Just Good Shit: 01.24.21

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Hi! Here’s what I was up to this week…

On the blog

• A small nice new year thing: a house journal

Reading

An Incompetent Authoritarian Is Still a Catastrophe, The Atlantic.

Let's Not Become a Bunch of Panicky Reactionaries, In These Times.

Cori Bush: Can She Bring the Movement for Black Lives to Congress?, Teen Vogue.

My Life Sewing T-Shirts for 26 Cents an Hour, The New Republic.

My ‘Long Covid’ Nightmare: Still Sick After 6 Months, NYT Magazine.

Mary Retta on the B.S. that is celebrating Black people in law enforcement in order to convince us that police reform is possible.

Gay Stories for Straight Allies, Utopian Drivel.

Improve Your Life With These Tiny Chores, NYT.

The Corny Comforts of the Biden Inauguration, GQ.

PSA: Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ Is About Jews Having Sex, Hey Alma.

“I Think My Gmail Has Crashed”: The Teacher Who Made Bernie Sanders’ Mittens on Watching Them Go Viral, Slate.
This is so charming.

Did everyone spontaneously applaud Amanda Palmer in a Havelock North cafe? A Spinoff investigation, The Spinoff.

Watching & listening to

My girlfriend and I listened to Serial Season 3 and immediately followed it with Nice White Parents, both of which are really, really good. We’ve also been enjoying the current season of The Challenge.

Have a good one! ☀️

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