Blue Bell crimes and cow cuddles [#87]
Heyyyyyyy!
Four years ago on this date I sent my first Hu’s Letter to 16 friends. I was missing you and feeling disconnected after moving abroad earlier that year. Even though I’m no longer abroad and publications-of-record are declaring we’re at peak newsletter. (along with peak influencer and peak podcast), I still enjoy saving links and writing you, so, I will chug along.
Reading
Stretch out your summer by stretching out time. Fallow time is part of the work cycle, not outside of it. Read writers who aren’t self-absorbed sociopaths (h/t Friend Fiscus). On the SCOTUS, Brett Kavanaugh is the median. The broader importance of the USWNT. Whatever you want to call it, what’s happening at the border is a historic crime. Solving the mystery of what happened to all the Bob Ross paintings. Say it ain’t so — the “Beijing bikini” is under threat. What your H-Mart purchase says about you. “How to stay married forever” is such subversive, sick burn & I am here for it. The Iowa official who lost his job for forcing his Tupac obsession on everyone. The Boeing engineer who got addicted to robbing banks (h/t Friend Matt). All about cow cuddling (ht Friend Peter). And police have identified the “Blue Bell licker.”
Werk and Musings
Everyone loves Trader Joe’s, so I aggregated all your product recommendations. My NPR Life Kit episodes are all on travel hacks. So far we released one on planning/packing, but more are coming soon. The latest Future You is about a company in New York, founded by an obvious genius who invented Internet Explorer and doesn’t like making eye contact, and the crazy wristband that lets you move objects with your mind. Seriously that dude was the smartest man I’ve ever interviewed. Also it’s the first one where I didn’t have to wear a ridiculous headset.
Watching and/or Listening
Black Mirror’s latest season has ANDREW SCOTT (aka hot priest) in it
Why the price of Coca-Cola didn’t change for 70 years
Crazy/Genius from The Atlantic! My husband turned me on to this recently and I love the voices on it and I consistently learn something new.
Happy fourth anniversary of the newsletter. We made it. Stronger together. (Too soon? Ouch. Sorry).
Hugs
Hu
PS. Y’all know there is no couple I stan more than RBG and her late husband Marty. Just got a work email that said in an interview with NPR’s Nina Totenberg today, Nina and Ginsburg discussed how Marty used to pick out newspaper clips each morning tailored to RBG’s liking, and Ginsburg said, “I miss him every day.”