SHORT:
It seems the influencer "huddy" who I follow might not be having the amazing time at Coachella that he thot he would have...
he hasn’t released a statement or anything, i can just c it in his eyes…
a man on my train the other day (picture big italian dude in tight shorts) was yelling into his phone about how his friend frank “isn’t mean, he’s just a worry bird”.
maybe huddy is a worry bird too. and coachella is just a lot for him.
anyway he has 11 million instagram followers
and many millions of dollars
onto the next part of the newsletter!
MEDIUM:
This weekend, a famous American wh*stlebl*wer attended the theatrical piece I directed and staged in the attic of a soda cannery.
Can’t make this shit up.
Will the FBI come to my door again for writing about this? Whatever! It’s true! She came. And I needed to tell my fans.
She was wearing cool pants. I told her I liked them, but sort of slurred my words. Apparently I struggle to keep my cool around wh*stlebl*wers. Learn something new every day!
I think the show went well. I, of course, can’t trust anything for sure, because I am in a committed, life-long relationship with doubt (cut to me kissing doubt on the lips). I’m in a poly relationship with the general notion of doubt, my gf Jessica, and Cinnabon’s “Center Of The Roll” treat that they sell…
… altho I’m currently a little miffed, as I was kindly gifted a Cinnabon gift card… and recently tried to use it at the 1 by my house… and they said: “we don’t take gift cards at this location”… … … every trans person has their own unique story and mine is I tried to use my Cinnabon gift card at Cinnabon and they said "we don't take gift cards at this location"…
I will say, when they told me they didn’t take gift cards, I stayed cool as a cucumber…
(I had just come from a run during which I became “extremely moved by the carefree and abundant nature of the ugly geese in Prospect Park” and was feeling rather zen)
After my gift card got rejected, I went home and… had a dream that… a 747 fell out of the sky and onto my head 🙏🕯👍🏻
which definitely means that amazing things r coming my way 🙏🕯👍🏻
LONG:
A lot of people in my grad program write about aliens and summoning ghosts and stuff… I really feel that we have enough freaky stuff going on in this realm, why put time and energy into trying to contact or bring more spirits and dumb bitches into the picture? But also… ppl should follow their hearts.
Anyway, every single time I read their pieces on seances and ghosts, I think about the time in 10th grade when my secular all-girls school went on a “team-building retreat” at a catholic camp in the mountains.
We used a Ouija board to try and contact Amy Winehouse and it “didn’t work” and then a girl named Lindsey tried to “lift the mood” by performing a one-woman “Hard Knock Life” with a broom she found under one of the bunk beds. I think she works at Google now.
I recently watched the Brené Brown series on HBO Max where she wears a nonbinary outfit (jean jacket, long skirt) and says things like: “one of the most socially acceptable ways for men to process shame is rage” and “having the right language can help deepen your connection with yourself which, in turn, can help deepen your connection with others.”
Brené uses movie clips to talk about how most of us don’t label our feelings the right way because we lack the vocabulary/ training, and the weird pain we feel from all that mislabeling shows up in the brain at the level of the pain we feel spilling hot coffee on our hands (which, if experienced repeatedly, can cause a lot of damage yada yada).
So emotional granularity and accurate labels are actually key to being able to properly connect with yourself and others… language does not just communicate what we’re feeling, it shapes it… and the whole thing made me feel like less of a freako snowflake for needing specific pronouns and shit (hereeee we go…)
THE POINT IS
if ur brought up without the right words for things ur feeling, then u don’t know how to navigate emotion and the world,
so that’s why i don’t know quite how to navigate being a dumb idiot b*tch c*nt boy king smoking hot nerd ass genderf*cked genius :)
cuz i didn’t grow up hearing that language :)
but i will make sure to use it around my kids :) <3
I think i got the right takeaways from the Brené televisual program :)
…
Sadly… I must stop writing this now
because my trash smells
and I need to take it out…
… taking out the trash is so hard…
there’s climbing Everest… and then there’s taking out the trash…
… in porn when they r like “how hard r u”, the other person should b like “as hard as taking out the trash, if not harder” (and then the other person would b like “holy shit, so like… rly hard”).
My gf walked multiple miles to Michaels the other day to get a “doily” for her vegan carrot cake to “sit on so that it looks more presentable”… I struggle to walk down the hall to the trash room… :)
We’re all different :)
And that’s what makes this big wide world and life beautiful :)
<3 C u next Tuesday <3
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Reid
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