How not to compliment women & an absolutely bonkers cover

Welcome to the very fourth Dispatches Weekly Digest. The format might change, the content might change, but here’s one thing that won’t change:

This is only for my coolest friends.

Today’s Schedule of Events

1. A bonkers, little-known cover of a very, very famous song

2. TMI - Joel Ackerman asks me for advice about how to talk to women on set (he’s a director), and why he’s never had a smartphone

3. A recap of everything that got published on the Dispatches this week, including

4. Links to all the Nooners, in a row

Let’s get started!

The Song

I’ve never been a big fan of Radiohead. I respect them a lot, and have nothing against them, but I just never really clicked into whatever it is that obsesses people about them.

But, just like every normal person born in the last half century or so, I love “Creep,” which is hands-down their most famous song.

And, like any very famous song, it’s been covered a LOT.

But this is the best one…

Brandi Carlile has one of the most distinctive and virtuosic voices of our or any other generation. Hearing her let it completely off the leash for this song is an experience you won’t forget.

Listen to it as loud as you can stand.

TMI

This week, my very good friend Joel Ackerman bizarrely seeks my advice about how to talk to women on set (he’s a director).

We also talk about the fact that he’s one of the only people I know who has never had a smart phone.

The Digest

This week, I totally spaced posting a By the Books post, but here are the six Nooners, all in a row:

• #77 (August 5) - Circles of virtue and vice
  Turns out exercise really does make you less hungry

• #78 (August 6) - Go to bed
  The one good habit to rule them all

• #79 (August 7) - Do all things for the love of doing them
  Especially the things you don't like doing

• #80 (August 8) - We've lost all our certainties
  Good riddance

• #81 (August 9) - My best writing advice

  Start writing, and don't edit

• #82 (August 10) - My second best writing advice

  Working with the editing committee

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In Closing…

Two things, real quick.

1. If you want to help me out with the TMI segment, let me know and I’ll set it up.

2. If you’ve got ideas for other segments, also let me know! I want you to get your money’s worth.

Alright, that’s all. Thanks again, and don’t tell the others, but…

You’re my favorite.