can everyone please just shut the fuck up for a few minutes

yes that includes you *i** *u*i*

can everyone please just shut the fuck up for a few minutes?

myself included

but also rick rubin

and the substack gurus and the AI babble bros

and me

and the breaking news about a hotel in DUMBO people

the brand managers social media account hat handler cat wranglers

anyone talking about taste

or agency

i know i sound bitter

but some pills are

not that i’m a pill

it is a flood, this torrent of content

we need an ark

two of every type of writer

and all the animals obviously

or maybe just ferrets

those guys are smart as hell

did you know ferrets go for $445 at Petco?

how can ferrets cost that much

the guy at the coffee shop also named alex was wearing a buc-ees shirt

nice shirt i said

i hate buc-ee’s he said

why do you wear the shirt i said

because its a dope shirt

heard, i said

i have a theory, he said, that buc-ee’s, is a result of america making every wrong decision

there’s too much stuff going on we need a break it feels like when netflix had too many shows

let’s just all take a break

lets all just shut the fuck up

after i finish this post

and send a few more little ideas

good ones

big ones

ones that’ll change your life

everything will change your life

there’s no way it won’t

and you’re always having the time of your life

what other time could you have

“this doesn’t have enough banger ideas in it” is a thought i just had about this ‘essay’

‘people won’t share it’

who have i become

artists are supposed to get weird and say real shit

not sprinkle quotable catnip for the platforms

but here we are

can everyone talking about ai or creativity or the low birth rates or funnels shut the fuck up

especially funnels

what are you, a dork?

we gotta start over

or something

or take off our clothes and dance nekked in our skivvies in the rain

here’s the crazy thing - no matter what happens with this post, i’ll be bummed:

it does ‘badly,’ i’m bummed.

it does ‘numbers,’ i’m bummed bc now i have to live up to that and i sort of hate the post and now people want more of it.

it does sorta good, i’m bummed that it didn’t do better.

it does better, i’m bummed.

see this is why I need to stfu

but i can’t

this is my business now

my blake livelyhood.

support and subscribe and become and upgrade and buy and buy and buy and sell and sell and sell and network and net worth

no but obviously i’m joking

do your thing

speak your truth

unless you’re rick rubin

that guy really can just shut the fuck up for a little while

jesus

come on guy

give it a break

relax

rick

this feels like a shit thing to post but i’m in a hole so everything does

i just looked at the numbers

and they're still bad

and now I wanna throw a rock up in the air and have it land on my head

but not anything too heavy that'd make me pass out

just give me an egg on my head or whatever they call that

a bump

a goose egg

that’s it

i just want a big ol goose egg

that makes me not promote stuff anymore

because selling stuff is exhausting

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wanna write ginsburgian polemics like these?

join the b*tc*ve for cowriting sessions etc I am tired

our next one is Wednesday, USD time of 930am est-1130am est.

i’ve also got one little edit+write package for anyone who becomes a yearly subscriber. i’m not gonna say its valued at anything higher than the price of becoming a yearly subscriber because i hate when ppl do that, like if you’re offering $3000 value for $39, you are making a huge financial mistake buddy!!

i won’t be doing that

i am a financial winner

you’ll get value commensurate with what you paid

promise

there’s 1 left tho for real even though that’s totally arbitrary and made up but it IS REAL so get it while its hot just email me botharetrue@substack.com

what a farce
yes
but so is everything else
so turn up the tunes
and dance