The Sunday Digest 024

Hot Hair Summer, Things I Digested This Week, and more.

Welcome to The Sunday Digest — a free Sunday newsletter featuring long (and some short) reads, original columns, things I’ve saved over the last week, relaxing playlists, episodes releases, exclusive product drops, and more. Yes, you can reply to this email. I’d love to hear from you. Or, if podcasts are more your speed on Sundays, we’ve got that too.

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New Episode: Four-Day Workweeks, Good Mail Days, and The Grocery Store Meditation

A look at transitioning to a four-day workweek to hopes of improving your work/life balance, the beauty of a trademark Good Mail Day, and a meditation aiding in getting you to the grocery store on your hungover Sunday.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are found.

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Sunday Read: Hairy Dudes, Rejoice, It's Gonna Be a Hot Hirsute Summer

by Jason Diamond for GQ

I was the first of my friends to grow leg hair. I hated it.

I had a ratty mustache in 1999 that my aunt made me shave the night we entered Y2K. I will always be thankful for her forcing me to do so.

Even today, I trim my beard meticulously because I don’t want people to think I’m an unkempt caveman. But per GQ, this may be the summer when I can finally embrace my body hair with no reservations — from my toes all the way up to my beard.

From this week’s Sunday Read:

But why does body hair seem to go in and out [of style]? It’s not an item of clothes or a particular style; you’re either hairy or not. W. David Marx, author of the upcoming book Status and Culture, about the origin of fashion trends, explains, "History shows us that humans can find both hairy and hairless attractive, so culture is always likely to oscillate between those two poles over time. Right now clean grooming is so conventional that going wild becomes the distinctive status move. And that then gives us a newfound appreciation of Seventies actors' extremely natural approach to body hair."

Read in full here.

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Six Things I Consumed This Week

• The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman. While I can’t recommend it yet (as I’ve only finished the first couple chapters), maybe this can be an under-the-radar book for The Sunday Scaries Book Club.

• One (1) hour per day of Love Island UK. While I know it’s probably an unhealthy guilty pleasure, I can’t take my eyes off The Villa this season. Gemma, while not likable yet, has simply yielded too much drama. Highly recommend, but don’t tell anyone I was the one who recommended it. And yes, because it hasn’t been released on Hulu yet, I’m solely watching it through sketchy websites I find on Reddit.

• Enough Benadryl to kill a small animal. Whether I got my sinus infection from one of the three flights I took last weekend or I got it from someone at the Dead & Company concert at Dodger Stadium, I highly suggest avoiding contracting whatever’s been going around lately.

• Music from Internet Archive. While it pains me to listen to music anywhere but Spotify (you know, where I pay for it), the aforementioned Dead & Co. concert had me somewhat obsessed with listening to old Dead shows there — specifically Grateful Dead Live at The Strand Lyceum on May 26, 1972.

• Hustle on Netflix. I’m loving Adam Sandler’s transition to more serious roles lately and Hustle was no different. While I didn’t love the movie enough to ever watch it again, it was a phenomenal way to kill two hours on a flight.

• Bean & Cheese Quesadillas. Being sick for the latter half of the week meant that my motivation to cook was at an all-time low. My solution? Eating the remains from the bean and cheese quesadillas we make for our son. While they don’t compare to Taco Bell quesadillas (“No Fiesta Sauce, please”), they’ve saved me from eating canned soup all week.

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Things I Saved This Week

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The Sunday Haiku: Decisions

Wicks trimmed, wine is poured,

Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Rom-Com,

Mail… or Seattle?

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