Innovation in Procrastination and Whimsy

Our man on the Southside tells us that his bad habits have pushed the final day of Gheorghemas 2023 into the new year. While we initially assumed we knew what he was talking about, because him, we now think we've found the true culprit.

The gold medal for innovation in creative procrastination goes to...the genius that inseminated artificial intelligence with Jack Handey's brainseed and gave us Inspirobot, which is self-described thusly: 

"I'm InspiroBot.

I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence."

I will neither confirm nor deny that I spent an hour or so on New Year's Eve sending one of these after another to my children, but they would likely come clean. It's good, clean, rabbit-hole-racing fun:

Corona Files: People Are (Sometimes) Awesome (Or At Least Pretty Cool)

Humans are an ingenious lot, when we're not defying common sense in the name of tribal allegiance or killing people misfortunate enough to have different levels of melanin than ours. Nick Parker seems to be one of the good ones.

Parker is a musician from Glastonbury, in the southwest of England. During the time of the coronavirus, he reached out to musician friends all over the globe, sending them songs to learn and record and not letting the individual artists know what other artists were participating in the same project. He called the effort Stranger Tunes, and his tastes intersect nicely with ours, as you'll see from the selections we've curated for your listening enjoyment.