may 21 zip
I want to write more about the Threads drama I posted a little bit about yesterday, but I'm not going to. It's still interesting, and the various offshoot conversations and discussions about feminism, privacy, bitterness, loneliness, grifting, hustling, and, yes, loving are really interesting to me —— and always will be.
Like many millions of people, I have had parasocial relationships with and to strangers on the internet —— especially when I was struggling with alcohol. I have fallen in love with shadows. I have heard echoes of the thoughts of ghosts. And it is precisely because of the fact that I've been fucked off, fooled, robbed, and ridiculed that I think we should all handle each other with a bit more care.
And now for some obvious choons:
🎵🎵 The Traveling Wilburys, "Handle With Care"
They were a supergroup and it is a classic and that's all I think I need to say...
🎵🎵 Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, "Handle With Care"
...except that the Jenny Lewis version (which included the talents of the Watson Twins, Ben Gibbard, M. Ward, and Conor Oberst) is better.
Anyone who knows me well enough to have been to any of my apartments over the last twenty years likely knows I am a massive, massive fan of Jenny Lewis. It started with The Wizard (an age-appropriate crush). It continued with Rilo Kiley and her solo records. "The Good That Won't Come Out" was the closing music to a play I wrote in 2003 that got produced in 2004.
"Handle With Care," off Lewis's solo debut, Rabbit Fur Coat, was the song of my personal summer in 2006. That wasn't a good thing. I was a huge mess, and playing "Handle With Care" a handful of times a day (and singing along, natch) was my way of begging the universe to take pity on me. The universe responded to that request by dropping a manic pixie dream girl into my life because the universe is a rabid, drunken badger at the best of times.
🌲 gonna
🌼 go
🌱 touch honketh
🌳 grass mine
🌷 now shoos
Be good to yourself.
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