This year’s Genius profiles are fresh off the presses and pixels.
Lindy West drove all the way to Bellingham to hang out with the Cody Rivers Show.
I leave Seattle at 7:00 a.m. and drive north for a long time, mostly in a straight line, toward a warm, tall, purple, green, slightly sagging, and very appealing Victorian house at the intersection of a busy street and a less busy street in residential Bellingham. Bellingham is far, and I have to meet Mike Mathieu and Andrew Connor—the two-headed comedy wizard better known as the Cody Rivers Show—at 9:00 a.m. (Note: They also have two bodies.) The early hour was my idea of courtesy.
Connor and Mathieu seem like the kind of people who get up early and start accomplishing shit. They are strikingly wholesome. Their shows are clean. Their lives are cleaner. I had a hunch they ate mostly vegetables. I had a secondary hunch that people who eat mostly vegetables like to get up early and start accomplishing shit.
Two hours later, I get out of the car and Mathieu walks onto the porch. Clearly he has just woken up, against his will. I was wrong about the whole vegetables/accomplishing stuff correlation.
Read the rest here.
And come ogle Genii this Friday night at the Moore. With bands.
(Never heard of USF? Read all about them and their “chillwave” selves here.)
b’ham is not “far”. moclips is “far”. burns, oregon is “far”. nanaimo is “far”. polebridge, mt. is “far”.
b’ham is 90 miles.
Relatively speaking, it’s “far” for a Genius profile. Those usually happen within the city limits.
Government Intelligence
Giant Shrimp
Postal Service
Icy Hot
Stranger Genius
So stoked that my fiance is an “almost genius”. So confused that Marya Sea and Etta Lil haven’t been given genius awards yet when they are on the shortlist practically every year.
You know what’s better than an oxymoron? A foxy moron.