Thanks! It is what helped me find this substack, which I’ve really enjoyed. We’re hoping to do more collaborations soon 🗞️ the comics and haiku are like chocolate and peanut butter - a perfect combo
I am very excited by such creative diversity - I have only just subscribed to you but this was a great guest post and I am looking forward to seeing more of you too!
I wonder if Lao Tzu had been writing today if he would'e said no one can watch the same television show twice instead of no man can step in the same river twice. There's something very Taoist about the ways our perceptions of art change over time.
That’s the most Taoist thing imaginable, I think. Even television isn’t television anymore, it’s Tik Tok and YouTube clips of shows, and memes. Now I’m hearing Aerosmith, “Meme On”
Burgess was the best!! From TZ to Batman to Rocky 😊 and while I couldn’t get Burgess I did get a really special narrator for the audio version, that should be available in a few weeks, and has a special bonus audio interview with Jason as well (called “weirdo poetry”) 🥳
The way Substack seems to foster collaboration is one of my favorite things about this platform! Luckily, with most of the collaborations I've done so far, other people have done all the brilliant hard work!
I just read the synopsis in Wikipedia (could not find as a book - yet). The premise is chilling, (a foreshadowing I think of what might happen if Putin wins his campaign of aggression in Ukraine.)
Serling’s stature is unparalleled i think. Generationally relevant too. Burgess inhabiting every character in the series - and elsewhere. (Also why I demanded from my first pair of very necessary glasses in sixth grade that we get two pairs of them - and have ever since)
I love how the constraints of the technology and network censorship pushed Serling and his team to be creative with how they built tension and suspense. I sometimes feel like some modern horror lacks the strong storylines of the Twilight Zone and settles for gore
Great guest post! The Twilight Zone was great classic horror. I can’t watch gory movies. Maybe because I had my fill of real life gore as an ICU/Trauma nurse when I was just out of college. A lot of people don’t know that Steven Spielberg made a spooky made-for-TV movie back in the 70s. It was called Something Evil. I remember sneaking out of bed trying to see what my parents were watching. 📺 I think it’s on YouTube.
Thanks! I remember feeling really conflicted and guilty about wanting to see what was under there, but also not wanting to see it, it really makes you examine yourself. Just brilliant.
It was an honor to have had the opportunity to do this, thanks Jason!
It was my pleasure! I'm thrilled every time I find another weirdo out there doing interesting work at the intersection of poetry and pop culture
Excellent! Oh my what a great idea for a book.
Thanks! It is what helped me find this substack, which I’ve really enjoyed. We’re hoping to do more collaborations soon 🗞️ the comics and haiku are like chocolate and peanut butter - a perfect combo
Absolutely agree! Keep up the great work 👍
Chad's book is so, so good! I can't wait for the rest of the world to discover it when it goes live tomorrow
I am very excited by such creative diversity - I have only just subscribed to you but this was a great guest post and I am looking forward to seeing more of you too!
Thank you! I have some good stuff for the rest of the week!
“Same eyes, different perception “ a profound observation.
Thanks!!
I’ve found over the years that the art I like seems to change as I do, funny how that works 🙂
I wonder if Lao Tzu had been writing today if he would'e said no one can watch the same television show twice instead of no man can step in the same river twice. There's something very Taoist about the ways our perceptions of art change over time.
That’s the most Taoist thing imaginable, I think. Even television isn’t television anymore, it’s Tik Tok and YouTube clips of shows, and memes. Now I’m hearing Aerosmith, “Meme On”
Great guest post, thanks so much Chad! And outside of the Burgess Meredith reading episode, this is my fav TZ as well :)
Burgess was the best!! From TZ to Batman to Rocky 😊 and while I couldn’t get Burgess I did get a really special narrator for the audio version, that should be available in a few weeks, and has a special bonus audio interview with Jason as well (called “weirdo poetry”) 🥳
Fantastic, will definitely check out. Have fun working with Jason, had a blast doing our collaboration post!
The way Substack seems to foster collaboration is one of my favorite things about this platform! Luckily, with most of the collaborations I've done so far, other people have done all the brilliant hard work!
That show was way ahead of its time. thanks
The more I dig into the show the more I found, and it’s influence is still reverberating 🎃🙂 Serling was such a gem and gone too soon
He was a 3 pack smoker. Did you ever see “In the Presence of Mine Enemies”?
Haven’t seen it - will look it up
I just read the synopsis in Wikipedia (could not find as a book - yet). The premise is chilling, (a foreshadowing I think of what might happen if Putin wins his campaign of aggression in Ukraine.)
Agree, these are disturbing times for many reasons, I often wonder what Serling would make of it all.
Serling’s stature is unparalleled i think. Generationally relevant too. Burgess inhabiting every character in the series - and elsewhere. (Also why I demanded from my first pair of very necessary glasses in sixth grade that we get two pairs of them - and have ever since)
2 pair - brilliant!!
In the 50s it was a real fear! (there were no school
counselors shielding us from bomb drills).
I still always have a backup pair of glasses--just in case.
💯
So funny I totally remember that episode and being horrified! Great guest post!
I love how the constraints of the technology and network censorship pushed Serling and his team to be creative with how they built tension and suspense. I sometimes feel like some modern horror lacks the strong storylines of the Twilight Zone and settles for gore
I haven't watched much horror in years, and i think that's why. I don't really want to watch gore, without some psychological tension...
I'm very much the same way.
Great guest post! The Twilight Zone was great classic horror. I can’t watch gory movies. Maybe because I had my fill of real life gore as an ICU/Trauma nurse when I was just out of college. A lot of people don’t know that Steven Spielberg made a spooky made-for-TV movie back in the 70s. It was called Something Evil. I remember sneaking out of bed trying to see what my parents were watching. 📺 I think it’s on YouTube.
Ooohh, might have to watch that tomorrow!
That sounds vaguely familiar. I’m going to seek this out for Halloween!
I'll have to seek that out! It's a new one for me.
It's got all the good 70's scary tv movie components: a sweet family, an old farm house, a weird town, etc. 🧑🌾👻
Sounds creepy!!
Also as a trauma nurse you might need some light comedy or something to decompress 🫣
Thanks! I remember feeling really conflicted and guilty about wanting to see what was under there, but also not wanting to see it, it really makes you examine yourself. Just brilliant.
So do I! It has been the stuff of nightmares for me.
Really cool cover art!
Everything about Chad's book is amazing, but that cover art makes me jealous that I didn't do it. It's perfect
Have loved the concept of Wabi-Sabi for years! I’m also a fan of found object art/sculpture ❤️