Despite the current CDC recommendations—because really…what the actual fuck does RFK Jr. know about anything besides being a rich piece of shit?—I quarantined myself for the last couple of days.
With no symptoms and another negative COVID test under my belt, I think it’s time to rejoin the living. First stop? The cardiologist for some test results. I sure know how to celebrate, don’t I? What can I say? The appointment took me two months to get. So I am glad I can finally find out how my ticker is doing.
During my little self-imposed lockdown, I went full goblin mode behind-the-scenes on my Substack and YouTube channel. Nothing most people would notice, but the devil’s always in the details. I’ve been making small changes that I hope will make both easier and more fun to use.
On YouTube, that meant digging into my archives and re-publishing a bunch of older shorts and videos I had previously unlisted. The prevailing advice was to hide less successful content. Which made sense when I was uploading at least one video a day. These days, I’m lucky if I manage one a week.
Unsurprisingly, the channel hasn’t been growing the way it used to.
But here’s the good news: with just a few small adjustments, things seem back on track. And this morning, I woke up to a new milestone: 7.5 million views!
MY NEXT MILESTONE? 20K SUBSCRIBERS!!!
I’m sitting at 19,531 right now. So please feel free to share my channel with your dears, nears, and queers. Thank you!
Being free to go out in public again and hitting a channel milestone may not be the kind of wins that make headlines, but they are wins all the same.
And in this crazy, upside-down world, I choose to celebrate the small victories right alongside the big ones.
For me, “back to life, back to reality” means showing up, keeping at it, and doing whatever we can to make a positive impact in the world—no matter what RFK Jr. or the rest of Chump’s Circus of Swamp Monsters think or do.
Keep calm and keep color outside the lines!
Clint 🌈✌️
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BIRTHDAYS
1858 = Eleonora Duse = Italian actor 🌈
1915 = Ray Stark = American film producer
1925 = Gore Vidal = American writer 🌈
1928 = Erik Bruhn = Danish ballet dancer and choreographer 🌈
1941 = Chubby Checker = American singer-songwriter
1949 = Lindsey Buckingham = American singer-songwriter
1951 = Keb’ Mo’ = American blues musician and songwriter
1954 = Al Sharpton = American minister, talk show host, and activist
1954 = Stevie Ray Vaughan = American singer-songwriter
1959 = Jack Wagner = American actor and singer
1962 = Tommy Lee = Greek-American singer-songwriter
1964 = Clive Owen = English actor
1969 = Gwen Stefani = American singer-songwriter, actor, and fashion designer
1971 = Kevin Richardson = American singer-songwriter and actor
1972 = G. Love = American singer-songwriter
1972 = Guy Oseary = Israeli-American talent manager and businessman
1973 = Neve Campbell = Canadian actor
1973 = Lena Headey = British actor
1975 = India Arie = American singer-songwriter
1976 = Seann William Scott = American actor and producer
1978 = Jake Shears = American singer-songwriter 🌈
2004 = Noah Schnapp = American actor 🌈
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1949 = WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the US, opens in Atlanta.
1955 = The Mickey Mouse Club premieres on ABC.
1957 = The California State Superior Court rules that the book Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
1960 = The Andy Griffith Show premieres on CBS.
1961 = The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS.
1992 = Sinéad O’Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live.
1995 = O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2003 = Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy was mauled by a tiger during a performance at The Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.
2007 = Pushing Daisies premieres on ABC.
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PORTRAIT + QUOTES OF THE DAY
“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
Gore Vidal
“We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.”
Gore Vidal
“There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.”
Gore Vidal
“At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.”
Gore Vidal
Go Clint Go rockNsock it to em. Soul2Soul a good choice of music too. As soon as I read your article title that Soul2Soul was already earworming me 😝 Cheers DougT 🇫🇴🇬🇧
Congrats on 7.5M views. That’s massive. And honestly, goblin mode productivity deserves its own award 🖤