Our Cruelty Killed Hootie and the Blowfish and Damaged Our Souls

For 2019, we need forgiveness for what we did in 1996. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       How Our Cruelty Killed Hootie and the Blowfish—and Damaged Our Souls   We stand at the dawn of a new year, and it is our duty to make it less excruciating than the one that came before. There are many predictable ways to go about it, for instance, by limiting our exposure to the raw sewage of social media and sleeping more. But there is something deeper, more difficult, and no less necessary: we must reckon with what we have done to Hootie and the Blowfish. Read More           The Only Mantle Mitt Romney Might Seize Is Being the Biggest Fake in American Politics   When the new Congress is sworn in on Thursday, Willard Romney, allegedly the same man who once bragged about being better on LGBTQ issues than Ted Kennedy, who wanted to run for president in 2000 as the Republican governor who got Massachusetts a healthcare plan, and who ran 12 years later as a "severe conservative" who didn't even recognize the Republican governor he once allegedly was, will be sworn in as the junior senator from Utah. I say it's "allegedly" this same person because the question of whether or not he is an unprincipled reprogrammable android is still quite open. It is open because, lo and behold, in Wednesday's Washington Post, something like Romney 4.0 (or 5.0—I lost count sometime around his Dinner With Donald) has produced an essay by which the most recent Romney iteration appears to be aiming to replace Jeff Flake as the Most Deeply Furrowed Republican Brow in the Senate. Read More           Pete Davidson Jokes About Louis C.K.'s Death in New Stand-Up Material   In a stand-up set on New Year's Eve, Pete Davidson discussed Louis C.K. and the times he hosted Saturday Night Live before admitting to sexual misconduct with five women. As you might have guessed, he did not have kind things to say. Read More           The Outfit-Making Shearling Coat You Can Actually Afford   No matter what you're wearing it with it, a shearling coat takes your whole cold-weather look to another level. The only problem, for a long while, has been how hard it is to track one down that's actually affordable—and cut for real life. While there's nothing wrong with an OG B-3 bomber, sometimes you want something that channels all that old-school cool but still works right now. (And it doesn't hurt if it doesn't wreck your checking account in the process.) That's where The Arrivals' Odin version comes in. Read More           Is the 'Choose-Your-Own' Nature of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch a Good Thing for Cutlure?   Though it's a dizzying achievement, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the newly released choose-your-own-adventure installment of the popular Netflix series, is more gimmick in search of a home than a fully-realized example of storytelling in gaming, film, or whatever intersection of the two it represents. It retreats into meta winking for a lack of anything more interesting to say—there's nothing exactly new about musings over free will, and Bandersnatch has little to add to that discussion. Read More           What a Stranger Taught Me About Love at an Airport Restaurant   Esquire's Justin Kirkland writes about a chance meeting at an American Tap Room in Washington D.C.'s Ronald Reagan National Airport, how it taught him about love and tradition, and helped him make it home for the holidays. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2019 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019