Hi friends!
Now that the strains of “My Heart Will Go On” have finally faded, I would like to honor a moment of silence for the absolute social media hootenanny that was the Titan submersible. Last week was special, and we reached a new high, or low, depending on who you ask. But to me it felt like, as the TikTok soothsayers say, a jump to our most abundant timeline. We deserved that and we earned that. We have been through so much together, and we needed that moment, collectively turning our backs on the notion of “too soon” to cackle freely at some of the best work the extremely online community has ever presented.
Dark clown supremacy is just where we’re at now, culturally. I simply can’t do life straight-faced anymore, not in a world where both Grimace and the Titanic have infiltrated the collective consciousness in such a startling way. In an our unhinged era where hard-won rights are being stripped away and economic uncertainty hangs heavy in the air, we need a way to cope.
We’re…