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Hello People’s Sexiest Newsletter Readers of the Year,
Since many of you told me that you read the intro most of the time I’ll give y’all a little something. This past week I was in London. A city I have never visited despite the fact that it is my last name. Multiple times on the trip people I met (mostly people who worked at the hotel I was staying at) said to me “let me tell you, we just love your surname here” which is ridiculous and corny and funny when written but sounds even more ridiculous and corny and funny when I do an impression of it. If you want to hear me do it send me an email with your phone number and then I’ll call you and leave the impression for you as a voicemail. But don’t pick up because I DO NOT, under any circumstances want to talk to you on the phone.
Anyways, I digress horribly from the point of this tale. The point of which is that it was my first time in London – a monstrous city with unfathomable intricacies and histories that will swallow you whole. Any kind of travel at all is overwhelming, you want to feel like you are squeezing all the experience juice out of the foreign lemons that you can. You’re spending your hard earned money and time to make it happen, after all. But if you have an ideal trip in your mind and eight million spots to hit a day you’re more than likely going to end up disappointed, not to mention exhausted.
Personally, I’ve never been one for trip planning for the above reasons. I don’t sit around though. I usually have a handful of spots that I want to hit up but I find the best way to travel is to have a 50/50 approach to planned things vs of-the-moment and serendipitous things. But not even that aspect is a hard and fast rule! If I’m planning to hit up a museum but then decide I would rather go frolic in a field, well I go frolic in a mothafuckin field! I’m on vacation. That’s how I just approached London and it was a wonderful trip. And again, I could have let the the sheer impossibility of getting to know London in 5 days weigh me down, but I just went with it and saw what I saw. I did a lot (museums, fish & chips, pubs, an Arsenal game, lots of walking) but I didn’t stress that I wasn’t seeing enough a common ailment while traveling I’ve found.
One of my friends recently said it best. He told me that every time he travels somewhere he assumes he’ll be there again in the future, so he doesn’t beat himself up about what he doesn’t see or do. And I think there’s something great about that and thought about that a lot on this past trip and now I just have to go back to London sometime in the near future to kick off the vicious, wonderful cycle all over again.
Because of these travels, this is more of a composite newsletter with a bunch of links and internet things I’ve been reading lately that I thought y’all should also check out. Next week we will be back to regularly scheduled programming with a few tweaks and tests based on the survey results.
Ok time for the usual linkies. Enjoy.
Interesting Things You May Or May Not Care About
Putting Planes in Hibernation Is Complicated; Waking Them Up Is Even Harder
It ain't easy to put away a plane, and there were a lot of them put away over the past few years. Now we need them all to be reactivated (because of renewed travel and the subsequent advice you’re going to take from the intro) and it appears to be quite the chore to get those old birds up and running again.How Pickleball Won Over Everyone From Leonardo DiCaprio To Your Grandparents
It's kind of a combo between tennis and ping pong. I've been wanting to play ever since my friend Geissman told me his aunt was super into it but actually don't think I ever have, so if anybody wants to play the hottest new game around, give me an invite. I'm down.The Animals That May Exist In A Million Years, Imagined By Biologists
You knew I was gonna click on this fast as hell! This piece predicts things like huge insects, ocean-dwelling rats and carnivorous pigeons. Basically sounds like a Wednesday in New York City though if I’m being honest.The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind
Look I’ll shoot y’all straight, back in the day we, as humans, killed a loooot of whales. Like we almost drove them to extinction. And as it turns out those whales were actually super important to their marine ecosystems, and despite being able to eat like 16 metric tons of krill in a day, they actually helped to create more krill and a more lush aquatic ecosystem all thanks to their dookie. They were dropping all important iron poo-bombs all over the oceans, and when there was less whale poo there were less microorganisms and the whole underwater battalion of sea creatures suffered.The CIA Is Trying To Recruit Gen Z—And Doesn’t Care If They’re All Over Social Media
I liked this article in The Washingtonian where the author goes to Langley and talks with a bunch of CIA folk to determine how you are supposed to balance an online life with being (or applying to be) a covert secret agent. And it turns out it is actually good to be online, because it would be weird if you weren’t. Just like for any job don’t be an idiot and you’ll be good, and also don’t say you work for the CIA, of course.Why Cemeteries Are Still So Important
A deep dive into the history of cemeteries and what their issues are in current day (a lot of environmental concerns) but also the huge benefits they have when done right (visiting loved ones, biodiversity, ghosts, seances, etc).Lights, Camera, Easels: Meet the Painters Behind Hollywood’s Onscreen Art
No the actors are not also dope ass painters. It’s what they call “the magic of Hollywood” which is how they get the paintings to look legit. I just wish they would have interviewed the artist that drew Kate Winslet like a French Girl.Why Candace Parker Pretty Much Rules Basketball Right Now
Candace Parker is one of the coolest people in basketball. She's awesome. This is a nice short profile on her and how she just took her hometown Chicago Sky to their first ever WNBA championship while also building herself up as a well-like and respected media personality.The Greatest Drinking Contest In History
Now it involved some old timey Lords and Barons and such and also multiple bottles of liquor per person. It seems like it was quite the occasion that would straight up kill most people due to alcohol poisoning.Meet Steve Harvey, Style Icon
If you haven't seen the Family Feud host and Miss Universe Pageant-destroyer on social media recently you would be forgiven for not seeing the absolutely ludicrous fits he has been busting out. The man is getting it in.
Other Newsletters You Should Check Out
Obviously I’m a big fan of newsletters like mine provided they do curation of internet things in a thoughtful way. That’s why I’ve recently been a fan of the newsletter 10 + 1 Things. I think it does a really good job of finding very random and disparate things but presenting them in meaningful and cool ways. It’s once a week. Check it out.
Internet Things That You Can’t Afford
The apartment where Kendall Roy sets up his war room in this season of Succession is currently up for sale for $23M if you’re in the market for a place that was also in a television show and seems incredibly unnecessary. I guess it is better than that one house from True Detective though!
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Thanks a lot for the feature! :)