Emchap’s Shit from the Internet 9/26/18 🍠
I'm traveling for work, which has landed me in my hometown, where I've spent this afternoon staring out the window and feeling vaguely adrift while I look at the first real rain I've seen in a long time. I'm eavesdropping on a (solid-seeming!) date and checking out a cute dude eating cake with his tea and feeling vaguely upset that a different coffee shop where I camped out this morning has repainted inside, betraying the color scheme it has had since before I was 15 and spending all of my time and money there.
The news this week is Bad, in a sort of lay-down-and-die kind of way where I have to figure out the way to both follow what is happening while also not having to read about gang rape on the internet fucking constantly. It's a long slow horrible reveal that suggests that none of the work that came before the sexual assault prevention and response work I did in college mattered, that our government is just old leather-faced nightmare lizard-looking rapist motherfuckers and their garbage-headed dumbass nightmare children, forever and ever, with a side helping of "the men around me do not seem to give half as much of a shit and they get mad when you point that out."
So that part's not great.
I try to end these on a cheerful note normally so my dad doesn't email me to see if Things Are Okay, but man, things are bleak. Let Gritty take us all.
Shit to read
Jeff Sessions is a horrible little goblin.
Did y'all see the viral thread that was selling weight loss pills? It was bananas.
I loved loved loved this piece on the Love Boat, which appears to be an Asian-American Birthright trip in the sense of finding someone from your group to partner with, and what happens to the friendships formed there.
I work at Lush and everything is fine.
American healthcare is so broken and migraines are horrible.
Did you watch BoJack yet? I loved this look at private forgiveness versus public.
Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare and this story about Macbeth and cereal made me cry.
Ghosts aren't real but also ghosts are real.
Shit to eat
Go to Leon's Full Service in Decatur, GA
Stand by the host stand even though it says to seat yourself, as you have done since the restaurant opened
A waiter will come by to shoo you to a table
It'll turn out you know the waiter
(Of course you do)
He'll seat you in his section
You'll order a salad with trout (good, because trout is good) and a chickpea salad with dry cherries and cheese
It'll be great, and for five minutes you'll be able to think about something other than work or the fact that the country is on fire
Shit to listen to
"Mississippi Goddamn" just came on the speakers at this coffee shop and you should listen to it.
Shit to buy
I just ordered this jumpsuit with a boatneck; it's on sale now and maybe check it out
Same with this one; as always if you haven't ordered with them before EMILYCHAPMAN57 will get you $35 off (and gets me $25); it looks like FREECUSTOM will get you free customizations until the end of today, as well.