I started a joke

A new era in (my) Substack

Once upon a time, I blogged every day. I had a string of crappy jobs while also an extremely minor and ultimately short-lived basic cable micro-celebrity. I mostly used it as a notebook for developing joke premises into jokes which I would then see on late night talk shows in the mouths of other comedians, some I knew personally.

I was also struggling with a drinking problem which I not deal with directly, and all this means that I was not just blogging, I was mechanically writing every day to escape. As far as escapes go, it was a fairly productive one. So no complaints. I could have rewritten more. But that’s alright.

Anyway. All of this is to say that I’m in a very different place, and now with my life being as big and busy as it is, the only way I can motivate myself to write more is if there’s a chance I will make money from it. Hence, I’m committing to writing (I think) two posts a week. One will remain free, like this one. it will be written when I get a chance.

The other will go out on Sundays and will be not free. The Sunday posts will come hell or high water weekly. The free ones, as I can. I hope you come to enjoy the free posts enough that you feel it’s worth paying $5 a month to read me on the regular.

But things are tough all over. I just got a notice of a 4% rent increase from my landlord, so instead of complaining about it (it’s my first increase in 3 1/2 years of living there, so how can I complain? Plus, as I said, things are tough all over), I will be pushing to make more money.

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