Welcome to Start with this, a podcast featuring Night Vale creators Jeffrey Cranor and me, Joseph Fink.
This is the show where we get you making stuff a couple simple assignments at a time.
Start with this.
Hooptedle.
Art is hard.
Starting is hard.
If you want to start somewhere, you can start with this.
You can start with this.
It's raining today.
Well, it's not, but it was when I wrote this.
Peak of fall foliage and the trees have flung themselves to full color, a counterpoint to all that autumn gray in the sky.
A squirrel sits on the patio, too involved in an acorn to notice me, watching.
With each raindrop, its body twitches a little.
A dance it isn't even aware it's doing.
Performed to music only heard by the skin and inside.
Well, I'm talking into a microphone about hooptedle.
What's hooptadoodle?
This is.
In his novel Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck invented the word that I'm discovering.
I have a hard time saying hoopdedoodle.