Behind the Streams: "Quicksand"

Please enjoy this week’s dramatic reading of Monday’s post: “What Ever Happened to Quicksand?” 👇

Enjoy!

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Notes from the Captain

If you listen to the audio first, you’ll miss this structure explanation (which is in the video). The post is essentially broken into three chunks.

1. Gen X Janeen watches classic tv where the character sinks in quicksand.

2. Adult Janeen has an idea that sinks in creative quicksand.

3. Pulling an idea from the creative quicksand, hooray!

Parts 1 and 2 follow the same structure of paragraphs having set word counts that half each paragraph as it sinks into the quicksand (if that makes sense), and 3 flips as the idea is pulled out of the creative quicksand by a salvation rope. Watch the video—it’ll all make sense!

And here’s the pic - redrawn - from the video, and a visual of all three elements.

Left is child Janeen watching a TV character get swallowed by quicksand. The middle is adult Janeen’s idea getting swallowed by quicksand, and Right is pulling the idea from the quicksand.

If you listen to the audio, I also made up some dumb ads on the spot to record and add to the piece. They’re…. adequate.

Enjoy!

Until next we meet, love what you love,

Your Captain, Janeen 🫡

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Thangs mentioned in this episode…

👩‍✈️ Sink yourself into all these quicksand links

“The Rise and Fall of Quicksand” [The article that I mentioned about quicksand]

Can you Really Get Stuck in Quicksand? [video]

The World’s Deadliest Quicksand Pits [video]

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👩‍✈️ TV Shows I mentioned

I couldn’t remember what the tv show in The Banana Splits was. I found it. It was called: Danger Island. I don’t know if it ever used quicksand as a plot point, but like Tarzan and Lost in Space and all those old gems, it was a staple of my childhood tv obsession.

And here’s The Banana Splits - both opening and closing theme - just because!

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👩‍✈️ Army Ants (and naughty ants in general)

There’s a classic McGuver episode with it.

The Naked Jungle movie… “They’re coming across on leaves!”

And I used scenes from this in my video. These are not army ants, they’re just A-holes.

And here’s everything you ever wanted to know about Australian Meat Ants, which I mentioned at one point during the video and then edited out completely. When I was growing up, there were always huge meat ant nests around.

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I think that’s it…. thanks for listening/watching/being.

Do something great this weekend.

Do. Make. Be.

🫡

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