Your Mid-Week Experiment
2 comedic essays, a book excerpt, career advice from Ryan Holiday, exoneration for a writer, an indie pop album, a funny pop song, a recipe, a magazine piece, a movie trailer & a rejuvenated TV show
Let’s get to it:
This might be the funniest thing ever written about Thin Lizzy, bars, or pranks. (Timothy Faust)
If you have ever tried to translate bureaucratese into human speech, this will tickle you. (McSweeny’s)
Caroline Polachek’s new version of 2023’s Desire, I Want To Turn Into You is well worth a listen.
Send this RIGHT NOW to anyone you know starting out in their careers. (Ryan Holiday)
How tech ate media. (Kara Swisher)
There’s a lot more to the Junot Díaz story. (Ben Smith)
The best thing about this stupid-easy recipe is that you learn the magic combination of sesame oil/ginger/white miso. (New York Times Cooking)
Some of you know why this New York Times Magazine piece on the effects of isolation on Mars landed with me especially hard. (Nathaniel Rich)
This might be the best acting I’ve ever seen Gillian Jacobs do. It’s definitely the most serious, ironically playing a comedian.
Really digging Season 4 of True Detective.
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