Good day to you everyone,
Boy oh boy has the vibe changed since I last came on here to bring you a roundup. Last month, I had some cool things to share like my birthday, and Coco Gauff’s US Open win. Right now… the world is lamenting over the most recent occurances in the Hamas/Israel war over the Gaza Strip.
The scene is hostile (online & offline) and I have chosen to opt out of opinion stating from my very safe home in America. I may be morbid but for as long as humans have made human error there has been war and I have accepted that world peace is an impossibility.
Might never say it on threads or X but, I stand with Palestine. I think to use terrorism as a straw man is typical of colonialist behavior. To react to “terrorism” with irrevocable violence while also aiming to claim Gaza and Palestinian land –– makes it clear that literally any act of retaliation from Palestine would have sparked this level of violence. Israel was already being aggressive in their tactics to settle in Gaza. So here we are witnessing yet another extinction level event with the majority of civilian deaths being Palestinian.
Tragedy.
From another angle, I think the news has become somewhat disruptive to the general psyche, I often wonder about a future where we don’t know whats happening thousands of miles away. Its a very modern experience to come to grips with (in real time) the calamity of the world. In a way we grapple with the news like we engage with trends, reacting with intensity in the instant which wanes to a whisper w/in months. The woes of the internet. Of course, if we didn’t have the internet then you wouldn’t be able to get this newsletter with my fave things found on the internet either so…
Comedy.
This week cactus plant flea market continues its marketing of the Flea 2 sneaker collaboration with Nike. The claymation AD features a rendition of a classic jingle for the Flea Market Montgomery. The viral AD is more than 10 years old but its synth and lyrics are still catchy today.
The Nike Air Flea 2 starting at $350.
If you like Kung Fu Flix
New Video from PinkPantheress,
Throwback RnB Sounds from Brownstone
Andra’s Amazing Amazon Catalog #5
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See the whole catalog at andradaniellelee.com
Made updates to my Endless playlist on Spotify. It works really well on shuffle mode or if you sort the playlist by most recent additions.
That’s all I have for ya’ll this month. Be back in November
:)
Big Love,
Ra