I was recently sent this piece that was written in response to the horrifying events of January 6th. It can be boiled down to a few key points:
Setting aside the ridiculous equivalency between the Wisconsin occupation and what happened on January 6th, what’s missed entirely is that the warring “sides” that culminated with the U.S…
Yesterday’s events left me stunned, but it wasn’t until I saw the standard conservative evangelical reactions start rolling in that I became fully infuriated.
Take a look:
As we start a new year with (once the death rattle shenanigans peter out) new leadership, it’s tempting to think that things will slowly start returning to normal. For the most part this will (hopefully) be true, but one of the many ripples of 2020 on American society has been a great “Band-Aid ripping” effect that’s caused many slow but inevitable changes to happen years before anticipated.
As a result, a lot of things are never snapping back into place. Here are my predictions for a few of them…
Commuting and remote work: While it’s possible that we start seeing…
Back before the ugly truth came out, Louis C.K. had a great bit about aging that’s started to resonate more and more with me as I hurtle ever closer to oblivion:
Some things that are now just “like that” for me:
I post a lot (too much 🙄) about my email newsletter, but that’s only because I’m having a great time writing it, and love that people seem to be into it.
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You never shut up about it, but what does the newsletter cover?
I generally share a featured post…
In a few months I’ll have been writing my newsletter for a year (!), so I thought I’d share a look at how the Junk Drawer sausage is made, with hopes that it might inspire more people to start their own publications (I’ll read ’em) or at the very least continue widening/deepening their information diets. Let’s take a look…
💻 Hardware:
I documented some of this in a past post, but for cooking up newsletter issues, I use an iPhone 11 Pro, an iPad (some model from a few years ago) and an HP Chromebook (again, some model from a…
Some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases):
The Good Lord Bird (TV): Loved the style, loved the subject matter
The Last Picture Show (Movie): Young Randy Quaid blew both of our minds
The Comedy Store (TV): The origin story for so many comics
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Movie): History rhymes
A Teacher (TV): Uncomfortable but compelling
White Noise (Movie): Such dangerous fools 😠
The Mandalorian (TV): This season is unbelievably good
537 Votes (Movie): At the time I was young and clued out about the wild Miami backstory
The Reagans (TV): A really interesting…
A few months back I wrote about my 2020 “screened-in world” for my newsletter subscribers, and since at some point we’ll transition to a brave new post-COVID reality, I thought for the sake of grim posterity that I’d expand that piece into a full snapshot of my average 2020 weekday. 🚀 Buckle up…
6:00am-ish to 7:00am-ish:
I wake up, gather a ridiculous pile of devices and headphones and attempt to sneak out of the bedroom without waking up Sarah. …
I know a good deal of Trump supporters through church connections, my extended family and via social media, and despite how absolutely heartbreaking it has been to watch what’s happened to them over the past several years, I’m not at all opposed to rekindling our relationships in the event that the Biden victory acts as a cold water wake-up from their MAGA fever dream.
I’m not saying that it wouldn’t take a very long time to trust their judgment again (having seen what they’re capable of tacitly endorsing), but I do believe in fast forgiveness followed by slow trust rebuilding…
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