Pet Voices, Super Heroes, & The Last Lunch Read Of 2019!

Heyo it's Lunch Read Time!!!

Lunch reads from around the web...since 2013! //   //   View this email in your browser That's All Folks! Welcome to the LAST LUNCH READ EVER...of 2019 (and the first week of 2020). I'd make some for Christmas and New Year's day, but y'all wouldn't open it...So you only have yourself to blame. Thank you so freaking much for being a part of this little community. Is there anything we could do better in 2020? Tweet us @thelunchread or email us thelunchread@gmail.com. Happy holidays and happy new year! Enjoy your lunch. - Today's Menu - "You're My Present This Year": An Oral History of the Folgers Incest Ad This ad certainly helped us wake up... Appetizer (7 min) | GQ Why People Pretend to Talk as Their Pets It's because we all just want to be Eddie Murphy circa 1998. Appetizer (5 min) | The Atlantic Click Here to Kill "The dark world of online murder markets" Entrée (9+ min) | Harper's Magazine The Miseducation of the American Boy "Why boys crack up at rape jokes, think having a girlfriend is "gay," and still can't cry—and why we need to give them new and better models of masculinity" Entrée (9 min) | The Atlantic A 43,900-year-old cave painting is the oldest story ever recorded It's a pretty good story but have you ever seen Star Wars? Dessert (5 min) | ars Technica 7 Adventures to Start the New Decade with a Bang This is a good list to read over, pick one or two that sound really cool, and then never leave your house all year. Dessert (6 min) | Outside "Watchmen," "The Boys," and the False Hope That Superheroes Can Save Us In the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a fictional sense of hope that we cling to because otherwise where else will we find it! Oh, it's just Superman.  Dessert (3 min) | The New Yorker Elf on the shelf? More like, shaver on the... listen this mom shaved the word "Elf" into her kid's head and blamed it on Elf on the Shelf. Merry Christmas! Songs That My Friend John Says Are Cool Far East For The Trees by Queens Of The Stone Age -- Bounce: pts I + II by Nate Smith -- Dean Town by VULFPECK -- STMFJSAC Spotify Playlist Ever wonder how crazy colored contact lenses are made for movies? That's a very specific thing to wonder, but you lucked out this time. @twelveoclocke: I thought "Changes" by David Bowie was a Shrek soundtrack exclusive until...too recently, so I stand in solidarity with Billie Eilish Thank you for reading! Let's make 2020 the best year ever. Okay? 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