Aaron Weber

Newsletter: Violent rhetoric and motorsports metaphors

This week’s newsletter covers violent rhetoric, turbulent priests, and the similarities between opportunity hoarding and motorsports regulation. Also some cats, a drug lord, and ghosts.

“Demon-Sperm COVID Conspiracy Summit” (AKA my recent media diet)

Here’s what I’ve been reading lately: nonfiction, a lovely sci-fi novella about tea and robots, some infuriating news, some very silly news, and some excellent newsletters. Also some puppies.

Disco Tempo Cliché Intro

Today’s newsletter is a few weeks late, but it comes up with some good news, some bad news, revisiting a seminal hip-hop album at 20, some Twitter jokes and a cockatoo.

Content Curation & Recommendations

Here are some good articles and stuff, about Lil Nas X, Jason Sudeikis, a dude in Canada who has foresworn money, a bartender in Maine with a hell of a backstory, and more. Also a dog with a funny nose.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

This week’s newsletter explores the moral peril of being a sports fan with a close look at my personal favorite, motorcycle racing.

Tick Tock

This week’s newsletter has a more pleasing than usual ratio of fun things to doomsaying. And a recommendation for a long and excellent profile of TikTok hype houses.

TFW You’ve Done Nothing Wrong

This one’s about police brutality. I suspect that most of my readers (I assume there’s at least one or two of you out there still) are already informed on the subject, so I am not sure why I wrote this. I don’t know what good it will do.

Quit Shopping at Amazon

Seriously, just stop giving extra money to Piss-bottle Jeff.

Hella Dope

Today’s newsletter contains a short description of the differences between the regulatory structure for the parallel medical and recreational cannabis markets in Massachusetts, and also some dogs with very funny noses.

Momentarily Take the Form of an Enormous Bird

Today’s newsletter is about momentarily taking the shape of an enormous bird, a dog with a very long nose, the blockchain, the milkshake duck, further thoughts on the concept of shamelessness, and David Brooks.