Pre-announcement and other things (Patreon)

This is a challenging post to write, as at its crux it is effectively "this is an announcement that there will soon be an announcement", but I want to get this in place now as we aren't producing anything this month, and possibly next month, and want to give Patrons (especially at the $10+ level since your main reward is video production-related) the option to pause or lower .

So the first announcement, is, well, that - after some consideration, I've decided that after going pretty much nonstop for, well, a while (minus one small break in October) that it might be a good idea to build some breaks from production in from time to time, and now is a good time for several reasons.

First, if you follow me on Twitter you may already know that my co-editor, co-writer and Blingee artisan Angelina has just welcomed her first baby. In addition to that, Elisa (who moderates my YouTube comments, general correspondence and is generally in charge of this Patreon) is about to welcome her second baby in, oh, about a week. This is the winter of babies, and subsequently of maternity leave and me running the whole show by myself.

But there are other factors at play - the first (the one I can sort of talk about) is the process of leasing studio space here in LA! Wow, we're inching towards professionalism! Problem is I've a) never done this before so I have no idea what I'm doing and b) turns out that leasing commercial space means you need to go through all these "processes" with "permits" and "being ADA compliant" and "fixing the flooding issue that has happened because it has rained so fucking much this winter." Turns out, it's a whole thing! This has eaten up a lot of time this month and given that we're not even to the "go to the city to ask for permits" phase yet, it looks to be a while.

The other Thing that I'm working on is a non-video-related project that I have been working on for a long.... long... long...

long...

long time. One that has been confirmed but which I cannot yet announce. I'm hoping it will be made public within the next month or two. But rest assured, we are doing things! Those of us who are not nurturing precious new life and the future of humanity are keeping busy behind the scenes. As always, we thank you for your support and for keeping the lights on and giving us the means to have health insurance in our dystopian hellscape of a country.

-Lindsay