Introducing The Bathroom Break!

We made a satire blog!

Lunch reads from around the web...since 2013! //   //   View this email in your browser Like Satire? We all do! Right? Please... We thought we'd dip our feet into the totally not over-saturated world of satire and parody. And with that humble thought, we created The Bathroom Break! TBB will be a new square at the bottom of TLR and will feature a weekly satirical blog post written by our new writers Erin McLaughlin & Peter Clark-Deutsch. We're starting small with a review of Jordan Peele's (director of Get Out) new film, Us. Enjoy your lunch. - Today's Menu - Where #MeToo Came From, and Where It's Going "The movement is moving the culture beneath the law of sexual abuse." Appetizer (7 min) | The Atlantic Can the legacy of trauma be passed down the generations? "Our children and grandchildren are shaped by the genes they inherit from us, but new research is revealing that experiences of hardship or violence can leave their mark too." Entrée (9 min) | BBC Fans Are Reportedly Upset With Soulja Boy For Not Delivering Products They Ordered From His Online Store Customer Support Tell'em. Starter (3 min) | Uproxx Grindr turns 10: How a decade with GPS 'dating' apps changed us all Grindr finally confirmed the long standing myth that yes, there are in fact sexy singles in your area. Appetizer (7 min) | NBC News Worried about the stock market declining? "The Wall Street Journal called art their best investment of 2018, returning 10.6%."  If you're looking to re-allocate some of your investments to other asset classes before the market declines, check out Masterworks. Sponsored Snack by Masterworks Earth is (always has been) round, so why have the flat-out wrong become so lively? If all your friends jumped off the edge of the Earth, would you? Entrée (9 min) | ars Technica What Will Happen When Machines Write Songs Just as Well as Your Favorite Musician? Is it that song that goes "bee-boo-boo-bop, boo-boo-beep" or "bee-boo-boo-bop, boo-boo-bop?" Dessert (5 min) | Mother Jones Opinion: How America's Pastime Became So Slow I don't care if I ever go back. Dessert (2 min) | NPR Get Out Director Jordan Peele's Latest Film Us Is Everything You'd Expect From Get Out Director, Jordan Peele, Director of Get Out (The Bathroom Break) This is a video of The Terminator riding on a bike while chasing a very small horse. Come with me if you want to love. If you're like me and sad that you finished season 3 in a couple days, here is five hours of the Fab Five dancing. Because "why not?"- Hilary Duff. Songs That My Friend John Says Are Cool Sunflower by Vampire Weekend ft. Steve Lacy -- You Had Your Soul With You by The National -- Small Victories by The Lemon Twigs -- STMFJSAC Spotify Playlist @AlisonLeiby: Stop making new flavors of Diet Coke. The original flavor, chemicals, is already perfect. So long, farewell, uhhh off veedershen...goodnight. See you next week! Share Tweet Forward Send The Lunch Read to a Friend! Written and curated by Tommy, Alexis, John, Kristin, Melissa, Colleen, and Adam Copyright © 2019, All Rights Reserved.  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list