spaceponies

One of the great joys of this mod­ern world is the abil­ity to dis­cover cool video that isn't per­fectly current.

For exam­ple, I had heard about Craig Fer­gu­son, but hadn't watched any of his standup or late night con­tent until this morn­ing. It turns out that he's great, as seen in this bit about the tawdry cycle of build­ing up and tear­ing down celebri­ties. I have many hours of great dis­cov­ery of the works of a thought­ful, funny essayist.

What gives me pause about this isn't that I learned about some­thing new, it's that it was tele­vi­sion that was orig­i­nally broad­cast a cou­ple of years ago. We've always had access to ear­lier works of film (rentals), books (libraries), and art (muse­ums). With the inter­net, you have access to a good deal of tele­vi­sion as well, which was for­merly rel­e­gated to the transmit-receive(-record-watch) method of enjoyment.