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I was embarrassingly pleased with myself when I came up with the subject line of last Friday’s newsletter, “Midyear in a mid year,” which began:
My kids love to use the slang word “mid” to describe things that are “mediocre or of low quality” or “bad, boring, or inferior in some way.” I thought about the word a lot this week, and what it means to be in the middle of things — mid-year, middle age, etc. My slogan: “mid-life need not be mid.” (Know Your Meme is still a great website for “the olds.”)
Today’s newsletter is a midyear roundup of things I liked in the first half of 2024, including books, music, TV, movies, podcasts, gadgets, and more.
Have I mentioned the newsletter now goes out to over two hundred thousand people? That number blows my mind.