In the latest newsletter I wrote:

Feeling sorry for myself after a rough morning of writing, I put on the 2003 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster and half-watched while making collages out of kids’ drawings. I felt what Amanda Petrusich wrote in her 9,000 word profile of the band: “When I first saw the movie, I was twenty-four and found the incongruity of it—some guy in a sweater asking Metallica to talk about feelings—funny; now, at forty-two, I find it unbelievably poignant.” (The band members were all my age or younger when the cameras were rolling.)

Something I don’t think everybody notices is that I put little easter egg links in the “hey y’all” and “xoxo” greeting/signoff that appears in every Friday letter. (I stole this from Laura Olin.)

The “xoxo” this week was this sign that their coach Phil Towle tapes to the studio door (which drummer Lars Ulrich makes fun of):