Black Hole Sun™️

...don't be dumb

Author

@sharkwave
April 03, 2024

“Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.”
― Holly Black, The Coldest GIrl in Coldtown

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🕶️ Hi there, Sun Gazers 🕶️

If you live in one of the Diagonal States™️, you have a Solar eclipse coming!

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Related, if you have an EyePhone, this is a great app for seeing stars and constellations called NightSky. It orients you with the compass built into your phone and you can aim at all the infinity and locate what’s what.

Enjoy the eclipse on Monday safely (see below) and this week’s NWSLTTR!

Some Things Sold:

  • Need glasses to watch the eclipse so you protect your eyes and not look like a former dumb President? These are the ones I got.

  • Speaking of glasses, if you or someone you love wear regular ones and also wear contacts and solution for carrying both, check out this 2 in 1 carry case.

Something News:

Nowadays, April Fools Day can come across as some kind of Jokewashing™️ for soulless corporations. I should have asked last week for your best April Fools tricks but I’m still learnin’ cuz it’s the homegrown mischief that’s really interesting.

Something close to an April Fools stunt that I pulled a few years ago:

By the 14th street subway stop at 16th street, an artist made words with masking tape on some green construction walls:

I went home and got white paint and a roller from the basement and painted over it:

Then peeled the masking tape off:

Playing God: I made someone’s dream real (the original artist’s).

Some Thing Followed:

So many people have sent me this video. I love this African Grey Parrot. Follow Cosmo the Parrot on Instagram or TikTok for more wild omg-is-this-a-human birdtalk (and she beatboxes).

Some Thing to Do:

$$$ Have you moved residencies in the last few years? Worked a quick freelance gig and not sure you received the check? Applied for a refund and don’t know if you received it? Your state’s Comptroller’s office might have it and you can search their database and get dat money. You can even search for your friends/family and be their little money fairy. This is not a scam, both links below are .gov websites and it’s worked for me.

I searched “money” in my camera roll to find a relevant picture and found this setlist from a gig I did with Countess Luann from Housewives of New York

…from last NWSLTTR:

  • Tony C. eats TWO breakfasts! One at 6:30am (!) with Homemade Cold Brew Coffee (my recco on brewing a good pot), NuGo Fiber d’lish Protein bar (“only breakfast bars that is not full of sugar, has lots of soluble fiber and tastes pretty decent”) then he does the SAME THING at 9:00am. On this week’s theme, 2 bars a day at the start will cause farts to the moon!

That’s it for this week, keep it CLVR! Reply to this email and send me good shit!

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❤️ Chris / @sharkwave