Surely, we can do better than "JusT&T"
It's a party in the USA...?
Hello, Messketeers! Happy Fourth of July, I suppose!
What a dystopian 250th anniversary, but also one extremely befitting our country. We get the birthday party we deserve, etc. And I am absolutely including the incredibly bizarre, capitalist spectacle of a wedding that just took place at MSG in that assessment.
This week, the only thing that’s been top of mind is that I want to start taking way better notes about my life. Throughout the week, I have so many random little thoughts and experiences that I tell myself in the moment I want to share with you all, but my brain is so frenetic by the time I sit down to write this email, I’ve completely forgotten everything. So please know that I am consciously putting effort into documenting more of that stuff. Unfortunately, I am still stuck at the stage where I keep forgetting that I even created a note on my phone expressly for this purpose. Baby steps!!!
One of those details I did manage to jot down, however, is that I’ve spent the week watching YouTube videos and looking up where I can take advanced English grammar classes because the very nature of my job makes me question everything I ever thought I knew about punctuation, capitalization, and em dashes. I am immediately 12 again being quizzed on comma placement, which is something that I’ve always personally felt was more of a linguistic vibe than a set of hard and fast rules. Apparently, the English grammarians of the world do not feel the same. If you have any suggestions for content or classes that can provide this much-needed refresher, please drop them in the comments!
This week, I also saw SO MANY pictures of celebrities canoodling in tall grasses, which I found to be quite a striking development. It got me wondering if this is the new 1% flex: to fearlessly enter a field in shorts and a tank during the height of tick season with zero fear of Lyme in your heart. I’m sure if I was in the Hamptons this weekend, I would be seeing more of the same from our local elites, despite the fact that we all know Hamptons’ ticks are on that vegan tip. I suppose if health insurance did not seem prohibitively, psychotically expensive, perhaps we would all feel a little more cavalier about sallying forth into the dunes of Long Island? Although, I do feel they should all have to watch a mandatory Bella Hadid PSA before they do so.
The last thing I have to share with you for now is simply that there’s a new pod episode out!! I made the stupid mistake of talking about the Pornhub Awards in it, so YouTube is attempting to silence me. However! You can stick it to the man by watching it anyway here:
Ok, I know all my American readers are currently knee-deep in a body of water and some BBQ, so let’s get to it.
