The Syllabus #5

This week, I bring you the repetitive, the unsurprising, the prurient, the delicious, and the expectedly hilarious but surprisingly insightful.  In that order.  Enjoy.

Back up on my bullshit.  More interesting perspectives about the eternal question - to be or not to be kinda buzzed most of the time?

Florida Man Falls Down Near Bird, Killed By Bird

I feel like RBG probably had a good time on the bench that day.  Behold, the first and only time it will ever sound a little bit fun to work at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

I want to go to there.

I'm nearly finished reading Chelsea Handler's new book, Life Will Be the Death of Me.  I was expecting it to be full of amusing anecdotes about her weird childhood and escapades with drugs and alcohol, and it does not disappoint.  However, I'm also learning a lot about the process of self-reflection and thinking maybe everyone should go to therapy?  It is somehow both more and less navel-gazey than the typical celebrity memoir, and there is a fair amount of generally applicable insight sandwiched in between stories about pilfering pharmaceuticals from her recently deceased mother, and Chow Chows high on Xanax running loose in the first-class cabin.

Millennial Guess Who:
Player 1: Did your person go to Coachella?
Player 2: No.
Player 1: *flips down Rachel* OK does your person smoke recreational meth, and are they tweaking their face off right now?
Player 2: Most definitely.
Player 1: Gotta be Sarah, then.