The Summer of Loko (bonus pod)
Miss Dina
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I wrote a short essay last month called <a href="https://fingers.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-loko">The Summer of Loko</a>. Here’s how it started: <br/><br/>The year is 2010. Obama is two years in and about to get clowned by the Tea Party. In the next few months, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6-c223DUU">“Airplanes" by B.o.B. feat. Hayley Williams</a> is poised to receive 3.2 bajillion minutes of play on your iTunes account alone. Vaping is in its fringe-y, pre-Juul phase, and Big Tobacco still hasn't totally given up on capturing America's lungs of tomorrow with innovative new combustibles, so if you frequent the right (read: wrong) bars, you might score a few promo packs of Camel Crush, those cigarettes that allow you to downshift from regular to menthol from one drag to the next.<br/><br/>Enter Four Loko…<br/><br/>Today being Memorial Day, Summer 2021 is underway in earnest. Will the post-pandemic party energy match the caffeinated chaos of Loko’s seminal moment? Who knows! But in any case, I’ve recorded an audio version of the essay for those of you that prefer listening to reading. You can listen to it in the player above, or on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/41DJfgSeLTo5dmvaTdLNwu?si=4T6IHvLfSGOSJsrRmf89dA">Spotify</a>. Enjoy the summer, folks. May your immune systems be vaccinated, your Four Loko tallboys full, and your minds as empty as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/27/amazons-mental-health-kiosk-mocked-on-social-media-as-a-despair-closet">Amazon’s gestures towards giving a shit about its workers’ well-being</a>. Onward.<br/><br/>“We don’t celebrate 9/11 that way”<br/><br/>A bar in a Fort Worth strip mall made the rounds on Twitter the other day, see if you can figure out why: <br/><br/>Hmm! The New York Post (I know, I know) <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/9-11-themed-bar-in-texas-gets-dragged-on-twitter/">followed up</a> with the bar in the wake o
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The Summer of Loko (bonus pod)
Miss Dina