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I think I could write police blotters for the rest of my life. If there were a market for this, I would fill books and books of these, like the sudoku books you get at the airport. I could pair this with my other fantasy of writing small flight-length books for golf travellers to throw away or leave on the plane. When we're young we think we have to dominate the entire world, but as you age you realize it's much more likely that you can dominate just one small category.

I want to write books that travelers treat like used coffee cups. Maybe the universe finally will agree this level of hubris is acceptable from me.

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b.zap

I miss the Arcata Eye police blotter

Matt Mitchell

I’d imagine you could spin years-long arcs that dovetail w each other.

Achewood

That’s the dream, man. That’s the dream. Spending the rest of my days weaving little inferred tales in books only seven people care about. I’m almost entirely serious.

Matt Mitchell

As someone who also works in extremely niche zones, I can absolutely relate

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

I just came back from visiting my dad at the memory care before reading this and all those old folks are the perfect audience for your police blotter bits. Assuming they can still read, of course. Happy tales of the outside world, etc. Or harkening back to their childhoods in the 1940s and 1950s.

Ben Sunshine-Hill

This is of course not the first time you’ve brought the police blotter to bear. Do you find the format a counterspell to the modern viral thrum? That the item earns more authentic relevance through being local and therefore personal, rather than through the world voting it The Most Interesting Thing Today?

Ryan Boyle

Eat a realm of ass, Samuelss

Achewood

I could read fictitious police blotters to people in memory care! In a tuxedo. I am starting to like this.

Achewood

I mean, I’ve always liked Burger King better. They spray on that “cooked” flavor. I don’t know. This whole thing seemed like it was theirs to lose.

Achewood

Well, clearly I am not the person to look to for successful modern viral marketing examples…I think I have 5k Instagram followers after a quarter century. I like the police blotter format because it’s fun to create a stepping stone, connect-the-dots path through a universe I can design any way I want, to suit my eerie sense of the ideal world.

Bruce Wright

I haven’t heard anyone stand up for Burger King in just ever so long.

b.zap

how else would we know the daily goings on of showbiz the serial veg scatterer

Ben Wilinofsky

Sort of tangential, but since we're talking about weird formats: you know how every recipe online has 4000 words of rambling about the chef's life before you get to the first ingredient? I always thought you could compose a really interesting recipe book that told a coherent story by weaving those together. You could follow the arc of a single person's life, from cheap college age meals, through the vegetarian section when they try to be a better person for a woman they met who makes signs for protests on campus, the depression meals after they break up (how many stars do "spiteful hot wings eaten over the sink" rate?), so on and so forth. Our food habits are already a window into the state of our inner world. Anyway, this idea has been kicking around in my head a long time, and now it has kicked its way out, but I think it's something you could pull off splendidly.

Conor Nelson

Loved the version of this back in the day that was everyone realizing who was coming to RB's / Molly's wedding.

Doc G

::big bite:: ::chews thoughtfully:: ::nodding:: "...indeed, Cooked"