Hello,
Over the weekend, someone, by someone I mean Vanessa (long time reader shout out and Substack has rated you 2/5 stars which does not make any sense) asked me what the process of writing this newsletter is like. It goes kind of something like this:
After the newsletter is published Thursday morning, I start collecting articles that I have read in my notes app
I also collect any interesting videos that I have watched during that week as well
I then go through my photos and screenshots to see if there is anything interesting to share, most of the time nothing
I think about a subject on Monday
By Tuesday, inevitably Wednesday I realize that I have to put together the newsletter
I am usually too tired Wednesday to write this newsletter
By Wednesday night it’s about 95% complete
I review the newsletter Wednesday night/Thursday morning
I schedule to publish usually an hour before 11AM
Then I start to spiral thinking what the hell did I just put out in the world
I should develop a new process. Or hire an intern. I want to write some paragraphs soon.
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On Saturday, Ontario and Quebec was hit with a derecho storm. Daniel and I decided to go for a bike ride 30 minutes before the storm hit us. 20 minutes in, we got the alarm on our phone to seek shelter. When I decided to get off my bike, the wind was so forceful that I fell off my bike onto the street. Luckily, there was no incoming traffic. A stranger picked up my bike. I think I said “thank you”? My bucket hat flew away. My bike chain fell off. We sought shelter at a Loblaw’s with everyone else. About half an hour later, it was sunny again. In that moment, I felt like Tai from Clueless who almost died at the mall.
All this lead to the definition of derecho (deh-REY-cho): a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms.
A pint of Lemon Poppy Seed ice cream from Honey’s which I procured at 9:30PM after a very taxing afternoon.
Homemade cold brew:
The trailer for CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH. I was feeling emotions from the trailer.
Lykke Li on Taking Ayahuasca and Her “Dark and Dirty” New Album at AnOther magazine. “If I look back at my life, the highest highs and the lowest lows have been surrounding love: love has been my drug of choice, and where all my baggage comes from.”
On feeding and releasing the ego with Rachel Nguyen at The Creative Independent. An archive piece, but this stuck with me (CC: this newsletter): “I think I’m inspired by unfiltered creation. We overthink things so much, and we care too much about what other people think.”
Inside Travis Barker's Tranquil Modern Home at Architectural Digest. The interior is nice and tasteful. But culturally, between Travis Barker the brand and his home, it feels really incongruent.
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No one invited me to Laila and Nadia Gohar’s party.
Japanese Breakfast performing Paprika on SNL. A solid performance, per usual.
Overshirt: Inside the Very Chill World of Paa, Menswear's Quietest Brand at GQ. I first heard about the brand from a shop called Neighbour a couple years ago. I didn’t know much about them until this piece. Feels like a new Entireworld. “It’s kind of, what you see is what you get. There's no deep underlying themes. What we do is just an exercise in product development and putting nice stuff out into the world."
If this isn’t a good concert picture, I don’t know what it. Hate the venue, love the band. I only bought tickets to this concert because I got it for $25!
As you know, I haven’t been on IG since March and since then I’ve been informed that the new UX is really, really bad. This past weekend, I felt FOMO. The real life type. I was walking home along Dundas on a Saturday night and everyone was inside a bar or restaurant and I felt like I should have also been at a bar or restaurant but instead I went to bed with a pint of ice cream.
I have plans to do nothing this weekend. But I am also open if the mood strikes.
Perry
Okay I have a few things to say.
1- substack gives reader ratings? Why am I not a 5 star and what will it take? (#hurt)
2- we’re free this weekend for drinks/hang/both
3- have you gathered your articles / pictures / other media yet for next week’s blog? (It’s Thursday evening, I’m keeping tabs)
i thought travis barker’s interior colour scheme would be black and red, but instead it looked like the inside of structube