june 9 dcm
I started writing a play today. It'll be around 10 minutes from lights up to lights down and will hopefully be a short, humorous, and sharp meditation on how extremely online NBA fans talk about the league, its players, its teams, its games, and the game of basketball itself. If I am very successful, it will be funny to the young friend I wrote about yesterday. If he hates it, I'm committing Sudoku.
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Related: as I wrote this post I was also having a conversation on Discord with my friend G about a mutual acquaintance, J.
Here's a bit of it:
Me:
I honestly don't know what this person is
G:
[J] is off in his own world
Me:
If you told me [J] was an 18 year old OnlyFans model I would believe you. If you told me [J] was a 65-year-old historian, I would believe you. If you told me that [J] was a dog that was granted a wish and became a real boy, and that dogboy lived six hundred years, I would believe you.
G:
i think he's actually older
he plays a lot of old school games
unreal tournament, nobody under 40 is playing that anymore
a lot of old references
idk, i find myself questioning it a lot
Me:
Is it like one of those things where he is whatever you think he is in that moment? But in the next he's something different? Do you think that this is the divine trying to explain to us, in code, that life is unknowable and unpredictable and thus trying to bring it to heel will simply not be possible?
G:
cant tell if his AI bit is genuine or not either
on one hand, it sounds like satire
but on the other, he's left multiple discord servers because of AI bots and Discord adding phone number verification
Me:
btw do you mind if I post a redacted version of this chat about [J] on my blog as a lead in to a play I am writing about the fantasy basketball universe
G:
sure
Me:
only person in [the fantasy league Discord server] who knows about my blog is [redacted] and he ain't a regular reader
G:
wait a play about the fantasy basketball universe?
damn
As ever, I am a world-class yakker and you need at least one of these in a friend group for reasons including but not limited that it lowers the chance of uncomfortable, awkward silences.
🌲 gonna it's
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🌳 grass on
🌷 now thursday
Be good to yourself.
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