Links for September 18, 2024
Burnout pumpkin by Colton Sturgeon via Unsplash
- The History—and Surprisingly Dark Theories—Behind 'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater' – “Eeper Weeper, chimney sweeper...”
Adventure Games Promo is Here! – GOG is running a major sale, with new and old classics like Dredge, Blade Runner, and Sleeping Dogs, selling for next to nothing. For the Halloween season you might dip into any number of chilling old point-and-clicks, including Shadow of the Comet, Waxworks, Realms of the Haunting, the Elvira games, Harvester, or D. (If point-and-click adventures are not your bag, there are like a gajillion other GOG sales going.)
Planting a Digital Garden (via) – I recently set up a bearblog because I would like to have a personal space set pretty far apart from my writing portfolio. In the past I had always mushed all that stuff together, having long been fascinated by the fine, fine line between public and private, but in this modern era of “parasocial relationships” and reality TV—and after a lot of reconsidering my own boundaries—I am striving to be more intentional and conscientious about what goes where. Anyway, I really liked what this person had to say about planting and tending to a digital garden, and they are describing what I think resonated about Tumblr. I had... like, 9 concurrent tumblogs, I think, so clearly there was something I enjoyed about tending to each little space.
Josh Johnson Has Become the Funniest Guy on the Internet. That Is Not a Joke – “My comedy is a relationship between me and the people that come to the show. Posting to social [platforms] is my relation to people who I hope will come to a show one day and who I think will enjoy these jokes. When I’m done with a joke, why not share it?” I read this entire interview in his voice. His comedy strikes me as… very Buddhist, very ‘let’s not rush to a judgment and let’s just unpack this.’
The 7 types of rest that every person needs (via) – I have had a lot of difficulty obtaining these types of rest, and I’ve also experienced a lot of burnout. And now I have a new way to think about this. I do need a lot of physical rest because of what I've read is inefficient oxygen transport on a cellular level. But I also need a lot of social and emotional rest; lately I've been trying to be strict with myself about who I spend time with. (Later, when I googled “7 types of rest,” I saw that a writer at Psychology Today had concluded their article by suggesting there is another type, an eighth. They didn't explicitly call it “bowel rest,” but it was bowel rest.)