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Worth The Click
Recent things I’ve found worth clicking on, including “hey, did you know” podcast episodes, a pop culture game, coloring book drama, investigative journalism and more!
Even before you get to the staggering amount of intentional cruelty unfolding right now, the borked algorithms, clickbait, and everything being owned by the same shitheads has made it feel like you have to wade through a ton of garbage to find interesting things. But they still exist.
Even the talent that went into showing all this talent is something!
American Hysteria meets You’re Wrong About
If you’re curious about the real history of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, Sarah Marshall — from the podcast You’re Wrong About — went onto Chelsey Weber-Smith’s American Hysteria podcast for a dive into the history and behind the curtain look. I love this podcast format where one person researches something and tells the other person all the “hey, did you know!” info like a story.
The Things We Don’t Talk About
When both of my grandparents died they left behind a home filled with a lifetime of belongings. It needed to be sorted through and it’s a monumental task that as a society we don’t talk about because we are terrible about talking about anything related to death. It’s why I appreciate Patricia Elzie-Tuttle’s new newsletter/blog Optimistic Hoarder where she is taking on the task of going through her mother’s belongings, one box at a time.
Drama in the coloring book world!
Coloring books, especially for adults, is meant to be a relaxing hobby and yet some humans have found a way to inject it with drama! More Bold Than Cozy: Drama In The Coloring Book Community—What It Is and Why It Matters
Investigative journalism
These are not easy reads, they have graphic details of sexual assault, but both are stories that show the importance of journalism, specifically investigative.
In Neil Gaiman’s case even after women came forward accusing him of assault, publishing was very quiet—as if maybe staying quiet would make it go away and not hurt their bottom line. After Vulture published Lila Shapiro’s There Is No Safe Word the publisher Dark Horse Comics cancelled Gaiman’s future work with them.
After the Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro died her daughter Andrea wrote about being sexually abused by her stepfather. For The New Yorker Rachel Aviv wrote a deeply researched piece, Alice Munro’s Passive Voice, that really peels back the layers on “celebrated X was also a monster” while giving voice to Andrea along with family members, showing that this was not an unknown secret but rather every adult in Andrea’s life had failed her—as did the media.
Daily pop culture distraction!
Vulture has a fun, daily game that puts your film knowledge to the test. Every day there’s a new grid that lists three people (Actors, directors, etc) and three categories (title with three words, Oscar nominated film) and you have to guess the correct answer for each box which seems really easy unless your brain immediately empties the second you’re asked a question.
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