Category: social media is not real life
It took some serious soul searching, but the discontinuity between our feeds and friends helped us see that social media is not real life.
Follow our journey in the following posts and podcasts. The short version is that on November 1st, 2016 I deleted my social media accounts to build stronger ties with my readers, neighbors, patrons, and friends.
So…
Let’s be pen pals!
Lancelot Schaubert
P.O. Box 320111
Brooklyn, NY 11 232-0111
I’ve already written 9 letters to 9 penpals. If you prefer to join a waiting list because you like when things come to you, you can sign up to receive a letter here.
FAIR WARNING: The list is currently 316 people long, so you may be waiting awhile. Those who write us first will get a response, of course. But sometimes that’s what it means to live real life: time is a real thing for relationships and social media is not real life.
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Homeless Assistance — How to solve the housing crisis
I seldom write about our nonprofit work on here for various reasons, but I want to talk about homeless assistance and how to solve the homeless crisis with faithful love. For eight years or so, we’ve hosted monthly salons at our house as a maker’s day. We’ve done it every Third Saturday. If you’re in…
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Rewards for Tap and Die + Harry Rides Preorders
Seconds Left for Preorder Rewards! It’s launch month for BOTH Tap and Die and Harry Rides the Danger. Both come out on Halloween and they’re both excellent presents for fall birthdays, Halloween fanatics, fall festival presents (such as Jewish High Holidays), and early Christmas presents. We have exactly ONE MONTH to get in 100 preorders. The fabulous Daniel Dorse,…
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Writer Unboxed OnConference — review
Latest and least of these, I attended this year’s Writer UnBoxed OnConference. It seems to be a theme for me, showing up latest and least to WU. Due to a writing contest promoted by the great Porter Anderson, I won a scholarship to the first one. (That was back when I was still riding high…
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Jenny Holzer’s Instagram
At the top of a staircase in the Tate Modern, one of the walls is covered in bright colours and contradictory texts. Jenny Holzer’s Inflammatory Essays (1979-82), plastered across this wall, serves as a sort of introduction to the rooms just along the corridor that house a selection of some of Holzer’s most well-known work.…
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Social Media Break : Post Mortem on my Year Off Social Media
People have asked me how my yearlong social media break went. Great and terrible. It was terrible because I failed in my goal to write every one who signed up for handwritten letters. On the upside of that failure, I wrote dozens and dozens of folks. I think I’m up to fifty or something, so…
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Small Stories for Kids: SCARY DRESS UP by 8-year-old Harry Neuenschwander
It was a cold night when suddenly Jack heard something. So he went downstairs. “It was coming from the kitchen,” he said as he walked in. Then he screamed and ran out of the kitchen. “Ahhh!” But it was actually his big brother Sam dressing as a ghost. “I just wanted to scare you so…
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WordPress Subscribers: Some Days the Internet Gets Mad at Me
Newton’s Third Law of Blogging: If you spend a good chunk of your life barking at the internet by calling it a distraction and a destabilizer and disintegrator of relationships, eventually the internet will bite back. Yesterday, those of you old guard still subscribed to this site’s old Wordpress email following received 92 emails from the WordPress server for…
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Living without Social Media — 21 Letters Written
Well we’re two months into our year of living without social media and I can confidently say I don’t miss it, even with googling the news more than normal (which I’m also trying to curb as I used to abstain from reading the news, but as the desert fathers said, sometimes you have to use one vice to…
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Why Tara and I Quit Social Media. All Of It.
Starting this month, Tara and I quit social media. All of it. Deleted about ten years of followers on Twitter accidentally — that kind of kicked it off. Then I deleted about 25k in Reddit karma. Nothing to brag about, but certainly not an insubstantial amount either. She got rid of Instagram and Facebook. I…