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This time around, we open with a cold glass of contrast. On one hand, water in abundance, bottled by
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June 21 · Issue #6 · View online
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This time around, we open with a cold glass of contrast. On one hand, water in abundance, bottled by an industry that’s set to grow larger than soda. On the other, water in short supply, pushed hundreds of miles across the desert at the cost of a carbon footprint like you wouldn’t believe. These stories (and a couple more) take us to West Virginia, Arizona, Michigan, and, not ever to be left out, Texas. They whip from theme to theme, stomping on things that don’t seem to die, the cockroaches of the human condition: consumerism, hubris, cancer, and debauchery. Thankfully though, storytelling isn’t dying out anytime soon, either. So get to reading, and let this week’s stories quench your thirst for great writing. -Lucas
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Clear Victory: A Deep Dive Into The World’s Most Prestigious Water-Tasting Competition
“Outside, a windless snowstorm was underway, with forecasts calling for eight to 10 inches. Von Wiesenberger pointed a signet-ring-clad hand toward the window and the sheets of dense white falling just outside.
‘You know what we call that in the industry?’ he asked with a grin. 'Future inventory.'” - John Lingan | BuzzFeed
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End of the Miracle Machines
“At sunrise, a reddish-brown snake slithers across the sky as the burned coal sends out plumes of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury, lead and other metals. That malignant plume — containing 16 million tons of carbon dioxide every year — contributes to causing the very overheated weather, drought and dwindling flows of water the plant’s power is intended to relieve.” - Abrahm Lustgarten | Matter
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Believe in Feather Bowling
“They say about America that if you love a patch of it hard enough, you begin to remake it in your own image. In the end, it’s the godforsaken patches we protect the hardest. However far down that dirt goes into Detroit’s east side, something farther beneath the surface pulls a wooden ball one way, and something else near where the portraits hang under the pressed tin ceiling pulls a shot another way.” - Chris Koentges | ESPN The Magazine
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We Went to a Rally with the Biggest Biker Gangs in Texas
“Engines cough up smoke and roar. Mariachi, country, rap, and Kelly Clarkson jams melt together in the Texas heat. We almost run over a lobster-colored drunk passed out on the grass, cowboy hat smothering over his face. A gold bike with a "just married” cardboard sign swerves to a stop at the Port-a-Potties. ‘This is freedom,’ says Greg, his eyes finding mine in the rearview mirror. 'Ya got da wind, air, ya got it all.’“ - Meredith Hoffman | Vice
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What Is Code?
“If coders don’t run the world, they run the things that run the world.” - Paul Ford | Bloomberg Business
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