I still like the internet, and I want other people to like it, too.

If you’d like to, please pop by to subscribe for one little internet recommendation every weekday, beginning on Monday, 2/19 – at least that’s the plan, now (and I’ve preloaded content to help me to not feel so overwhelmed as I kick this off, so you’ll at least get a few “good” weeks out of it).

Happy Valentine’s Day to you, and to the internet. Let’s go online!