Bottomless

June 28, 2019

Listen: Bottom of It by Fruit Bats

Coming off this week’s Kishi Bashi obsession, here’s another throwback album from the roughly one-man band, Fruit Bats. Beyond sounding vintage, his songs are devoted to investigating their author’s past: wondering what went wrong in old relationships, where old selves went, and how to unearth authenticity to bring into the rest of life. It’s early-middle-aged introspection of Beto O’Rourke proportions– if only candidates got entry soundtracks at debates.

Sleep Tracking Bad For Sleep

This week, an Engadget headline confirmed what we intuitively knew already: sleep trackers make it harder to sleep. Not because they physically get in the way, but because they amplify the neuroses that prompt people to use them in the first place. Losing sleep over losing sleep: this is the world we live in.

We’ve lost our way…s.

Meanwhile, about 100 Waze users got stuck in a field last week after the app directed them out of a traffic jam through a waterlogged dirt road, where a number of cars got stuck, blocking the rest. Bring on the self-driving cars, though.

So go analog

Charmin just, uh, rolled out a giant toilet paper roll measuring a foot in diameter. Like a giant lollipop at a carnival, only for your adult life in your bathroom, it’s just delightfully large and lasts through a comical number of poos. Which is exactly the point: as far as the Charmin boardroom can see, Snake People* (but honestly just everyone?) don’t want to replace toilet paper, so why not make friends with one long-lasting wheel? This time, you’re not wrong, boardroom. Now start selling those large-scale dispensers.
*Millennials

Don’t forget: always front-to-back.

Margot

 

PS Here’s this week’s New York Times bit on my trip to a cemetery. It was fun.

PPS I’m out next week, so no issues then or the following Monday. I *will* be sending you a small promotional thing while I’m out, but it’ll be fun.