so this is the new year
and I don't feel any different
Hi!
Thanks for opening this email / reading this post.
I hope everyone had a restful holiday. My resolution is to stay mad.
The New Year is a great time to start budgeting and looking at where your money goes. From the jump, Joe Biden has earmarked your federal taxes for war crimes - if that doesn’t align with your personal values, here’s a non-exhuastive list of places to send money to help Palestine (compiled by my buddy Samer, who really knows his shit) to balance the more evil expenditures.
Get Todd Haynes on the horn, I’ve found his next project.
Idea for a new public service: creative writing classes for cops. They’re desperate for an outlet for their big imaginations!
If your resolution is to read more, may I recommend a Goodreads account as a tool to track your personal library and to also observe some wild, yet pretty low-stakes author drama?
Trends to start the week with:
I’ve seen a lot of ins/outs lists floating around, so here’s my contribution to the discourse. I’m not someone who is particularly goal-oriented, but it’s nice to be a little more deliberate about the way I’m living my life!
In
eating three meals a day
long, James Joyce-style walks
writing poems in your notes app, to look back on when less *inspired,* and have a lil laugh
library cards
calling friends on the phone, even if you don’t have much to talk about
looking old (“Crone-core”)
helping your community
Out
workouts as punishment
capitalism disguised as freedom or feminism
celebrities
having long-held, yet unquestioned, beliefs
those TikToks where people secretly record their partner’s reaction to dumb/shocking stuff
contextual illiteracy
the phrase “fuck around and find out” (threatening, tired)
helping your country
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