🍃Highhhhhhhhh folks!

Dan here, the person who organized MUNCHIES MEET UP in October at Olly Olly Market.

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I’ve got an Extra fun EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT below - make sure to come say hi on 12/9 for FOOD HALL FIGHT NIGHT 🏆 at Olly Olly for an ~*infused*~ throwdown featuring their amazing vendors!

BUT FIRST: a rant. WHaT a WoRLd.

How this rock keeps spinning, I’ll never know.

As a writer of more than 10 years, I’m often encouraged to journal, and I shy away from this in a major way.

Would I complain about things, like when gossiping (really a way of pleading my existence) to friends, presuming the diary to be a safe space?

Would I chronicle the nearly uncountable tragedies we watch unfold in our palms all day and night?

Would I mask all of my human shortcomings and write like writers do, pretending to be some great thinker (like I do here?).

I’ve cried more tears this year than I thought possible, fought more battles than I ever could see coming, and yet, I’m deeply aware of how lucky I am to even exist.

Watching events pour our of my phone like a mudslide of human suffering, knowing that at any moment the plug could be pulled on us, too, I wonder about the futility of a journal.

Then I see the stack posted on Plestia’s account, and I feel like an utter fool. What better resistance than to keep affirming, in writing, somewhere, that we exist?

I’m privileged to have been paid for those periodic affirmations, to have said them in a public place, but I also know first hand what it’s like to have them deleted. To scream into an algorithm that thwarts your every syllable.

On paper, online, no matter how many times it’s uplifted or destroyed, our freedom is intertwined. My freedom and Plestia’s are intertwined, my freedom and Palestine’s freedom are intertwined.

Land Back is the only way forward, starting here at home. For the climate, for indigenous justice, and for the human race. If you think Land Back means you or anyone else has to leave, you should have looked this up during Standing Rock.

The youth will not settle for the crap we have put up with.🫡

LATEST WORK: 😎💨

There’s still time to grab an advent calendar to celebrate your odd and quirky self and loved ones. I found literally the weirdest ones possible.

You’re welcome!

INFLUENCED: Buying Insights 📲

Key Lime Pie at Au Cheval🥧

When we serve each other with high standards, we all get something out of the exchange. Resentment is a bad pie, but it’s also a bad tip. Service is a fleeting and deeply human give and take, pie is temporary.

9/10 🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧

Typology Paris Soothing Mask Salve 💋

This is what skincare is all about. I hate gimmicky products, so when everyone started finally tackling CBD, I had high standards. This gorgeous and green hued mask is packed with squalene and CBD, meaning a penetrating conditioning effect. I don’t even bother washing this off 🙃

8/10 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿

EEEEvents

Check out these fun events in NYC, the West Coast, and beyond!

Links to Love 💕 or Hate🫀

Performing is no fucking joke. Isn’t that what I do with these newsletters and pieces? But no, seriously, I need to stop being such a baby ass and perform my music for more than my friends. I even die of performance anxiety just doing it for them, but somehow taping and making it content (also a performance) feels OK. The human mind makes no sense🖖

Freedom is important, but at what cost? While I don’t think it’s very fair to ban smoking outright, I don’t think it’s fair that generation after generation wasn’t told how harmful it could be. While this was a groundbreaking chance to make change, it was flawed. 👀

Rest in Peace to Palestinian colleague Bilal Jadallah who helped put together this report from May 2023. He was killed this month in an air strike. As of today, that number has tripled, and twice the amount of media workers killed in 20 years have been killed in Gaza in less than two months. Some assert that the number of media workers who have died is over 74, but CPJ maintains 56 as of 11/28/23.

We are only consuming content from Palestinian journalists in danger, and foreign journalists only enter Gaza under IDF convoy. This leaves space for delegitimization of Palestinian media workers and a dearth of independent media coverage from outside journalists.

People are dying for the content you’re consuming, and then they’re getting called terrorists after the fact. 📣

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Ciao amici 😘😘