Welcome to your mid-week quickie! This is your bonus,Β even-less-strings-attached newsletterΒ to get you through the week.
Whatβs On My Mind
Pretty much always this:
Weekly Reads
It Might Be A Good Time To Clear Out Your Wardrobe
This Substack is the closest dupe Iβve found to a Clueless closet (including an inventory app and charts on most-worn items). βImagine loving everything in your wardrobe, and it all fits! And itβs QUICK to find an outfit that you love. All of that can be yours!!!β Please someone hold me accountable for doing this. Iβm begging you.
Oscar Mayer Seeks Full-Time Wienermobile Drivers
The most magical time of the year! Oscar Mayer is hiring its 37th class of Hotdoggers to drive a 27-foot-long hot dog across America.
βThe title of a Hotdogger is a rare and coveted position unique to those seeking adventure and a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Statistically speaking, more people have visited space than driven the Wienermobile!β
Applications are open until Jan 31st. My the
oddsdogs be ever in your favour.The Arc of Britney Spears Bends Toward Justice (paywalled)
New year, same βis Britney crazy?β nonsense. Leave π Her π Aloneπ
βItβs never just been about Britney. Itβs about the public and the media and the cultural expectations of how young women should act, how much power they can be trusted with, whether they deserve to be heard, and whether they can be believed.β
9 Women Philosophers To Inspire You In 2024
This post has some amazing quotes, but nothing will ever be as inspiring as learning more people have gone to space than driven the Wienermobile...
βArt is the articulation, not the stimulation or catharsis, of feeling; and the height of technique is simply the highest power of this sensuous revelation and wordless abstraction.β
Quick Hits
π For the person that has everything: Jacob Elordiβs bathwater candle
π Road snack! Moose love licking salty cars
π« Stop right now. And spice up your mail with these commemorative stamps
π Spooky. A $5m lawsuit over a faceless chocolate jack-oβ-lantern
π Waitβ¦Why are snails and slugs so slow?
Serotonin Boost
A Burger King employee who went viral for not missing a day of work in 27 years bought his first home thanks to an outpouring of online donations. A touching reminder that sometimes, hard work pays off.
βI think people wanted to be a part of something beautiful for once and this is beautiful. Itβs a miracle.β

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Last Thought
Any bets on whatβs going in the next bracket?