Modest Operations | Newsletter Volume 6

Happy New Year! Here's to a great 2019.

This Week's Links A list of things I've been reading & thinking about.* "When Congress created the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1972, a Democratic lawmaker from Michigan won a provision that prohibits the federal government from regulating gun safety. Firearms are the only product for which the government cannot issue a mandatory recall." - He Testified Against His Son, But Came to Blame the Gun (Casey Parks for The Trace) * "This is because booze is really about displacement. Drinking is actually about saying ‘it’s nice to see you and I’m in a good mood and there are lots of things worrying me at the moment drinking allows me to forget briefly. Please don’t suggest I have a dependancy problem and ruin it for me.’" - The Unifying Theory of Alcohol (Dan Kieran for Medium) * "“We’re the Tumblr band, really, in every sense,” he said, describing the demographic and conceptual overlap: “Young girls, kind of an idealistic sense of romance, edgy but actually kind of beautiful, and you can play it in your mom’s car.”" - Can a Quote-Unquote Band Drag Rock Into the Future? The 1975 Is Trying Its Hardest (Joe Coscarelli for The New York Times * "But he 'wasn’t putting any seeds in the ground,' he says. 'I was in panic mode.'" - The Search for Good Vibes: How Theophilus London Lost, Then Found His Glow (Brad Wete for Billboard)