last week I started a substack chronicling my journey as a soon-to-be founder. this week’s newsletter is all about rejection (freelancers are v familiar w the feeling!!!) izzie.substack.com/p/training-t...
I’m on the radiooooooooo to chat the history of the phone with @kqedforum.bsky.social 🥹 tune in now! www.kqed.org/forum
🎙️ON AIR:
We're talking to @izzieramirez.bsky.social, @heatherkelly.bsky.social and @emilydreyfuss.bsky.social about the many iterations of the telephone, which turns 150 years old this month.
❓What’s a feature of a previous iteration of phone tech you miss/love?
📻 Listen:
I want to get to know the most absurd, high-octane stories of overindulgence — and how #serviceworkers feel about it. What do you do with the leftovers? What's something you wish that could be better? Email me: izziermrz@gmail.com. Again, I'll grant anonymity :) #journorequest
I'm keen on talking to back-of-house workers in Los Angeles, the Hamptons, and Miami. AND if you're wondering, I'm not new to this. I'm true to this. Here's a pic from a party in where there were 3 handles of tequila, a quarter of a parm wheel, and limitless oysters per table.
🫵🏽Are you a #chef, #waiter, #caterer, #eventplanner? Have you ever had to serve an insanely wealthy private party? I want to talk to you!🫵🏽 For Serviette Magazine, I'm writing about the folks who make decadent nights possible. Happy to grant anonymity! Hit me up: izziermrz@gmail.com #restaurants
tysm!!!
letter of rec: quit your job, go freelance, and throw a party
4pm lunch no one tell me shit
thank you!!!
I'll be freelance writing, editing, designing, and maybe even app developing! I'm available for work on stories about pop culture, consumerism, food, AI, health, sports, anime, architecture, design, etc etc. You can reach me at izziermrz@gmail.com! More soon xoxo
THIS JUST IN: I'm the first ever Vox employee to hit the aegyo during an exit interview. Today is my last day as deputy editor of Future Perfect! I've had a blast working with this truly iconic team, but it's time for me to do my own thing!
y'all think i can use a burst water pipe as an excuse not to cook and to get ceviche instead yes or yes
Read Vox's chief Bad Bunny correspondent @izzieramirez.bsky.social on the references to Puerto Rican culture, history, and politics you might have missed during Benito's set last night. www.vox.com/culture/4784...
it's me!!! explaining benito bowl!!!
if you want to learn more about the political context behind benito bowl, check out this piece i wrote from 2022 (also a gift link!!!) www.vox.com/future-perfe...
to a casual listener, it may seem that Bad Bunny only sings about bagging baddies. that’s partially true. but for any Puerto Rican, from those on the archipelago to those in the diaspora, there are deeper layers. i wanted y’all to feel like you, too, are in on the secret.
there were SO many other iconic moments that didn't make the piece:
🎧 old school reggaeton (daddy yankee and don omar!)
🛞 gomeras aka tire guys. fun fact: my abuelo was one before in canovanas becoming a pro jockey
🪑 the little boy sleeping on the chair — a universal party experience!!!
Here's a gift link to the @vox.com piece I wrote explaining eight of the biggest, cultural, "if you know, you know" moments of Bad Bunny's halftime show www.vox.com/culture/4784...
Team resources is why worker-owned media collectives are so important. It's not gonna fix everything, especially the problem of readers only having so much cash, but everyone can't go it alone.
democracy dies when you are actively trying to kill it!!
my brand at work is so strong that i got a “congrats to izzie” at the 9:30 am stand up
SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
The full user guide here:
everything always works out in my favor!!! ik — a highly delusional thing to believe, but it's true!
Thrumming with untold power, as a bit
i see, so doomscrolling anxiety lives here now
i'm the world's luckiest girl (saw kokuho in tokyo a month ago and then again tonight in imax in nyc)
clear eyes, miso soup in a to go coffee cup, can’t lose
