Week of June 2, 2025
We were sold out all weekend for my play. There are still some tickets left for next weekend. If you’d like to attend, and I hope you will, please email me for a discount code.
Life-Changing Advice from 50 of the Most Interesting People We Know (via full stop.)
The Who Cares Era. Great short essay about the current zeitgeist. Plus, Systems Are Crumbling – but Daily Life Continues. The Dissonance is Real.
Copacabana arranged by Emma Wieriks for music school graduation. Just watch.
From McSweeney’s, A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely about the Giant Plagiarism Machine
Good Bones
By Maggie Smith
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.