The pros and cons of pros and cons

Links and comics about newsletters, Dan Oshinsky, Massachusetts, Charles Darwin

Hi, I’m Edith, and this is a newsletter with links, personal writing, and comics. It’s a work in progress, and I’d love to know what you think.  

Note: I’m mostly trying to send these comics out in chronological order, but here are a few from last week. There’s also a call to action in the middle, in which I ask for questions to potentially answer, in future installments of this newsletter. As always, please feel free to just hit reply to this email!

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January 23, 2020

Links:

• Dan Oshinsky: Not a Newsletter (also his consultancy Inbox Collective)

Also, seriously, if there’s something you’d like to see more of in this newsletter, please let me know! And if you have any kind of question you’d like me to answer (AMAKOQAA?), or any kind of question that I could pass on to another mystery person to answer (Such as: What is the first personal shame that to comes to mind? What is love? Who do you wish were making a newsletter? The last good email you sent: What was it about?), please respond to this newsletter and let me know. This would all be totally anonymous (or not); I’m definitely making this up as I go along.

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January 23/24, 2020

Links:

• “Darwin on Marriage,” Darwin Correspondence Project

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Also, more links, crunched this time and undrawn:

• “Cats with threatening auras.” 

• “I still ravaged my fingers but not my feet. I didn’t need the doll pressed to my face.” [Nicole Cliffe]

• “Over the years, I came to believe that this painting is a Rorschach test, a magic trick, a sleight of hand.” Novelist Christina Baker Kline argues for removing “Christina’s World” from the MoMA, in the Boston Globe. 

• Draw Your Island.

• “…it is some of the most interesting people-watching in the world." I very much enjoyed this Davos-themed installment of the newsletter Why Is This Interesting.

• “A Frisbee, pushed by the wind, rolling on a frozen lake in Maine. I repeat: you have to turn on the subtitles to fully enjoy this.” [YouTube via Metafilter] 

• “I lay there and watched the one I love sleeping.” Glenn Ganges on Drawn & Quarterly’s Instagram. (“All lying there in the dark… I know just how they felt.”)