In the interest of giving you what you obviously crave, we present a once-in-a-lifetime (maybe) trash-fire-long-read-(tm) issue of Mark As Read. Think of this as a stack of steak sandwiches (on the Underhills tab) for you to carry into the wilderness with you to ensure that oh so umami sustenance shortens the dark nights and calms the wild beasts.
Our last issue, which honestly was the first one in a fairly chunky amount of time, saw well above our normal level of readership. It seems like people might be sitting around looking for things to amuse themselves for some reason?
This issue we've added a, er, situationally-specific section at the end. If you're looking for 100% pure escapism from the turd that is our current reality, feel free to skip past that to our final words. We'll try to include only items that we think have more than in-the-moment temporal value.
Odds are good that you are spending many of your waking hours semi-horizontal, scrolling on a device in a languid manner while you wait for the world to go back to normal. We would like to offer you some reading that hopefully makes you happy, or teaches you something new, or is at the very least better than your drunk uncle's latest Facebook rant.
Onward!
This here list of links represents the top link from each category in our newsletter. We've retained the original commentary for each, so if this issue feels a bit "off" tonally that's why.
Just kidding. There's no consistency whatsoever in our tone from issue to issue.
T+R+A+S+H=F+I+R+E
H-I+S=F-A+R-T+E-R
E=F+I-S-H-A-T
*(If you're new here that's when we clean out the ol' link-ives more or less in the same way you can blow water out one end of a styrofoam pool noodle. Blugghahrt!)
Mhhhmmmm that’s the good stuff right there y’all. Let’s get to the clickety clickety stat!
Happy Saturday! Many much links below.
Enjoy!
What's going on down there? Come in!
Uh, everything is under control. Situation normal.
What happened?
Uh, had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?
We're sending a squad up.
Uh, uh, negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak... very dangerous.
Who is this?? What's your operating number?
Uh... [shoots the intercom] Boring conversation anyway. Luke, we're gonna have company!
Well hello. It's been twenty days since our last communiqué. We hope you've missed us and/or had time to read all the links from the previous issue.
We have a truly appalling amount of links in the queue, so be on the lookout for a Trash Fire event coming to an inbox near you.
Enjoy.
Calvin and Brian have been getting into disc golf lately. Any sport where you can drink a beer, stroll and chat with friends, and still convince everyone you know you were active and athletic that day is OK in our books. We'd like to think this issue also lends itself to having a bevvy, a stroll, and a chat.
Enjoy.