Hello my fellow cogs in the machine!
This is The Deviant Dispatch. I’m Mo, your guide to the underground world of Brooklyn and beyond. It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Fridaaaayyy. By “get down” I mean get to typing away for you, my lovely subscribers. You are the real ones, the ones that matter. I love you. Say it back.
I’m especially feeling the weight of the market system this week. Dolly Parton has updated 9 to 5 to be about your second job, because one isn’t enough anymore! In a gross Superbowl ad (WHY is there a Superbowl this year?) Dolly rewrites her working class anthem to include working AFTER you clock out of your office job. It’s the updated anthem for our modern hellscape where you’re expected to have a main job AND a side hustle that secures you food/rent/loan payments. It’s all possible with Squarespace! Thanks Dolly. 🙄🤢🤮
Fortunately I’m not the only one who is realizing how horrid self-optimization is. My pal Jacob has written about the pain of promoting your work online for his column Ok Zoomer. The whole thing is a great read, but this passage in particular is my fave
That careers live and die by the feed is now accepted fact. But it doesn’t make playing the game easier to stomach.“It’s like throwing shit at a wall and being embarrassed that no one watches it slide down,” a friend, clearly a writer, says of advertising his newsletter on Twitter and Instagram.
I wonder who the friend is!?!? Anyway read the column here and for goodness sake share it online.
The fact that a creative’s success in the rat race is so dependent on social media compounds the despair. The writer Mimi Zhu (who was behind Comrade Britney) had this to say in her newsletter.
True belonging doesn’t exist in the hustle or on Instagram. I hope you find this belonging and the sense of peace that comes with it, dear subscriber.
Other relevant quotes that I want to share:
Darling I’ve told you several times before I have no dream job. I do not dream of labor.
and
You need to get done, done, done, done at work, come over. We just need to slow the motion.
and
I’m getting a Gucci stick and poke. It’s cheaper than therapy!
See you in the mines!
XOXO
Mo
Miscellaneous Gossip
The Zoom party Club Quarantine is doing a Sophie Tribute night this Saturday
Spirit of The Beehive has a new record coming and a new song out now
Ashley Reese of Jezebel summarized the left’s misplaced beef with AOC
Artist and performer Disssgrace is having a talent show Sunday at 7pm EST on their Instagram
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