I’m just happy to be here.
If you’re receiving my first-ever newsletter, it is because you either signed up yesterday and I now have your email OR I already have your email and I am not afraid to abuse it. I am climbing into your inbox like an uninvited friend from a ’90s sitcom who only knows how to enter the premises through the window. (You get to be the main character in this scenario because I am a very selfless and generous person who would like to make you aware that I plan on talking about myself on a bi-weekly basis.)
If you are receiving my first-ever newsletter, you are considered someone near and dear enough to me to probably know that I have been talking about doing this for too long and have chosen not to for even longer. When I think about why, I think of a specific TikTok. Deadpan, blonde, and lounging in what looks like a swamp, a girl aptly named LanaDelRedneck shoots off tweet-like musings (or “cute angel girl rhetoric”) and goes,
“Do I hate myself, or am I just growing and changing so fast that I continue to hate prior versions of myself AND my current self because that's how fast I am changing? I am already in the future.”
This is exactly how I feel when I think about the content I have created and dumped out onto the internet and the content I have yet to create and dump out onto the internet. I am already over whatever this first newsletter is about to say! It’s cringe!
Yet still, while I can’t perfectly explain the purpose of what this bi-weekly newsletter will be, the urge to communicate and share my point of view, as well as my art, continues to tug. I want to get stoned and dissect past seasons of RHONY into smithereens, talk about the new thing that Gen-Z has weaponized against us decrepit millennial wenches, make doodles/collages/lists for my friends, and overshare about things that I will then overthink later.
So I am going to do that, I think? This is my newsletter and my new art-slash-writing project. I am feeling very tender about it. Open it (read it or don’t) and then let it fall into the abyss of your inbox. Every other week, I ask you to please perceive me and immediately un-perceive me, kthx.
My first really real newsletter will find you next week. The theme will be Chaotic Holiday™️.
For now, as I panic about pressing send and what you will think, I leave you with this:
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