Monday Morning quarterback

Sept. 10 - My friend's dad killed someone

NFL football is back and my productivity is gone.

Welcome to the most entertaining newsletter on Gmail (sorry Outlook users, you don’t exist to me).

TikTok: For all the kids who shoved papers in their backpacks

@livscully#stitch with @ℙ𝕒𝕚𝕘𝕖𝔸𝕝𝕖𝕩𝕚𝕤𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕪♡

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I still can’t organize anything.

Essay: The Town Crier

The Town Crier is a satirical newsletter delivered to over 1 trillion subscribers (or at least that’s what it says). This week’s newsletter has some interesting stories, including a Kylie Jenner quote about cows and a joke about Spirit Airlines.

I like this newsletter, because it’s different than every other “news”-newsletter and a little bit more accessible than an Onion article.

Media: The biography of Mary Moody Emerson

Mary was the aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson and she was even more eccentric and bold than her nephew.

• Ralph called her, “the best writer in Massachusetts”

• She was known for her great physical energy, bursting in and out of rooms like a banshee despite her 4’3 stature

• Her obituary in the Boston Commonwealth said she had "the power of saying more disagreeable things in half an hour than any person living."

• She slept in a bed shaped like a coffin

• She lived her entire life in destitution, which she did not seem to mind, and she often wrote about the advantages of poverty

I leave you with a phrase she always said to Ralph and his brothers, “Always do what you are afraid to do."

Quote:

“Society is like a corpse that purges at the mouth”

(And I thought I was an underground man)

Mary Moody Emerson

Experience: Childhood trauma

@impaulsiveclubSean Strickland’s abuse as a child made him a better fighter… #seanstrickland #strickland #israeladesanya #adesanya #ufc #ufc293 #child #trauma

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One of my best friend's dads had a similar upbringing to Sean Strickland. Abusive step father, absent, drug abusing mother. He first smoked weed at 10 years old and started using hard core drugs before becoming a teenager. I’m shocked he survived.

One day in his 20s, he was cut off in traffic and flipped the dude off. The dude he flipped off got mad and got out of his car to fight challenge my friends’ dad to a fight. Bad idea.

My friend's dad looked at his friends in the backseat and said, "Watch this." He got out of the car, walked up to the guy, and gave him the filthiest right hook of his life. Knocked him out cold. He and his friends drove off laughing.

The next day, the LAPD showed up at his house with a murder warrant. He killed him. So yeah, Sean is probably right.

Bonus:

At one point in my life, I was one of these frat boys. However, I never dressed like any of these losers, in fairness to myself.