Remap Recommends, Volume X

Remember when you’d walk into a local music, book, or video store and there’d be an adorable section where the employees would recommend what they were interested in that month? 

Welcome to our little version of it, called Remap Recommends. 

It's a chance for the staff at Remap to let you know what they've been playing, reading, listening to, or watching.

Patrick Recommends: Panic World

I'm taking a chance here. Ages ago, I recommended a podcast attached to one of my favorite newsletters, Garbage Day, only for the podcast to immediately announce it was winding down. Panic World is another podcast attached to one of my favorite newsletters, Garbage Day, but it's a new podcast, so fingers crossed.

Garbage Day is a newsletter about the internet, specifically untangling the who/what/where/when/why of the discourse of the moment. It features, by my count, vital reporting and commentary and is now essential reading when it hits my inbox. Panic World is an extension of Garbage Day's mission, but drills down into specific topics that are probably best understood by listing the episode titles:

• My friend's dad is a Holocaust denier now
• Here's who killed the #MeToo movement
• Who turned Gen Z fascist?
• Can you order a hitman online?

Every episode is funny, interesting, and insightful. I spent a lot of time online, but thankfully, not enough to understand most of it. Garbage Day helps fill the gaps. Most of the conversations are about the ways society is poisoned and dying, but if we're entering a collapse, at least you wanna understand why it's happening, right?

Rob Recommends: Permanent Style Magazine

I was trying on some boots at a shoe store in the Village when a man burst in asking, “Hey you have the Permanent Style print thing? Has that arrived yet?” My salesman indicated a stack of large-format magazines on the counter and the visitor started gushing. “Oh wow, you must have the hook up? Do you know him?”

“Well, yes, but just to email with occasionally. Professional acquaintance level only, I’m afraid. But obviously, huge fan,” the salesman said.

“Yeah he’s incredible. I’ve been reading since the start of the blog, basically. Thanks!” He paid for the magazine, and raced back out into the street.

I ended up seeing that magazine at every store I visited, and before I left I made a point to grab a copy. And let me tell you, it’s one of the most gorgeous and aspirational magazines I’ve ever encountered. Like a Condé publication at their peak, but less tacky. It’s the kind of thing that, maybe in my wildest dreams, Remap could put out one day.