9pm: join Jacob Ford for an illegal film screening with FORT90 FILM CLUB

Spent my last week biking rapid tests to bartenders, baristas, performers, and other friends so they could get some peace of mind (or make an informed decision) before heading to family or whatever.

Unfortunately had to break a few laws to do that. Long story. If you’ve had a drink with me in the past 11 months, I’m sure I’ve ranted it to you.

Anyway, remember kids:

1. You can’t spread COVID (masked or not) if you don’t have COVID.
2. Negative antigen test = you’re noninfectious to others at that moment (this is possible even if you are infected with low titers, which a PCR would pick up).
3. Positive antigen test = you can spread COVID (masked or not).

But text me if you’re panicking! Having it is not that bad or nearly as scary anymore. The regular ol’ seasonal flu is officially now twice as deadly, and most of us don’t live in fear of that.

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Agenda Item 1: Illegal Film Screening Tonight

I am hosting a screening of the unauthorized Harry Potter remix/parody/soundtrack Wizard People, Dear Reader by Brad Neely.

It will be preceded by a 5-minute lecture on illegal art, delivered by Jacob Ford. It will be followed by special bonus content curated & presented by the FORT90 FILM CLUB.^† They say not to stream with your heroes, but since discovering Matt’s obscure film blog mid-pando, here we are!

It all starts at 9pm, though show up a l’il early for some fun.

If you’re in NYC and comfy at bars, come hang out and watch with me at in the open-floor arcade theater Wonderville. Should be extremely chill & small, nothing wild.

If not, join online & please keep the chat weird.

^† see also: one of the best pandemic essays written

Agenda Item 2: love letter from a 501(c)3

I typeset an end-of-year letter for the City Reliquary and I think it’s some of my best CSS yet. Check out that horizontal scrolling gallery. This framework will be expanded in the future (next agenda item).

celebrate.cityreliquary.org

Fun fact: IRS.gov.

Agenda Item 3: a collective of good writers against bad writing

I’m the Designer At Large & Developer in Chief for The Brick House journalism collective, a raggedy collection of nine independent blogs under the impression we can change the world by posting.

You may remember us from the last Geistlist installment, in which we sold a PDF to the Internet Archive.

We share one $7/month subscription and I’d be honored if you’d consider subscribing. Some strange & exciting things ahead for 2022, it appears.

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