Grimace has been euthanized
Happy Monday! I seem to have caught a cold for the first time in, like, four years, and man, these things suck! Why do we still allow this? Not to get controversial, but we should really do away with all sickness and disease. Someone should get on that.
Onto internet things!
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It’s Movie Musical month on I Hate It But I Love It
Jocelyn and I are still talking about movie musicals on our podcast. We talked about how truly terrible a sequel Staying Alive is, and then we talked about the film adaptation of Evita (a move that legit almost made me fall asleep, sorry). And this Wednesday, we’ll be closing out movie musical month with The Last Five Years. You should subscribe, if you wanna be cool! (You can find I Hate It But I Love It in all the usual places, including Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and Pocket Casts.)
TWEETS!
REDDIT!
This one is bad right off the bat:
A couple weeks ago, I had asked my daughter a couple questions. First, if her bf will be ok with her lack of cleanliness of her home when they live together (in my opinion, she doesn't clean enough), and if she will start dressing up more during the day once she lives with him (she works from home).
An employee gets forgotten about, à la Milton from Office Space:
Five months ago my department was shuttered. My boss, several employees, and a few other management people were quietly let go. Some kind of thing happened at the top that caused a lot of people to be let go. By this time I was pretty much using the office as a second home and had not had any real contact with anyone outside of emails and the occasional phone call.
Once this happened I was just coming in to work everyday completing my tasks until they stopped coming. Then I just came in every day waiting until the hammer fell. It never did.
These people are mad because someone told them what they were doing was illegal and they ignored him:
My wife was stopped by the cops and got a citation got the train horn and they towed her vehicle because without a legal horn it was considered unsafe. My wife has to go to court for the illegal horn and we had to pay out the ass for the towing and impound fees plus a mechanic to fix the horn back to a default because I tried and could not. When Jennifer found out she said it was our own fault because Dan told us the horn was illegal. I countered to the 2 of them that he should have been clearer about his credentials at the traffic firm and we would have listened.
Some nice work-related revenge:
On Tuesday, my manager calls me and tells me ABC Company finally sent the data over I requested over two weeks ago. He looked beaten because he knew what was about to happen. I told him who should I walk through the project with because I’m off after Christmas. My manager says, “I’m sorry. But I have to ask you to work. I declined your time next week.”
I asked, “What happens to my vacation time?” My boss says, “I’m sorry. You know the rules. Use it or lose it. I fought for you but HR wouldn’t budge.”
I drafted my resignation letter after the call, set it to delay delivery on Monday at 8am, and closed up shop.
TUMBLR!
(via littlebirdofprey, thread found here.)
(via kumagawa, thread found here.)
(via chillpotato, thread found here.)
And here’s a funny story about a candle that drove a classroom of children bonkers.
TIKTOK!
The legal case that made my career.
Truly a filmmaking masterpiece that we should all watch.
I am guilty of the screen-sharing ritual.
Even cats aren’t immune to onions.
When getting bangs goes wrong.
Someone please 3D print me an octopus.
A brilliant musical collaboration.
The annoying thing about exercising for mental health.
When you’re tired but there are birds.
This guy’s updates on his neighbour suing him over rocks are entertaining as hell.
ARTICLES!
The Baby-Sitters Club Wasn’t Enough for Netflix Anymore, Vulture
The Real Mission Impossible: Saying “No” to Tom Cruise, Hollywood Reporter
What You’re Feeling Isn’t A Vibe Shift. It’s Permanent Change, BuzzFeed News
What White Men Say in Our Absence, The Cut
The Color of Dog Poop, and 9 Other Things That Changed Without You Noticing, LifeHacker
That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat