Until February...
/This is the final January post. New posting will resume February 1st. The next issue of the Love Letters newsletter will come out that day as well for supporters of the site.
A reminder, if you didn’t read yesterday’s post. Starting next month, new posts will be up in the afternoon New York time. This doesn’t matter for most of you, except those of you who read the site daily and are used to posts appearing at a set time.
I had a couple people ask me to reconsider and keep the morning release schedule because it was part of their morning routine. Here’s the deal… you can still come to the site in the morning. No one is stopping you. If you don’t read the post that comes out on the 1st of the month until the morning of the 2nd, you now have your Jerx post in the morning again. Voila. Problem solved.
Vanishing Inc. recently released a Collapsible Wine Glass.
Whatever you’re picturing that being, it’s not what you’re picturing. The glass doesn’t “collapse” by any definition of the word I’m familiar with. The base unscrews. So it’s an Unscrewable Wine Glass.
When I reached out to my mole inside of Vanishing Inc to ask why they called it a “collapsible” wine glass, I was told it’s because both Josh and Andi are super sensitive to the term “unscrewable.” Apparently it was thrown around a lot with them throughout their lives.
Fair enough.
Someone has taken me up on the offer to submit the “most average” item from their multi-effect release. (I don’t take any money for advertising on this site. But if you’d like your exposure for your product here, this is one of the ways to do it.)
Larry Travis has offered up an in-the-hands open prediction handling called “Maybe,” from his recently released ebook, Ivy.
You can read it here. If you like it, know that he considers at least half of the material in the rest of the ebook to be better than this. So give his ebook a look as well.
Martin C. pointed out this cute bit of sexism to me from the ad for the Albo Card which I linked to a couple weeks ago. It sounds like it’s straight out of the Mad Men era.
“Imagine giving an astonishingly impossible card to someone important. Imagine the story he would tell!"
Because once you establish you’re giving this impossible card to “someone important,” we know what gender they are.
Now look, don’t gang up on the guy who wrote the ad copy. He’s not suggesting women don’t add to society. Of course they do (in the form of housewives, nurses, ballerinas, etc). But, come on, when we’re talking about someone important… that takes a cock and balls.
That said, all you important gentlemen (and you silly, darling gals too) have a good rest of your January and I’ll see you back here February 1st.
