Welcome to The #Content Report, a newsletter by Vince Mancini. I’ve been writing about movies, culture, and food since the aughts. Now I’m delivering it straight to you, with none of the autoplay videos, takeover ads, or chumboxes of the ad-ruined internet. Support my work and help me bring back the cool internet by subscribing, sharing, commenting, and keeping it real. - For the last few years I haven’t watched SNL every week like I used to (not really a value judgement, just a fact), but the morning after the “Beavis” sketch with Ryan Gosling aired on April 13th, it seemed like it was everywhere.

On May 1, police were called for an active shooter at Mount Horeb Middle in rural Wisconsin. Officers spotted a teen outside of the school with a long black rifle and killed him when he didn’t comply with commands. Four days later, police provided an update that the rifle was a $100 pellet gun available at Walmart and Amazon. Robert Chappell, the executive editor of Madison 365 News, has two kids at Mount Horeb Middle and High schools.

Who gets to save the world? In  1983, U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan made a remarkable statement about a fellow senator, Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson, who had just died.  "Henry Jackson was proof of the old belief in the Judaic tradition that at any moment in history, goodness in the world is preserved by the deeds of 36 just men who do not know that this is the role the Lord has given them.

I recently finished an 8 week therapy workshop on self-compassion (feel free to applaud), and I learned a term on the very last day that really stuck with me. Over-Identification. The words popped up in the results of a self-compassion quiz I had to to do for homework. I scored super high in the over-identification category, and my inner straight-A student was hoping this indicated that I aced my class and now had honor roll worthy self esteem.

It was August 8, 2023, when wildfires erupted in the Hawaiin community of Lahaina. More than 100 people have died according to government officials. Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said a few days after the fires broke out that there was "very little left" of Lahaina, where more than 2,700 structures have been destroyed in what is now the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Green said he expects the death toll to keep climbing.