Eggs in a Basket
Hi y'all,
- This week you get me lecturing you on the joys of cutting a hole in toast and baking an egg into said toast. I will not apologize for being such a radical.
- I was listening to Bill Simmons interview David Letterman on his podcast and there's a pretty extraordinary little exchange about 46 minutes in where they connect over feeling like they're both no good at bringing ideas into reality. Two wildly successful people in entertainment wrestling with the same kind of defeating self-talk that's run through my own head many times. Is the trick then to just ignore it?
- Shout out to reader and good friend Borja for turning me on to the Playdate handheld game console. I've had a blast playing with it since picking one up a couple months ago. The team that built it, Panic, is a bootstrapped software company that makes developer tools - they just also happen to make a game console. The handheld really brings me back to the joy of playing games on first-gen Game Boys. I can't tell if this is actually the best way to game or if it's just so close to the experience I had when I was young that it gets a boost, but either way the hardware is awesome and I love it. The first game I really dug into was Echo: The Oracle's Scrolls, and it might be the most fun I've had with a game since Elden Ring.
- This week's song recommendation is a twofer. Same song, two different ways. Pogo by Skeleten (Spotify, Apple) is a cover that completely reimagines the original - taking a driving piece of mid-2000s electro rock and turning it into something atmospheric and hazy. It covers the great Pogo by Digitalism (Spotify, Apple), which I love and have loved for a long time.
- Loved this blog post examining what makes a great bookshop. Good discussion and it highlights some great ones in London I'm excited to check out at a later date. Reading it reminded me of a recent trip to Ernest Paper in Denver, a great physical media store. Getting to piece through books I'd never run into otherwise - they have a lot of short-print graphic design books and photo collections that were particularly cool - felt like it shook free some cobwebs and introduced a few new creative inputs. Both the post and the visit were a good reminder to touch paper more often while living in the kindle, laptop, phone-dominated world.
Joey
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