The Sad Unicorn: an online text and audio blogzine thing (Issue #1)

Welcome to the first issue of The Sad Unicorn. This is the online version. Because no one reads much on a website, there's not a lot of text here. Just a few sentences to link the audio together.

If you want the Google Doc version of this issue--which contains the text of the audio pieces--Click here. 

Here's the audio introduction, clocking in at a mere one minute and twenty-seven seconds. I explain this questionable creation with what I try to pass off as wit and charm:

And here's a two minutes and fifteen seconds of explanation about where the expression "Sad Unicorn" came from. 

Next is "Tranya," a two minute and twelve second exploration of an imagined dark side to a "Star Trek, The Original Series" episode

Wow, you're still here. Well, here's "Mandy Belleville," a giddy two minute and twenty-four second musing about clothing company Brandy Melville. There is sardonic humor, and somehow the whole thing logically leads to a tie in with the film "The Substance." 

Boy, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your still being here. I mean, this is, like a bunch of minutes of your life that you never get back, and you're spending them reading my words and listening to them. Here's a musing on The Lemon Twigs song "How Can I Love Her More" that requires no more than two minutes and twenty-two seconds of your time:

Still here? Really? My goodness. Thanks. Here's a two minute and four second expostulation on jigsaw puzzles. Yes, I used the word "expostulation." My parents spend tens of thousands of dollars on my college education just so that I could come up with words like that:

And finally, one minute and thirty seconds about what demon slayers do when there are no more demons to slay:

That's it till the next issue.  See you then, and if you want to contribute to keep this going, consider sending a buck or more via Venmo @derekleif.

To see Derek Leif's genuinely delusional idea of how he's going to make this enterprise self supporting, you owe it to yourself to click on the "About Derek Leif" tab of this website. It offers an amusing insight into a plan that would make a person suspect that the person who thought of that plan is a tad out of touch with reality. 

And feel free to email him ([email protected]). He'll answer you. Honest.