“I Would Like to Send You a Memory”

ok yes, there’s some really great stuff here–I thought it would be glurgy or hipster but it is really neither of those things:

The more I looked, the more I found. And I discovered that, secretly, the YouTube comment box had become the strangest and most wonderful place on the internet. A place that was fascinating, endlessly moving, and heartbreakingly human.

“The hustle was sexy and graceful,” and other moments of joy, penitence, grief, war, love, and growing up.