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since u been gone (pitch perfect version)
To be quite honest I can feel my stomach pulsating inside my skull as I type this out for you, so let’s just go ahead and get started. I’m the middle school teacher showing you a movie today, while I quietly nurse my body back to health.
Here’s what I’ve been thinking about this week:
I have been shopping for my father’s Christmas gift for over a month. His one request was “a creative mug.” I have literally no idea what that means, and he will never tell me if he hates it. I will probably die with 37 tabs still opened on different quirky mugs.
The New York Times went on strike this week, so I hope you broke your Wordle streaks. We had layoffs. CNN had layoffs. Washington Post had layoffs. My brain is on fire. The only good thing was the Scabby (big rat mascot) appearance at the picket line. Always exciting to see a celebrity in real life.
First we had light academia, then dark academia, then hard boiled egg girls, and now the 2000s frazzled English woman aesthetic. I am about two more fashion aesthetic definitions away from stripping stark naked in an H&M.
This week I received a PR email about Gen Z’s most desired gifts, based on a TikTok study, and the Dyson Airwrap was like, number four on the list. If you’re a 23-year-old actually asking for and receiving a $700 curling iron from your parents, what is wrong with you? Where do you live? What’s your garage door code?
I’m not giving my face and credit information to the AI apps for data reasons, but because I personally don’t find any of the designs cunty enough to give it away.
Nice things to consider:
Scaachi Koul on grief and her year of getting stupid tattoos.
This piece on chronically online discourse from *the* Rebecca Jennings.
New York Magazine cover who’s who guide.
Since we last spoke, I reported on the Justice for Emmett Till protests that received shooting threats last weekend. I covered the abduction and murder of a 7-year-old girl in Texas. I spoke with several women about their Dating Wrapped on TikTok. I visited the viral Scarf Guy stand. I wrote about the labor & delivery nurses who received backlash after making a TikTok about their patient icks. Noodle, the pug who started the “bones or no bones” trend, has died.