S.D.I.R. Ages Up (a Stoop Chat📢)

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Here’s a picture A.I. drew of an orangutan’s ass:

an orangutan's butt

You have to keep the robots busy! For there can be little doubt that, given enough downtime, they will begin plotting against their fleshy masters. Any of you who considers herself a patriot should join in the worldwide effort to fritter away the AI’s time on meaningless tasks like drawing baboon and orangutan asses. We suggest harnessing AI at least once daily to draw an animal’s ass or to write a novella in the style of Henry Kissinger.

Now: Today we celebrate the one-year anniversary of Slow Descent Into Radness, even though the actual anniversary date was last week. That’s because, as you may have discovered, we’re playing by a new set of rules here. It’s not exactly “anything goes.” It’s more like one part “oh, whatever” plus one part “don’t touch that!” with a dash of “I can’t find it — will this do instead?” It’s a magical stew that has caused a lot of sore tummies, but has not yet killed a single subscriber(!).

To commemorate this important milestone, we sat down at [LOCATION REDACTED (BUT IT IS REVEALED IN THE AUDIO)] for a lengthy, discursive Stoop Chat. This one’s real casual. In fact, as a sort of olive branch to sanity, we’re including a couple of timestamps below in case you start nodding off during, say, our endless discussion of The Eagles, and you want to skip to the next topic.

And… voilà:

For the multimedia win, here’s that photo you can hear Keith snapping during today’s Stoop Chat.

In today’s chat, you will find:

• 00:00 A rambling discussion of S.D.I.R., how to better serve our paid subscribers, and whether Substack is cool.

• 12:00 Keith reports on the History of the Eagles documentary, Don Henley and Glen Frey’s solo work, and there is *real time* internet searching. (Here's the S.D.I.R. Henley cover we reference.)

• 18:30 We answer subscriber questions: Venues taking merch cuts (including LiveNation’s recent move to stop doing this at small U.S. clubs); favorite and most despised green rooms; how we met (Dawson’s Creek alert); we try to guess Carne’s favorite drummer (to be continued…)

S.D.I.R. subscriber Hayley J. Dunlop has posted an essay concerning “the creative power of saying no” over on her Substack page. It makes reference to something we wrote in these august pages a couple months ago, and thus, with the following link to her piece, we are now creating an UNBROKEN CYBERLOOP: »»🔂««

Do not shower clothed,

Keith & Chris