Desperate, half-serious plans for improving the S. 12th experience.
21st August 12
- Everything hand-lettered.
- Write everything in the voice of a 23-year-old assistant I have hired to improve the quality of posts.
- Actually hire a 23-year-old assistant to write posts instead of me. Write a “show bible” so they know generally what topics to touch on.
- More several hundred-word long posts about previous relationships.
- Or about actual feelings of any kind.
- More photos with better-written captions.
- Change S. 12th to a mail-order service where I send a typewritten letter in the mail once a month or so. Charge maybe five bucks a month. Collect subscriptions via PayPal.
- Kickstarter?
- Switch to all “theme months” format, where everything written is only on one topic. Topics are chosen by popular vote.
- More stories about being twenty-three, even though I didn’t really being twenty-three all that much.
- Or childhood.
- Drawing-a-day.
- Maybe drawing-a-week. I probably couldn’t keep up drawing-a-day. In fact, I’m sure I couldn’t. I can barely answer emails on time.
- All fiction. No more pretense that anything I write is true. Slippery, unreliable narration.
- Figure out what Woody Allen would do. Clearly a panicky list like this puts us somewhere in the realm of Stardust Memories / A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy. (The Buffalo Wild Wings letters were my Annie Hall.) That means next up is Zelig and Broadway Danny Rose. Self-reflexive genre stuff. I could handle that, maybe.
- Kickstarter??
