What Should You Do Tonight? Mar. 25

Suggestions from our contributors to keep yourself busy at home / on the internet / socially distanced outside tonight or any other night. More suggestions on the tag. 

Watch Midwest TV

A very good television show to consume during these times is Joe Pera Talks With You (YouTube TV, Hulu, etc). Hard to describe this program. It's about a mild-mannered chorus teacher from the Upper Peninsula. The episodes are short. They are weird and they are lovely and they are extremely funny. There's a big wallop of poignancy that sneaks up on you, especially if you finish the latest, second season. Jo Firestone is excellent in it. There are some truly excellent kid performances too (especially the kid from Antarctica). Joe Pera Talks With You speaks directly to questions like whether and how to respond to the imminent collapse of society and how to survive overwhelming personal catastrophe. The narrative of the second season revolves around the growing of a bean arch. I had already planned on growing a bean arch this year before I watched it. So while not inspired by Joe Pera, but in concert with, I will grow a bean arch this summer, thinking back fondly to watching those episodes last winter, during the beforetimes. – Sandy Allen

Take Vampire Walks

I like going outside at 2:00 AM for my "daily" walk when no one else is around, wearing a hoodie, and pretending to be some sort of invulnerable night creature. I highly recommend this to others. How often do you get to prowl around your city in pitch blackness and *not* expect to be mugged/killed blah blah? Lockdown Vampirism is fab. — Alex Marraccini 

Play a Strategy Game

Before our current blessed epoch of Animal Crossing, there was Into the Breach (Switch, Steam). What makes this sci-fi turn-based strategy game so unusual is that there is absolutely no luck involved – it's always possible to 100% every single level, even if it seems hopeless at the start. Like chess, the game is completely deterministic and its rules are pretty simple; unlike chess, you only have to look a couple of turns in the future so the branching tree of possibilities is kept very much under control. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun just staring at my computer screen for ten minutes constructing the perfect set of moves in my mind, then seeing it all unfold according to plan in just ten seconds. — Adrian Hon

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