Here’s a fun little thought experiment: What if instead of this whole quarantine crisis caused by COVID, we were having a global crisis caused by — drumroll, please — corvids? As in crows! Would that feel more apocalyptic than our current scenario?
It’s hard to say, but corvids are definitely having a moment, as Google Trends indicates. Imagine, then, you couldn’t go outside right now because there were too many crows.
Well, I guess Hitchcock already gave us an idea of what that would look like:
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But Don’t Just Take Our Word For It…
This is an *incredible* deep dive on the American alcohol industry and how it makes innovation almost impossible. If you want to understand how hard it was for us to build @drinkhaus, this is a must read:
https://t.co/DUUoPsL09l— Helena Price Hambrecht (@helena) April 15, 2020
“Bosch is very much in the tradition of murder mystery stories that start with one strange crime and then open up into something much larger, until they cover the social and political complexities of an entire city (think Chinatown or L.A. Confidential).” https://t.co/VvCepJxgzj
— Michael Connelly (@Connellybooks) April 15, 2020
Honestly I think I would pay for a subscription to watch livestreams of MEL's editorial meetings. https://t.co/AHzZXWEk2n
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I fear them, but I respect them. https://t.co/bEAFx9dKKW
— Louis Peitzman (@LouisPeitzman) April 14, 2020
I was hoping someone would do a piece about work wives/work husbands. The struggle is real. Whither the Work Wife? https://t.co/M280ZUVH0B
— Kathleen Schmidt (@Bookgirl96) April 14, 2020
Magdalene Taylor
Magdalene Taylor is a staff writer at MEL. She covers internet culture, sex and the online adult industry. She lives in Brooklyn but is from God's Country, Western Massachusetts.
