The First (and Last) Haterade Reader Survey

Get weird with it, folks.

I returned from vacation this week with a grand unified theory of loose-meat sandwiches.

I will foist it upon you in due time [VOICEOVER: Later this week], but today—today is a special day. Today is the day of THE FIRST ANNUAL HATERADE READER SURVEY DATA COLLECTION JAMBOREE. It’s like Christmas—except instead of presents, you give me your opinions, and you don’t have to see my face when I open them.

The survey is administered through Google Forms, has six questions, and none of them are required. Responses are completely anonymous. Which means: you can say all kinds of mean things to me and I’ll just have to suck it up like a dime-store DustBuster.

As many of you probably intuited from the last newsletter, I’ve been thinking more lately about how I can make the things I love sustainable. This is one way for you to help.

Whether you click that appealing purple button or not, a sincere thanks to all of you who have subscribed over the past year and given me an outlet for the weirdness in my brain. It’s gratifying/alarming to meet so many fellow travelers. We are not alone, even if we probably should be.

Talk soon. And if you’d rather not fill out a form (though I hope you will), you can get in touch with me any time: lizcook.kc@gmail.com

P.S. Keep Thursday, November 4 open on your calendars. No, I’m not telling you why.

P.P.S. You can still vote for Haterade in The Pitch’s Reader’s Choice awards for Best Local Blog/Substack if you’d like! If I win, I promise to make small, edible versions of the award and force-feed them to my competitors. This act of violence, like the awards themselves, will be sponsored by Truly.