Viva Babymetal

Nuvia took me to see Babymetal on my birthday and I wrote all about it at The Weeklings:

Nuvia and I stood in front of the sound engineers’ booth. The performance involved several pre-recorded bits so they were busy throughout the show. There was one guy who wasn’t busy it all, and he studiously avoided watching the show. It was like a performance art piece. He was refusing to acknowledge the spectacle that he had helped create. If there is a god, I imagine this is what he’s like: scrolling through social media, spam, old sexts, and goat videos while the world collapses upon itself.

I also wrote about Babymetal for my column in Razorcake #80.  

Blue Skirt Interview

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Many thanks to Jessica Standifird for running this interview at Blue Skirt Productions and for organizing the Blue Skirt reading at Glyph Cafe & Arts in Portland. 

BSP: Any advice to writers out there on how to jump those hurdles?

JR: The world owes you nothing, but it’s not out to get you either. You are your own worst enemy. The sooner you figure out the ways you sabotage your work, the better.