friday cool/dumb shit: antho 1

this is a little bit of lazy content but potentially still valuable

I’m on a bit of a self-imposed spending hiatus. And by “a bit,” I mean a very little bit, like maybe I’m just avoiding Old Navy sales and Amazon wishlists. I obviously still go for my almost daily latte so “spending hiatus” is pushing it but whatever.

So anyway my so-called spending hiatus means I haven’t bought anything worth adding to cool/dumb shit lately, plus I’m in a weird mental place and only listening to spy novels vs. reading interesting substack subscriptions or otherwise enriching my brain with interesting podcasts or intellectual New Yorker articles. All of this together gave me the idea to compile everything on these lists into one big categorized list once in a while, and v10 seems like a nice interval. So here you have it, the listicle of listicles, an anthology. Snarky commentary on each item removed and/or edited for brevity, which, lol on brevity here. Brief, I am not.

Before I get to the giant listicle, I need something from you! If you read or purchased anything th…