Delia Cai

4 weeks ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

SURPRISE! Bonus Hate Read for you today, because hating on New York calls for a double-whammy at least…✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨A few summers ago, I was driving through what could be charitably called the downtown of Cody, Wyoming when I noticed a bumper sticker on the dark blue Ford F-150 idling ahead of me at a red light. “Wyoming is Full” it said.

4 weeks ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨When I was a kid, I would watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 and laugh at all the references I didn’t understand. My favorite joke was when one of the robot puppets just rattled off the names of a bunch of B-movie actors and has-been celebrities for a full minute, uninterrupted. I didn’t recognize any of them, but somehow that didn’t matter.

4 weeks ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨There is a mythic creature around which a sizable part of today’s parenting-chat revolves, a fictional character without whom much of what many parents say and do would simply have no meaning: the “judgy mom.” Everyone talks about the judgy mom but no one is her. She haunts nightmares, she animates defensive tyrades both on and off the internet.

1 month ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨It is truly possible to have too much of a good thing. It’s like gorging yourself on macarons until you throw up, or bingeing a show for so long that your eyes start to cross. And such is the case of the Instagram 20-photo carousel. The original 10-photo carousel was splendid. Perfect, even.

1 month ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨ Look, it’s been 20 years. Maybe it’s time to call it. Maybe it’s time to manage my expectations and be way less ambitious about how happy I’m supposed to be. Perhaps it’s time for peace. Surrender. Capitulation. Like, why am I clinging heedlessly to this childish dream of living in New York and being a writer when there are clearly other paths?