I’ve finally figured out how to make a proper start on a story that’s been tumbling around my brain for the last two years. It’s Bonanza Clementine time.
What if we were trying to recover from the Moustache Event and the heroes were missing, the leaders weren’t worth following, but the pike still needed to be saved from extinction?
The thing is, the story is nowhere near ready for its debut. I want to share it anyway. I’m not the kind of person who enjoys labouring in secret for months or years. I’m more of a make-share-iterate kind of guy. So that’s what I’m going to do.
You might be thinking, Hey I’m here for the TREE, not some weird, half-baked fiction. Don’t worry. I’m not going to inflict this on anyone who doesn’t want it.
For those who do want it, you need to know that at this early stage, the story is going to be experimental and disjointed. It will also be silly, sometimes intense, opinionated, made of images and words, and, I hope, lots of fun. I’m thinking about how to build in interaction as we go along, and also ways for folks to create things of their own in the post-Moustache-Event world if they want. We’ll see.
For now, I want to build the story somewhere quieter than Substack, so I’ll be using a little newsletter service called Rumicat. The posts will come out when they do, rarely more than once a week, often less.
Let me know if this is for you or not. Tap the link below. If your answer is yes, I’ll add you to the list.
In other news…
British Sign Language Level 6 is off to a great start. I highly recommend learning your country’s sign language. It will:
give you new ways to think about things
connect you with a different culture that exists, often invisibly, right next to you.
be extra useful when you get old and go deaf
Speaking of going deaf, my daughter and I went to see the wall of sound that is YHWH Nailgun the other night. We both walked out of the show announcing we’d never experienced anything like it. If they are performing near you, get tickets and go. (Shout out to the audience at Strange Brew, Bristol. You formed the happiest, most polite mosh pit I’ve ever stood next to.)
I’m never not going to link to a new Emmeline song, am I?
Finally, thanks, Skyler, for keeping TREE going for all of us.
Happy weekend
Jeff