Content Consumed: Jeanette McCurdy, the end of the world, and more
Good mornin’ and happy Tuesday! I hope you have a thrillingly productive day with plenty of little treats along the way. That’s my goal, at least.
In today’s edition of Content Consumed:
📣 Jeanette McCurdy’s glad her mom died
⚡️ Droughts, floods: the end of the world explained
🗞 An interestingly-timed Ferrari cover on GQ
🎁 New work perk: Hangover leave
“I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jeanette McCurdy
I think we all knew that Nickelodeon, like many companies that exploit talented children, was a sinister place. But imagine leaving that evil workplace every day as a tween, to go back to an even more disturbing place: home.
iCarly star Jeanette McCurdy is very happy that her emotionally, physically, and sexually abusive mother is dead. Her memoir reveals her hellish relationship with her mother—codependency, eating disorders, Munchausen-esque behavior, and generally horrific abuse. It also explicitly details abuse from Dan Schneider, a notoriously evil Nickelodeon exec who she only refers to as “The Creator” in this writing.
It was released today and Celebrity Memoir Book Club (my fave) has already published an excellent episode dissecting it.
Explain like I’m 5:
How droughts and floods happen at the same time
Shoutout to Vox for this one! Because, like many of you, I am constantly confused by the state of our climate. While in the West we suffer droughts and wildfires, other regions of the nation are flooding under torrential rainstorms. How does that happen, and how are they related?
⇒ Our warmer atmosphere is getting thirstier and now takes longer to get saturated with water.
⇒ This means fewer rainstorms.
⇒ But now those storms dump more water at once. So, floods.
⇒ Higher temperatures mean water evaporates faster.
⇒ When it falls, it’s less likely to fall as snow.
⇒ Snow historically feeds many of the American West’s rivers and streams.
⇒ Lifting a drought requires a combo of snowfall and long, sustained rainy seasons instead of short, extreme bursts.
To sum it up: As soil and vegetation in drought-prone regions dry up, they become prone to wildfires and less able to retain water, so when extreme rainstorms roll in, they trigger floods and erosion.
Ferrari, GQ, and losing the championship (maybe)
There’s technically, mathematically, a chance that Charles Leclerc of Scuderia Ferrari could win the 2022 World Driver’s Championship, and that his teammate Carlos Sainz could help propel the team to a Constructors win as well. But it’s unlikely.
Nonetheless! GQ toured the Italian headquarters with the “boyish, enthusiastic” Leclerc and “more modest, lightly brushed by melancholy” Sainz. The writer says of Leclerc: “You can easily imagine him as the prioritized singer in a boy band.”
I wonder when exactly this article was written—during a bout of DNFs in late spring? Or another time in the season, while Ferrari’s strategy has been ripped apart by the media after every single race?
Within the Ferrari compound, it is a shock to hear the team’s recent failures discussed freely. Past seasons were miserabile. Un disastro. So say executives in shirtsleeves as they down espressos. So say white-coated employees who’ve stepped outside laboratories to vape. Far from being disloyal, their frankness speaks to a present confidence that some corner has been turned, putting better days in sight, if not this season, then next.
New work perk: Hangover leave
Imagine this:
You wake up on a Thursday to your alarm, significantly more obnoxious than usual, screaming at you. Telling you to get your debilitated ass out of bed and get to work. Your head’s pounding, because wine night got out of control and you didn’t drink enough water or eat enough dinner and you’re still in your mid-twenties and you should give yourself a break, okay?
Introducing “hangover leave”, a new work perk. A new poll published by Inc. says that 23% of adults want this option from their work. I’m personally unsure how it’s different from a regular sick day… but hey. Whatever works.
And that’s it for this Tuesday! Enjoy the rest of your day and I’ll catch ya tomorrow.
Saludos,
Casey
