Club PA Newsletter #72 (Patreon)

Is this gonna be a newsletter without a location for a secret meetup?  Is that even a thing that happens!?!  Did we get through it?

It's starting to catch up with me now just how much a run like that asks of you.  It was just a perfect storm, the distribution of shows just happened to line up so tight that they were launched in rapid succession, like a sequenced fireworks display.  I don't feel tired, I just… well, I'm also tired.  But I'm also     

The Greebler Elf and I have both tricked our families into watching Lego Masters, which they endure with varying levels of tact.  I guess I thought that I liked playing with Legos but I don't do anything even remotely close to what these people do with the same toy.  They consider space using these devices, build organic looking volumes, finding in the pieces references to higher forms and evoking them.  I mekk space-chip for my little mans.    

It's not a spoiler, I don't think, to comment on the idea that the show is made up.  The studio isn't some naturally occurring, bioluminescent cavern these strangers have stumbled into, and it's as constructed as everything they're making on the show, just from different pieces of a more cosmic scale.  But it's rare that you get the sense you can see right through one of these things, and Episode 5 does that.    

(If you're looking for a surprisingly strong piece of reality filth to wad the hours before death, Interior Design Masters on Netflix, or whatever it's on where you live, actually feels robust to me in terms of the work being done and the legitimate, expert criticism the contestants receive.  I hang around artists all day and the dialogue felt very true to me.)  

Alright.  I'm going to crawl under the covers, pull up the weighted blanket, die, and yet go on living, 

(CW)TB