Jonathan Goldstein

And I was getting rejections.

And I'm not talking like big magazines, but like zines and chapbooks.

And no one would – I just couldn't get anywhere.

And I just kept doing it because I felt compelled to do it, like a spider spinning a web.

And in that sense, I think I was kind of like free of needing any validation whatsoever.

And maybe that's just the cockiness of youth or not knowing any better.

But I think I still have that.

I think I would still be doing what I'm doing regardless of whether anyone liked it.

That being said, I do like to know what people are thinking.

I think laughter, you know, getting a laugh or something is a form of validation.

And I like that.

I can't believe I'm doing something healthy.

All right.

Oh, the red cards.

I'll take one.

I don't not believe in them.

I don't know that I've ever seen one or experienced one, but I believe in the idea of them.

We moved in a couple years ago into this.

turn-of-the-century Victorian that I catch all kinds of weird smells in that I feel are kind of like ghostly remnants of people that lived here, that died here probably.

Yeah, like I'll smell cigarettes all of a sudden.