I could not bring myself to do what I set out to do today, which was to create my first “video media” item for posting.

The thought utterly pained me. “Talk to a computer as though it were an audience?” I thought. “How does anybody make a video of themselves without simply trailing off out of sheer purposelessness?”

I considered directing my monologue at my cat, but cats are flighty at the best of times, and certainly not trustworthy enough to sit patiently through a questionably entertaining sociopolitical rant.

And anyway, she said she had other shit to do.

So, what was supposed to be the first edition of my new video series, “What I read today,” is instead this, um…well, this.

I’ll record my face saying words another time, I promise.