HDQ: It's Giving Goth
Plus: Super Blue Moons, Obituaries, Searching Loch Ness, and The Itsy Bitsy Spider ☠️🌕✍️🪦 🌊🕷
Welcome to your mid-week quickie! This is your bonus, even-less-strings-attached newsletter to get you through the week.
What’s On My Mind…
Tonight’s super blue moon has me feeling a little witchy and a lot unruly. If you catch me howling in the streets, mind ya business.
Weekly Reads
Writer Damian Arnold On How to Make a Living Out of Death ✍️🪦
Absolutely enthralled by this profile of an obituary writer — a career change I’m not not considering:
“It might seem odd to be that invested in, that driven by, writing about death. That he’ll enjoy writing about yours. But the way Arnold sees it, there only tend to be one or two lines in an obituary about death. For the rest of it, he’ll be writing about your life.”
How Corporate Goths Bring Alternative Style to Their Nine-to-Five Jobs ☠️
Bringing a whole new meaning to “slay.” This is the fashion inspo I didn’t know I needed.
“‘How do I take my personal identity and my professional identity and make a secret third thing?’” McKeown asks herself often. “That’s what I like to call ‘business ghoul:’ pulling the pieces I have in my closet that are eclectic or weird and then pairing them with traditional business clothing, like suits and pointed-toe heels.”
We Could Have Just Believed Women ⚽️
After winning the Women’s World Cup, Jenni Hermoso was sexually violated on live television by the Spanish football federation president. No, actually.
My fav sports writer, Lindsay Gibbs, broke it down last week, but so much has happened since. Once you’ve finished the article, listen to her latest reporting here.
“[T]hese men will likely use the players’ on-field success against them. They will point to the trophy that the woman won with their talent, perseverance, hard work, blood, sweat, and tears, and use it to justify the leadership and behavior of the men in charge.”
The Jobs Most (and Least) Likely to Land You on ‘The Bachelorette’ 🌹📊
This is just a perfect use of data.
“Men can be surprised that we don’t just give the OK to every person who would like to be called an ‘entrepreneur,’” a producer once said. “That occupation seems to be the catchall for ‘I really don’t know what I’m doing with my life, but this sure sounds cool.’”
One-Liners
Torment meets tummy time: Why The Itsy Bitsy Spider is Sisyphus for toddlers 🕷
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Enjoy this playlist of Berenstain Bear retellings 🐻
Read this profile on a Texas mom who stopped a serial killer 🔪
Despite the biggest search in 50 years, The Loch Ness Monster is still at large 🌊
Serotonin Boost!
Cast your vote for the World's Cutest Rescue Dog finalists 🐾🏆
Last Thought
Me the second I feel a breeze…
