you're not punk and i'm telling everyone
Hi!
Thanks for opening this email.
me coming through with your weekly reading assignments
It's beginning to look a lot like seasonal affective disorder.
An insider's take on the wild world of Christmas tree retail in New York City.
Elon Musk getting booed for five minutes straight at a Dave Chapelle stand up show (ew) helps me to understand why Romans liked to get together to watch people being eaten by lions.
For another hearty helping of schadenfreude, niche influencer Arielle Charnas (a perennially annoying hate-follow for the femme millennial demographic) seems to be in hot water.
An absolute banger of an essay on the grey-ing of America and just how boring and ugly everything is now! Excerpt below because it's that good.
Bringing back this classic before Twitter is officially dead:
Tunes to start the week with:
First, the new SZA album. SO good.
And it's Top Ten Time, baby! Albumism rounded up their writers' favorite albums of the year, including yours truly. Check out what I have been into this year, and discover what everyone else is listening to.
PS. I'll be hanging up my newsletter hat until 2023, but stayed tuned next week for some recs from resident film critic, my sister Marissa.
xx