¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

-Kathrine & Greg

“Buying Myself Back” written by Emily Ratajkowski

I’ve written about The Cut before, which has some of the best writing/journalism/opinion pieces/random stuff I read on a daily basis and this personal essay from Ratajkowski, a model and actress, is a worthwhile read and devastating at the same time. The general idea is about her trying to reclaim her image as a model in the public limelight and what she owns of herself and what the paparazzi, photographers, and men think they own. I don’t have much else to say other than, you should read it. I’d rather let her speak for herself. -G

“Waste Land” by Planet Money

I’d like to preface this by saying that you shouldn’t stop recycling. That being said, plastic recycling is mostly a ploy from the plastic industry. They want us to keep buying plastic, so they’ve told us all plastic is recycled, which, as you’ll find out when you listen to “Waste Land,” it most certainly is not. This episode of Planet Money explains the past, present, and future of the plastic industry’s campaign to get us to recycle, and why recycling really doesn’t happen. It’s in a word, aggravating. -K

The Things They Fancied written by Molly Young

Molly Young is a writer I’ve admired for a while now. She’s written for GQ, the NYT, New York and I somehow missed this zine that she put out early on in quarantine. Anyway, I saw Alice Gregory (another great writer) recommend it and I bought it immediately. It’s essentially a bunch of random essays tied together by Young’s interests in what the insanely rich spend their money on when bored. It’s good quarantine material and very funny in the tangents and descriptions of the wealthy. It’s all over the place and never lingers, which is a good thing with my attention span deteriorating day after day.

“How Climate Migration Will Reshape America” by Abrahm Lustgarten

As someone who is seriously considering peacing out of California because of fire season (yes, it’s a season here), this hit home. The effects of climate change aren’t going to be felt by our children, our grandchildren. They’re here, now, we feel them. It’s causing millions to pick up and move to the ever-shrinking part of land that won’t kill them. If that scares you, well, you’re not alone. -K

The Denver Nuggets

It doesn’t matter what happens in the Western Conference Finals. The Nuggets could get swept by the Lakers in four games. I don’t care. All I know is that it was so so so much fun to watch the Clippers get its comeuppance for their villainy since they formed a “super team” last offseason. Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray were otherworldly in their play and ridiculously entertaining. Also, Twitter was fun for a second again with everyone ragging on Paul George and company. It was a good time. I hope Denver wins the championship. Shameless plug: I wrote about the basketball for Golf Digest, because that’s a thing that is somehow allowed. -G

Funniest Cats and Dogs

Since I feel like I’ve only given you depressing things this week, here’s some cute pets doing weird things. It’s sure to make you smile. -K