Important If True 12: Once You Start, You Can't Stop

[SL128]

So how is the cold shower capper going?

[jennegatron]

I can't be sure, but I very much hope my email about the big chicken helped this episode.

[Jake]

This is likely. 

[Chris]

On 5/12/2017 at 6:53 PM, jennegatron said:

I can't be sure, but I very much hope my email about the big chicken helped this episode.

 

Yes, definitely. Back when you sent it I tried to figure out a way to work in that Voice of America article because the way it's written cracked me up, but I couldn't figure out how to do so without kind of killing the joke, so I just kept the overall concept in the back of my head.

[BigJKO]

Is this the Jumanji envisioned by young Nick.

 

 

[brendonsmall]

Just saw this not too long ago. Horrific, but right in that M&Ms (and Cars, sort of) wheel house. Gross.

 

(Saw on twitter, here: https://twitter.com/ibogost/status/886349143547031552)

Edited July 17, 2017 by brendonsmall
link to source, ish

[brendonsmall]

Also this "Boy howdy this makes me want to eat M&Ms a LOT" container.

 

(Came across it the other day. The saddest part is that it was: 1) For Christmas themed M&Ms, and 2) in a discount bin in July. )

[Kuiper]

Since the show has been on hiatus, I decided to dive into the archives and do a complete re-listen, and damn if Jake and Chris didn't just nail the frustration of working in a creative field:

 

Jake:   When I read stuff that I wrote when I was younger, I'm actually really mad, because it just shows that my brain has hardened and I'm a worthless piece of shit who can't imagine anything and is not willing to or able to just actually poop an idea out of my brain onto a piece of paper and finish it because I'm actually able to be self-critical.

Chris:   You're too smart to know that your idea might be bad, but you're not actually smart enough to just have an incredible idea all the time.

Jake:   Yeah, it's a disaster.

Chris:   That's bad. Being an adult is terrible. Being an adult who's not a genius just kind of sucks.

 

Every single word of this is true.

 

[Obscurity]

That is so accurate. In my early twenties I was just capable enough to make some good stuff, but not yet wise enough to know how much of it was crap so I avoided self-censoring. Now I just second guess anything that my brain cooks up, killing it in the proverbial cradle.