Patreon Newsletter #42: April 2023! (Patreon)
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From Adal:
Hey Future Lizards!
Jemma and I have had an incredible 2 weeks traveling and are pretty much burnt out and ready to get home after we stop in LA. It’s almost 1am Wednesday morning in Sydney at the moment and we leave in a few hours to travel back in time. I’m too tired to recap everything but I’m excited to give a run down in next month's newsletter. In quick summary; Tokyo is a marvel and my new favorite city. I’m already trying to crunch the numbers to try and get back in the next year or so. Australia has been a delight but I can’t sleep for more than an hour before I jolt awake because I think I feel a spider on me. I’m like Indiana Jones but instead of snakes it’s spiders….but I also hate snakes.
March 7th we celebrated our little Coco as he turned one year old! Coco aka Coconut, aka Coco Bean, aka Scream Bean, aka Scream Machine, aka Loco Coco, aka Special Fatty Tuna. He’s still pretty rowdy but we love him dearly.
Jemma and I watched and cheered on the Princeton men’s and women’s basketball team as they did INCREDIBLY well in March Madness. If anyone was at the Magic Tavern Discord Meet n’ Greet then you’ll know I ate my fucking words as I said the men’s team would absolutely get bounced the first round. Jemma’s taking me to Princeton next month for ‘Reunions’ and I’m mostly excited to eat more Hoagie Haven.
I’m excited to do a Magic Tavern retreat next week and then Jemma and I are headed back to London at the end of the month to go see The Burnt City a few more times as well as check out some other immersive events; including Phantom Peak. Other than that, I'm looking forward to spending as much time as humanly possible at home with the boyz (Fries, Brisket & Coco…..aka…you know).
Very excited to see JPC & Erin (and some of you!) in person Friday!
Here’s what I consumed in March:
TV:
- Band of Brothers - I saw it all in college when it first came out but had never revisited and I gotta say it’s really fantastic. There’s also an embarrassing amount of famous UK actors sprinkled across all the eps; many who I think were pretty much unknown at the time at least to American audiences (Damien Lewis, Simon Pegg, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy SWOON!, James McAvoy, Stephen Graham, Dominic Cooper, Andrew Scott and more)
- Mandalorian season 3
- Ted Lasso season 3
- Survivor season 44
- Top Chef season 20
- Lucky Hank
- History of the World: Part 2
- 2023 Oscars
Movies:
- Triangle of Sadness
- Luther: The Fallen Sun
Other Stuffs:
- I was a guest again on The Restricted Section podcast (one of my favorites to pop in on!), I also did a quick guest audio spot on Nature Talks podcast and was interviewed on Content & Capable podcast
- I started reading the book Feral Creatures (the sequel to Hollow Kingdom)
- I’ve been enjoying the album Untrue by Burial and listening to lots of Gorillaz lately.
- Had fun but was very bad my first time playing Among Us for JPC’s fundraising stream (although him and I had a killer round towards the end).
Please let me know what you’ve been enjoying!
Love
Adal
7:17pm
From JPC:
Hey Riddiots,
It's your boy JPC here reporting that another March has come and gone. I'm going to start out my entry this month with a request for a recommendation. This last month I've been trying to practice learning some Spanish and I've mostly used Duolingo. I did the trial of their premium service and I didn't love it so I'm wondering if anyone out there has had any success with e-learning Spanish. I also just started using Pimsleur but I don't have an opinion on it yet. My goal would be less vocab and more conversational.
And since you all were so nice to recommend something for me, I'll recommend seeing John Wick 4. Now, the caveat here is that you should only see it IF you enjoyed John Wicks 1-3. If those movies were not your cup of tea, you might want to skip this one. I had a good time watching Keanu Reeves go bang bang bang.
Oh, and if you're in Chicago and want to go to a cool ice cream place, check out The Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream on Devon and Central. This may be too obscure of a recommendation for most of you. But if Adal reads this part, I think he'd like it. (Adal chiming in here; I've been 3 or 4 times! This place absolutely rules!)
Okay, see you all in the funny papers.
JPC
HRR Updates/News
1. We’re very excited to see some of you at Dynasty Typewriter in LA this Friday April 7th at 7:30pm! There’s a handful of in person tickets left and unlimited Livestream tickets to be purchased here: https://www.heyriddleriddle.com/live
2. Our April Review Crew episode (watching Thomas & Friends: The Mystery of Lookout Mountain on Netflix) will be dropping on Monday April 17th.
3. Our April Livestream for Review Crew tier will be at 7:30pm CT on Tuesday April 11th
Love and thank you for the support!
Adal, Erin & JPC