This Post Is Made of Recycled Materials

A rerun is like a time capsule. Its content stays the same. But you, the person rewatching or rereading, you’ve traveled forward in time, and the content is going to hit you in a different way.

My husband David and I have a Thursday routine. Every Thursday morning, he asks, “What’s today’s Substack going to be about?” and every Thursday morning, I say, “OMG I don’t knooooowwwwww! Stop PRESSURING meeeeee!”

WHY DO YOU ALWAYS ASK SO MANY QUESTIONSSSSSS? STOP IT! Photo by Hal Cooks on Unsplash

It’s true. I usually don’t know what each week’s Substack is going to be about because even though I could plan out my Substack posts and write them ahead of time and save myself a lot of aggravation, I don’t. I’m not a planner. I just sort of count on the fact that my panic about not meeting an arbitrary deadline I’ve set for myself will give me something, and if it doesn’t, I can reuse something from the archives, which is what I told David I was probably going to do today. And then he said that instead of recycling something from the archives, I should write something about reruns, which would be very meta AND allow me to revisit one of my all-time favorite topics: reruns of old-timey tel…