🎼 Take Me Home, Country Roads — Lana Del Rey

I like Lana, but I’ve come to the conclusion I only ever need to listen to her music once. It’s like a movie you think is great, but know you’ll never want to watch again.

🐛 The Grub Journal

Whelp, I did it. I started another newsletter where I plan to send a quick grub sketch (roughly) everyday with a couple sentences about how it ties to my day. Not expecting many people to sign-up, but you can see yesterday and today’s Grubs in the archive.

🛰️ The Outer 1 — foofaraw

First issue of the webcomic I’m working on with Garrett Elton went out this morning in the newsletter. It’s been a blast putting this together. Would love it if you checked it out.

🤘 Furiosa — Trailer

Don’t think I can wait until May… Anya Taylor-Joy was obviously great casting, but I’m surprised how much I enjoy Hemsworth as Immortan Joe in the little we actually see of him.

📓 Creative People and their Notebooks — Noted

💬 Jean-Michel Basquiat:

I cross out words so you will see them more: the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

Wow… I love that.

🏈 Aaron Rodgers Now Puttering Around Practice Fields Trying To Shock People — Defector

At this point, I wish he’d just go away… (unrelated to my feelings as a Bears fan)

🌧️ Fighting Seasonal Depression — Skoobz

Put an album on, go for a walk, or cook. I also endorse writing your feelings out, like I’m doing now. Whether it’s a blog or a journal, it’s all good.

I was hoping being in Napa would solve this for me, but after a few sour days it caught up with me a bit still.

We’re all in these winter months together.

👖 Should clothes never go on sale? — Blackbird Spyplane

This was a really great examination of discounting, especially as my inbox got inundated with ridiculous e-mail subjects: “LAST CHANCE”, “60% off”, and so on.

👥 P&B: Robin Rendle — Manuel Moreale

This was my favorite edition of People & Blogs so far. Really great to get more insight into Robin’s thoughts around his terrific site.

🥪 “If Moonrise Kingdom had a sandwich shop”; People People rebrands Seattle eatery — It’s Nice That

I’m personally not a fan of Layers (fine sandwiches, but overpriced, even for Seattle), but I dig the rebrand.

📱 Ex-Apple employees new startup wants to bring AI to the desktop — The Verge

Unclear exactly what this will look like, but given it’s coming from the founders of the Workflow app, I bet it’ll be hard to ignore.

🎸 Best Emo Songs of All Time — Variety

It’s not a perfect list, but it’s pretty solid.

🤖 Writing with AI — iA Writer

They are on part two of three of this series before debuting their AI integration, but both are worth reading.

👾 Nobody Needs To Know How Many People Are Playing A Singleplayer Video Game. Nobody! — Aftermath

I don’t pay much attention to video games (as evidenced by my newsletter), but this idea of knowing what metrics are relevant is applicable in so many other areas as well.

🔤 Indicate Mono — Jonas Type

Nice WIP Pay-what-you-want monotype font that’s worth checking out.

🏛️ Pentagon Fails Sixth Audit in a Row, Cites Progress — The Intercept

What I’m talking about is progress sort of beneath the surface…

What a joke.

🤖 Sam Altman joins Microsoft as OpenAI taps Emmett Shear for interim CEO — CNN

What a wild saga. I wonder if MSFT can/will try to weasel out of their investment as they get up and running.

🦖 The creators of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters aren’t just trying to make a Godzilla spinoff show — The Verge

The movies are where the buildings get knocked down, but this show is where people are getting up again, dusting themselves off, and figuring out, “What does my life mean now when my world has changed entirely?”

Consider me all in on the MonsterVerse. Plus writer/producer Matt Fraction is the comic book writer behind Sex Criminals, Hawkeye with David Aja, and Adventureman.

📱 With Amo, the founder of Zenly wants to make social apps social again — TechCrunch

Their first app, ID, looks super interesting and reminds me of Kinopio. I love collage type things, but question how it works as a “social app”.

🤖 OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO — The Verge

What a wild situation. Feels like the original decision either wasn’t thought out, was short sighted, or petty/only a minor miscommunication.

🎙️ The Mountain Goats — How Long Gone

I’ve tried a few times to get into The Mountain Goats, but never could. This interview with John Darnielle has me giving them another go. Let me know if you have suggestions for where to start.