Your brain is not designed to endlessly absorb awful news, overwhelming emotion, and a sense of helplessness. The human brain is simple, and you’re overwhelming it. About 11,000 years ago, we exited the Pleistocene. At that time, we ceased being purely hunter-gatherers, and moved into an agrarian society. We learned to farm, communicate better, and[read more]
Author Archives: Shane Morris
30
Jun
Jun
In case you haven’t read this already, you should. Carl Bernstein, one of the Watergate guys, just concluded four months of reporting, and his sources told us what you were probably already assuming: Donald Trump isn’t much different in private than he is in public. He’s a fucking idiot, and the only person he cares[read more]
12
May
May
Buried in the subtext of a racist flourish before exiting stage right, yesterday’s press conference accidentally asked a much more important question: How did China manage to test so many people? First, China’s numbers: LOL nope. Moving on then… What China did effectively was testing, isolation, and mapping the spread. Hubei Province is no small[read more]
Apocalypse, Politics
The one where the Washington Post accidentally highlights the generational divide of the Democratic Party
26
Apr
Apr
One entertaining part about being a fly on the wall is being able to read how people “of a slightly different generation” view responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. I don’t know Paul Kane or Mike DeBonis, but I do know they co-authored a piece this morning in the Washington Post that answers a question that…[read more]
22
Apr
Apr
Giant baby is not a baby, but a rather large 3-year-old named Gavin. He lives in the Midwest, with his mother and father, where he will soon presumably grow into a giant adult. According to his mother, he is 43 inches tall, which by CDC guidelines, puts him into the 99.9th percentile for children his[read more]
I’m shooting video. From home. Because I have to be here. Logically… my dogs are getting involved.
13
Apr
Apr
Now that the entire world is socially distanced and locked down, I can’t shoot video the way I normally would. Yet, I still need to be able to shoot pre-roll commercials for my business. I need a camera that I can use, that doesn’t have some insane learning curve to make it work. (I love[read more]
10
Apr
Apr
Let’s just start this off, because I know most of you probably just want to know one thing: “Should I give this one a listen?” The score, in case you’re trying to get out of here… 8.5/10 It’s really good. It’s not quite at that “listen-to-it-every-day-for-a-few-weeks” level of greatness, but I genuinely enjoyed it. Whether[read more]
09
Apr
Apr
Music Startups Are Scabs: Don’t Pick Them At some point this week, a music startup pitch will find its way into my inbox. Like most bad ideas, it’ll arrive around 3AM, right as the cocaine is wearing off. Not my cocaine, I assure you — the sender’s cocaine. I went to sleep around the same time our dear[read more]
09
Apr
Apr
Sometimes, when I need a chuckle, I’ll hearken back to this piping-hot take from guy-who-is-often-wrong-as-fuck, Jonathan Chait. It was called “2012 or Never“, and I still remember reading it the day it was published. This was earlier in the Twitter-era, but politically active types still shared it around, patting themselves on the back. Back then,[read more]
- 1
- 2