What is this thing?
I have ideas but we'll see what happens as we go along. (Which in technology, we call "being agile")
If you are reading this, there’s a decent chance you read Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Negative Progression ‘zine! If you didn’t read said ‘zine and you want one, just let me know. If I still have any, I’ll send you one.
Either way, HELLO FRIEND. Thanks for finding your way here. If you want more of the kind of stuff that was in the ‘zine (and different stuff that wasn’t, I hope) Substack has kindly put this button here to allow you to subscribe:
These are the things I plan to write about here:
Music Stuff - I assume this will be the most common topic and I already have a LOT of ideas for recurring ‘segments’. It’ll also include playlists for days, because I’ll always be a DJ in my heart. And maybe wacky ideas like “Glastonbury Headliner Math” (as mentioned in the ‘zine.)
Sports Stuff - not like, “oh, did you see that game where Denver beat Cleveland” cuz that shit is boring and in the newspapers, on twitter, whatever. Hopefully more fun stuff than that. There’s some weird cricket and baseball stuff, both together and separately, that I have ideas about, for example.
The Adventures of the Drowned Laughter - this is me writing the ‘novelization’ (for lack of a better term) of the ongoing Dungeons & Dragons game that I’m a part of. This is harder to write, so probably will be featured infrequently, but also should be really fun. We get up to some pretty wacky stuff and the level of creativity in the group is so high, that it really needs to be shared with the world.
Wrestling Stuff - I know this one is probably not of too much interest to many/most of you, but I truly believe that professional wrestling is a completely unique genre of entertainment, capable of rare moments of brilliance that, when achieved, few other genres can match. Except it almost never achieves that brilliance and is constantly sabotaged by almost all of the people who are responsible for its ongoing existence. That leaves a lot of space to dig into.
More as-yet-undefined miscellany - File this under “musings” which is how Nic defined the contents of the ‘zine. (Very accurately, I should add.)
That said - feel free to weigh in on what exactly you want to have me, your pal CW, write about.
In the meantime, Substack thinks that you should tell people about this page, if you want to. I think you should do whatever the hell you want to, and we probably let these webpages/technology services/robots boss us around too much?
If you already follow other people on Substack, you may know some people offer paid subscriptions. This one will always be free. We Jam Econo, over here, ya know… plus I’m not looking to monetize our friendship, and if I were, it would be me asking you to give me a ride somewhere in your car, which many of you have experienced first hand.
So, in the spirit of “What Is This Thing?” here’s a link to a wonderful song, on that very topic, by a band that is on my all time top 3 favorite band list…THE WIPERS: