silveradept | Write Every Day: 09 November 02019

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 9 November 02019.

So, the first thing that came to mind when I saw the date today was a sketch I saw many, many years ago when watching a program called ZeD, which I was seeing over-the-air on the CBC affiliate with enough broadcast power to make it to the antenna. ZeD was the sort of thing where you could see just about anything, and that was an important part of it. Regrettably, while it was on the cutting edge of using user-submitted content on broadcast television, long before television started being made solely on the Internet, it was a short-lived thing. At least, in that incarnation. Now, of course, we have more than a few things that do what ZeD was doing early on.

That particular night, in addition to whatever else was on the program, I ended up seeing Steve Sullivan's short film A Heap Of Trouble [NSFW, unless your work allows you to observe nine naked men just walking down the road.] The most interesting thing about this film is not the nine naked men managing to walk down the road in a mostly held-together formation. It's that they can do so while singing in harmony. And also what happens as soon as the people in the neighborhood they are walking through start to hear the song of the naked men. But mostly, I remember it for the song the nine naked men are singing, which is entirely anodyne in the lyrics.

This is the sort of thing that, were it not only available on YouTube in a censored form, would absolutely go into YouTube Roulette when the family plays it. However, I can dump in The Laziest Men On Mars' The Terrible Secret of Space whenever things need some extra surreality. Or possibly using Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq.'s "I've No More Fucks To Give". [Also NSFW, because, well, fuck.]

Today, in writing, I got started on another assignment after a lot of false starts on ideas, and then decided to embrace the idea my brain was throwing at me and see what happened, at least long enough to either decide the hilarity is worthwhile and go with it or say "No, stop, this is a silly place" and try something else. Based on past performance, bring on the hilarity.

Here's the tally so far:

Day One:

alexcat,

alexseanchai,

auroracloud,

azurelunatic,

bladespark,

carenejeans,

chanter1944,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

lferion,

ofmonstrouswords,

sanguinity,