Good afternoon, everyone. Finishing this letter from my second office, the table under the skylight at Pho John Street. I sort of feel bad that my laptop is out, but everyone else is on their phones.
Over the weekend, I asked Feed Me readers to help me put together a fall playlist. The result is 3+ hours of music, and almost no artist repeats. I discovered a lot of new musicians through this. Hope this playlist gets you through the rest of your afternoon. Feel free to drop more Spotify links in the comments.
Today’s newsletter includes: EMILY DAWN LONG is my favorite party reporter, Substack’s Midterm Election hub is powered by Polymarket, a SCOOP on a new CPG-focused podcast (whose booked guests include Alison Roman and Loonen co-founder Clara Sieg), the Americans participating in “dark nutrition” diets, one of the highest-grossing newsletters on Substack poached a young Wall Street reporter, and a controversial take from The New York Times’s fashion critic.
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Secondhand marketplace Vinted saw an influx of listings suspected to contain items looted during riots in France. Speedy! Luxury stores including Louis Vuitton, Burberry, and Celine were broken into over the weekend. I would’ve been interested to see what exactly was stolen, but Vinted took them down and said they’re acting “against the accounts involved, up to permanent bans.”
Sophie Haigney wrote about Americans who participate in “dark nutrition” – eating raw buffalo brains, raw-milk ice cream, and raw egg yolks – for The New York Times Magazine. Haigney first told me about this story over steak frites and champagne (light nutrition) at Balthazar earlier this summer, after which she journeyed to southeastern Pennsylvania and the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee to speak to Americans who identify as carnivores, biohackers, and Primal-dieters. Many of these people turned to this alternative nutrition lifestyle, particularly raw food, to “fix” a health issue – autoimmune diseases, skin conditions, chronic pain, digestive problems, fertility issues, eating disorders, and psychiatric illnesses. A top comment on the story reads: “There’s a reason humans learned to cook food. They’ll find out eventually.”
From the Feed Me Tip Line: “Greenpoint apparently has a throwback portrait artist?? I haven’t gone yet, but one of my friends did and it looks like a very fun photoshoot.” A few years ago, The New York Times reported on a popular photo studio in LA’s Koreatown called Tom’s One Hour Photo, which was made popular by locals and celebrities like Kacey Musgraves. Greenpoint Glam (the studio this tip is referring to) appears to be going for the same retro look. Not a bad idea for a brand scrambling to figure out a holiday marketing activation…