This is normally the part of the email where I dazzle you with a new product release or tell you it's National Endangered Species Day and offer up some clever quips about tigers. I was gonna do all that but this week has me pretty mentally tapped out, so instead I'll just share a little of why.

Shout out to Christina and Isabella from the Boredwalk customer service team, who tackle phone calls, text messages, and emails from fans and haters alike!

 

I don't need an occasion to appreciate them because I appreciate their calm professional demeanor every day. They do their best to make the Boredwalk shopping experience great and manage to keep a cool head even when people are being terrible — truly a superpower.

Lastly, today is World Intellectual Property Day, a topic I am passionate about since all of us here at Boredwalk depend on intellectual property to pay our bills. The US loses hundreds of billions of dollars a year to intellectual property theft, a problem our incompetent government seems determined to do absolutely nothing about.

 

I can only imagine the eye-watering amount of money I personally lose each year to people stealing art from our website, but hey, it's Wednesday and this email is supposed to help us get over the hump, not under a pile of pretzel crumb covered blankets and crushing despair. That's for tomorrow! Let's ignore problems for today and feast on carbs and set our eyeliner on fire — beauty is a social construct!