just emailing through the apocalypse, am I right?
The fun thing about these newsletters is when I write them really depends. Sometimes it's obvious that I've written them the night before due to the frantic nature of remembering that I need to send it out in 12 hours. Sometimes I have them written maybe a solid week early, and I tweak it throughout the week. Sometimes, I write them a month or so early and hold it in the drafts in case I need a helping hand on Thursday morning. You really never know.
Which is why I found it so fascinating last week to get emails from Wayfair about JULY 4TH SALES!!!! while news that the Supreme Court didn't consider me a full ass person.
Granted - yes, I know automatic emails exist. There are emails that are triggered by me glancing at a website and that will encourage me to follow through. But holy shit, I had a few companies - Pottery Barn, DW Homes (candles), Wayfair to name a few - that sent so many emails this weekend, you would've thought they believed they could make me feel better about not being considered a full person by buying more shit. I wasn't panic researching some new candles or a new couch, ie I haven't gone to their site in the last few months, but my god, will they not stop emailing!
It's funny on the other end as a social media person, I know you have to keep one eye on the news because if anything bad happens in the world (and buddy, have you been in the world recently?), you must be prepared to pull your campaigns, and make a statement, no matter if you are Snapples, Sephora, or Square Enix, but emails??? In a world where we already get so many emails at work and in life that we can barely process them?! Why!? Stop sending me things and stop trying to encourage me to spend money as though the world is going to end! Because buddy, when it does and we all have to forage the land to survive because we as a human species barely exist, I can assure you I will not want any fucking candles!!
Sigh.
Anyway, it's weird to have a newsletter go out last Thursday with the mention of my soul not breaking while during this past week it has truly felt like new cracks appeared in it every day. I'm sure throughout the week you've come across a lot of great resources so I won't resend things you've probably already seen. If you follow @AOC on Instagram, she's posting a lot of great stories with information. But at some times, it feels hopeless when you're screaming at your politician to do something and they're like "donation? :)"
It's weird to try to be funny or light hearted or anything beyond full on bleak as things continue to get worse, But I hope you're able to have a nice long weekend for a holiday that feels no longer relevant to me anymore. And while you're at it -- why not unsubscribe to some of those emails? I know Wayfair is getting the boot after the tomfoolery it has been pulling.
Which is why I found it so fascinating last week to get emails from Wayfair about JULY 4TH SALES!!!! while news that the Supreme Court didn't consider me a full ass person.
Granted - yes, I know automatic emails exist. There are emails that are triggered by me glancing at a website and that will encourage me to follow through. But holy shit, I had a few companies - Pottery Barn, DW Homes (candles), Wayfair to name a few - that sent so many emails this weekend, you would've thought they believed they could make me feel better about not being considered a full person by buying more shit. I wasn't panic researching some new candles or a new couch, ie I haven't gone to their site in the last few months, but my god, will they not stop emailing!
It's funny on the other end as a social media person, I know you have to keep one eye on the news because if anything bad happens in the world (and buddy, have you been in the world recently?), you must be prepared to pull your campaigns, and make a statement, no matter if you are Snapples, Sephora, or Square Enix, but emails??? In a world where we already get so many emails at work and in life that we can barely process them?! Why!? Stop sending me things and stop trying to encourage me to spend money as though the world is going to end! Because buddy, when it does and we all have to forage the land to survive because we as a human species barely exist, I can assure you I will not want any fucking candles!!
Sigh.
Anyway, it's weird to have a newsletter go out last Thursday with the mention of my soul not breaking while during this past week it has truly felt like new cracks appeared in it every day. I'm sure throughout the week you've come across a lot of great resources so I won't resend things you've probably already seen. If you follow @AOC on Instagram, she's posting a lot of great stories with information. But at some times, it feels hopeless when you're screaming at your politician to do something and they're like "donation? :)"
It's weird to try to be funny or light hearted or anything beyond full on bleak as things continue to get worse, But I hope you're able to have a nice long weekend for a holiday that feels no longer relevant to me anymore. And while you're at it -- why not unsubscribe to some of those emails? I know Wayfair is getting the boot after the tomfoolery it has been pulling.
Some links for you all:
- This Canadian Rock station, in protest to their DJs being let go, played Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine for.... at least 18 hours. It ended about four hours before I sent this newsletter sadly, but it was glorious during its reign! Here is the original thread that caught it.
- My future husband Karl Urban (I'll tell him one day, guys!), was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and while the whole episode is great, but I'm sending you to the part where he and Stephen attempt to shoot eye lasers - or at least, how one films shooting eye lasers - at each other. Link here
- And you know what? After this last week - or hell, last three years, or HELL, last seven years, OR HELL, WHO EVEN KNOWS ANYMORE - this image of a baby hippo biting someone is the mood I've needed. Truly, become ungovernable.
Bye fam. Have a relaxing weekend and try to stay cool. And happy ten year anniversary to this extremely true tweet:
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