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Hey, hope you're having a good week. (And hi, new subscribers!) Here are some lovely and/or meaningful things for you this week:
- After the Civil War, being a cowboy was one of the few job options available for men of color who didn't want to become elevator operators or dishwashers. At one point, one in four cowboys in the American West was black.
- Tyler, The Creator as Yankee Candles, Lana Del Rey as Hamsters, Mariah Carey as Whisks, Taylor Swift as Dutch Public Transport.
- How to fight back against the end of empathy, and a classic: "I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people."
- Instagram follows: @HistoryCoolKids features genuinely interesting, non-obvious, accurate-as-far-as-I-can-tell tidbits from all aspects of history, not just History Channel History (generals and presidents); a photographer has been going around to electronics stores to grab weirdly endearing selfies taken on display models.
- Barry Jenkins interviews Claire Denis; Barry Jenkins and Greta Gerwig interview each other.
- How Leonardo da Vinci made a map of an Italian city from a satellite's perspective in 1502.
- Why New Yorkers have always worn black and the controversy around preachers wearing (very expensive) sneakers.
- Here's a good place to fall down a YouTube hole of Cyd Charisse dancing. Because she is a chameleon, I didn't realize that Charisse is the woman in one of my all-time favorite GIFs.
- A content warning on this one for reasons that are probably obvious from the title: "I am not always very attached to being alive."
- In the next galaxy,
Things will be different.
No one will lose their sight,
their hearing, their gallbladder.
It will be all Catskills with brand
new wrap-around verandas.
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Bye (sound on!),
Laura
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