Drop it.

September 11, 2019

Stuck by Katie Dey

Hypothesis: in the way of dad sneaks, we like ugly music right now (see: Blueface & co). And Katie Dey is giving it to us with force. “Stuck,” off her new album solipsisters, is actually painful on the ears, and nonetheless it is critically acclaimed. You’ll want to stick it out, too; she takes and indie rock song and distorts it so far out of tune that the sounds become garbled, and from there it’s a real thriller: Will it create so much friction as to eventually smooth out? Will you instead habituate to the devil’s noise? Maybe you’ll explode and that will be your escape. And that’s actually the message of the song: you’ve only got one body, no matter how uncomfortable you are in it, so enjoy.

Don’t drop your AirPods

Ever since headphone-jack-gate 2016, everybody’s wearing AirPods, and everybody wearing AirPods keeps dropping them onto the train tracks. In New York, where everyone is busy and important, a number of those drops result in search-and-rescue missions (you’re not just gonna LEAVE THEM THERE, are you?), which is also a huge drain on the subway staff called upon to help. The MTA is understandably tired of spending their time this way, so they’re about to issue a new announcement asking us all to keep our goddamn headphones in our ears when we’re getting on and off the train. What remains to be seen is how you issue an announcement about AirPods without directly referencing Apple. To be a municipal copywriter…

 

On second thought, *do* drop the AirPods

If you’re having feelings about the anti-AirPod campaign, perhaps you’re due for a break, and the NYT just covered a very cool way to take one. A new nonprofit called Amble pairs professionals with national parks for month-long sabbaticals where you LIVE IN A PARK. Here’s the deal: if you’re accepted (yes, it’s that kind of program), you spend 18 hours per week contributing your skills (business development, graphic design, what have you) to a nonprofit that helps the park run, and in exchange, your home is a paradise where you take guided hikes for free. You do still have to pay for lodging ($1,400 also covers some meals and gets you an annual parks pass) but what a time off.

Dropps: a different kind of pod $

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Parklife: not just a bar.

Margot

 

Now, before you go, recall that I asked for your best plant names on Monday. Boy, did you deliver.

All of Sascha’s plants are named “Plantie,” except for a ficus named Tree-y.

Tasha has a large jade plant named Bruce.

Alexa’ cactus is Prickly Pete.

Jessica’s best friend “named her little scrappy philodendron Hamilton, her three spider plants Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy, and her baby fiddle leaf fig Washington. Hamilton promptly died, Eliza sprouted baby spider plants, and Washington kept falling over (i.e. was on his side). No update on Peggy. “

Emily “doesn’t have a plant name, obviously, but my nieces are Magnolia and Marigold.”

And from Jes: “My only plant with a name is Pity Cactus, because when I saw it at the greenhouse I felt so bad for its half dead state that I paid $15 to save it…Pity Cactus is doing well and has the weirdest and most phallic flower bloom of any plant I’ve owned.”

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