Earthquakes + A Familiar Starbucks CEO + The End of Political Endorsements + Gaga ... Bruno + RIP Wally Amos + Melbourne Symphony Orchestra + #JusticeForNimbus
No surprise here … let’s talk about Honey first.
HoneyBaby has actually turned into BabyHoney and has entered this really deep attachment phase where she has to be physically touching me 24 hours a day. I sleep on a sliver of bed and my bones hurt every morning. If I lock her out of the room, she’ll sit outside of the door and cry. As I write this, she’s staring at me.
She’s bored at home, but still too much of a nut to sit with me at a cafe or venture anywhere really beyond weekend puppy class. I read somewhere that means she’s finally feeling at home and comfortable (…great!), but also it’s kind of like having a permanent dog child glued to your hip, between every step you’re taking in the kitchen, and under every pile of laundry you’re trying to fold.
With all that said, I’m going to get back into the habit of the free weekly essay. Expect one this week.
Anyway, what else. Terrifying earthquake on Monday. Full moon tomorrow. Mercury’s retrograde finally ends in 10 days. Do you feel it?
Yes.
Chipotle’s CEO Nods, Winks His Way To Starbuck’s CEO (FastCo)
BTW, How Is Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Doing? The Usual… (CorporateGossip)
Roc Nation Lays Off, And Merges, And Shari Bryant Is Out (Vibe)
The YSL Trial Is On The Fulton County Ballot ….? (Billboard)
The Plot To Steal Graceland (BBC)
Sonos Laysoff 100 Employees Amid “App Crisis” (Verge)
After Pulling Music From TikTok, UMG Expands Meta Music Partnership (PR Newswire)
The CDC Finally Tells Doctors About Pain Management For IUD Insertions (Healthline)
Ilhan Omar (D-MN) wins primary (Minnesota Star Tribune)
The Minnesota Star Tribune will join 200 other publishers and not endorse political candidates this year (Are you guys paying attention?)
Wally Amos great migrated his way out of Tallahassee in 1948 to New York City and then to Los Angeles where he enjoyed (edit: did not enjoy) a short-lived stint as William Morris’ first black talent agent. The corporate racism there stalled his career and forced him to quit, unsurprisingly. With the help of a few friends, and a loan from Marvin Gaye, he ventured out onto his own and launched Famous Amos, the world’s first chocolate chip cookie shop. The rest is motherfucking history.
The famously pitched roof of the original Famous Amos flagship at 7181 Sunset Blvd. lived on in Brazilian restaurant Bossa Nova, before they abandoned the space just a few years ago.
Amos was 88 years old.
“OUR LOVE IS THE ONLY WAR WORTH FIGHTING FOR” - Lady Gaga
(Yes, it was in all caps)
Apathy, brought to you by Universal Music Group.
This week, Bruno Mars, fresh out of debt and free to leave Vegas (jk), and Lady Gaga released a song whose full version I have yet to listen to. In its lyrics, in its promotion and in its title, “Die With A Smile,” is the dangerously dissonant theme of “nothing matters but us.” Gaga herself stamping her promotion with the all-caps caption: LOVE IS THE ONLY WAR WORTH FIGHTING FOR.
It is, sure, but also it’s not. Right? There are real actual wars going on, real worlds actually ending. You know how airlines edit out plane crash scenes in their in-flight movies?