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me, desperate for attention, because Allen is on a work trip
A Superbowl of random links from the internet:
A wild ride of an exposé about an informant planted by the FBI into racial justice groups as a big dumb trap to provide the bare minimum of evidence to corroborate then President Trump's false claims of protest violence. This sucks!
An excellent essay on Madonnna's new face and why plastic surgery is never a feminist practice. Excerpt (that I wish I wrote) below:
Media illiteracy spans the generations, or people of any age will believe stupid shit on the internet.
Another McSweeney's banger that sounds exactly like every layoff announcement I have ever seen.
A bunch of Goldman Sachs guys are pretending to be DJs and creating a hugely unethical conflict of interest within the music catalog industry. Stay tuned for a future newsletter field trip where we all go to whatever clown show/toilet store in the Hamptons these bozos are "spinning" at and heckle them into dust. (NYTimes)
Tunes to start the week with:
It's the 25th anniversary of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, so it's a great time to read my tribute to album, where I get to share my favorite fun fact about it being inspired by The Diary of Young Girl. For something a little fresher, I like the new Andy Shauf album. He's a cozy, Canadian singer-songwriter, a God-fearing, Sufjan type, but with a cynical-sweet Cass McCombs vibe.
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