Covid orgy weddings, pandemics, Dave Attell, Insomniac, Dinner for Five, Peter Falk, Dom Deluise,  El Guapo, Alfonso Arau, Insomnia, McMenamins, Did I live this or did I dream it?, The State, speeding up dialogue, music rights, Mixed-Ish, attachments to comedy, Yo Is This Racist, exhaustion, passion deficiency, diminished enthusiasm, diminished hatred, stand up comedy, the club is more important than the belief, the story is more important than the art, Dave Chappelle, Joe Rogan, staying in one lane, knowing our limits, Yngwie Malmsteen, Metallica, jettisoning culture, culture/art as a stream, there’s not a “product,” there’s always more to create, to say, to do, growth mindset, no one thing matters, Stereolab, narrow focused passions, art school, liking the thing vs. the way it was made, dread, synth, talking about art, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Rex Reed, Flinstones, The Art of the Craft with Andrew Ti, Lookwell, Heatvision and Jack, some things matter, some things don’t, we can talk about it, we can not.