LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "Why Halloween Became a Nightmare For Me" Edition
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JUST TO KICK THINGS OFF:
Student
Brown University, October 2014
What a nightmare!
And I don't mean the thing that scary costumes on Halloween gave me.
I mean my experience, last Sunday, when I tried to have a "Halloween" edition and, after sending it as per normal, Mailchimp let me know that a only a fraction of the usual subscribers got the email.
Today, I know a whole lot more about Spam Filtration Triggers and have discovered an entire industry of Email Delivery Efficiency Experts.
If I had waited a week, I could have skipped the whole blog entry and simply linked to this article which explains the reason why and When Halloween Got So Tawdry. (Turns out the answer to that question, like many things, is "The '70's.")
But this time last week, the article hadn't been written yet. So to get the point across, I collected a few news items that spoke to and about women and their relationship to Halloween.
What triggers massive Spam walls? Here are some clues which you'll have to de-code, like a game of hangman-meets-Wheel-Of-Spamdom:
Lots of articles had headlines with the word S L _ T T Y (rhymes with Putty) in them, as in "________ Nurse Costume."
I included one article from a perfectly nice site that happens to be called
_ I T C H.com (itch but put a B in front of it).
Plus it turns out that your Spam Filter doesn't think those adorable little girls cursing like sailors in the name of Feminism are so cute after all! And it doesn't help that that website has a name that begins with F, ends with H8, and has a CK in the middle. Okay they dropped a vowel but gss wht? The all-knowing Spam God ddn't nd vwls 2 gt th pt crss.
And, the piéce de spamsistence is that one of the headlines had the actual word _ _ _ in it. Begins with S. The next two letters are EXactly what you think they are.
So Spam is very much like the thing it's guarding against -- (hint: like corn-but-begins-with-the-letter-P) -- it can't exactly define it but it knows it when it sees it.
Moving on.
Big news: it's November!
I had 31 days to cover it, and I totally missed Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Apologies. I tardily have included an interesting story below.
Usually, The Sunday Paper does not miss an entire news event or activist movement. Usually, 75%+ of The Sunday Paper is not hung up in cyberspace or delivered to Spam folders. Usually, it just brings news about women in business to you. It covers business, politics, digital, tech, media, music, tv, film, fashion, sports, and culture, roughly in that order, ever week, with a kicker that should get a chuckle out of even the most hardboiled, spam-proofed, subscribers.
Don't forget to send any interesting stuff you think we may have missed, tell us what you think, and tell people to sign up at our website, LZSundayPaper.com.
Many of the articles and other musings that we don't have room to include in the weekend edition are tweeted out all during the week @LZSundayPaper.
Looking forward to a Spam-free November, except if you happen to serve it on Thanksgiving in just a couple of weeks.
LZ
JUST FOR KICKS:
Chelsea Handler Leaves Instagram After It Nixes Her Topless Pic via The Los Angeles Times
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
The Problem With That Catcalling Video That Everyone Has Seen via Slate
10 Hours Of Walking In NYC As A Man via FunnyOrDie
NEWS & INSIGHTS:
The Washington Post Will Soon Have Only Men On Its Masthead via Jezebel
Hillary Rodham Clinton Courts Women Voters For This Election -- And Possibly 2016 via The Washington Post
Poll: Most Girls Think Politics Is A Man's World via Time Magazine
Handling Of Sexual Harassment Case Poses Larger Questions At Yale via The New York Times
The Very Pink, Very Controversial Business of Breast Cancer Awareness via Racked.com
U.S. Is 65th In World On Gender Pay Gap via Money.CNN.com
The New Guard: The 50 Most Connected Women In America via Marie Claire
How To Succeed As A Woman Entrepreneur: Advice From Boston's Women Leaders via BetaBoston
Why Is Kim Kardashian At A Tech Conference?! via TechCrunch
Google Must Pay Canadian Woman $2,250 For Showing Her Cleavage In Street View via GigaOm
Emma Sulkowicz Inspired Students Across The Country To Carry Their Mattresses. Now What? via Slate
Inside Rent The Runway's Secret Dry-Cleaning Empire via Fast Company
The 'Gone Girl' Problem via Overland.org
Monica Lewinsky Hires PR Muscle via BuzzFeed
Is That Malala or Mindy Kaling? Take Our Quiz via The Guardian
Aretha Franklin Is An Old Lady And She Sounds Like It. Good For Her. via Gawker
I'm Rich. You're Hot: The Cold Mathematics Of Sugar Daddy Dating via ModernLuxury.com via San Francisco Magazine
Kris Jenner: Smooth Operator via TMZ
A Life-Changing Facial via TheTig.com
AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT:
The Queen Sends Her First Tweet! via USA Today
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