Man, What The Hell? Hooo Boy Edition

Plus: dildos, defense contractors, and a baffled king composing 'Hallelujah.'

This newsletter was supposed to go out last week, but some Life™, as it frequently does, intervened: I got Covid (again), got laid off (again) and had a birthday (again) — all in the span of five days.

Suffice it to say, it’s been a Real Cool Time over here lately. And yet I beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the blog. Man, what the hell?