Pinkos! I’m off to the beach tonight, this beach specifically. Come visit! Bring beer! Actually bring Rosé! After weeks of freaking out about healthcare, my next seven days are going to include: 

• Sitting on a porch drinking the Rosé that you’re bringing me and reading Fordlandia, which I’m really, REALLY excited about. 
• Sitting on the beach drinking the Rosé  that you’re bringing me and reading some adult choose your own adventure books. 
• Possibly eating a sundae big enough that I’ll have my name inscribed on the KingKone wall of fame. 
• Steadfastly avoiding The Washington Post’s ridiculous anti-healthcare reform editorials. 
• Covering the lining of my entire body with Old Bay seasoning, washed down with the Rosé that you’re bringing me. 

In the meantime: Blogging may be down to an end-of-summer crawl, but keep checking back. We have a couple of features in the pipeline and there may be some outrageous photoshop action while I’m away. (Chace Crawford and Robert Pattinson may or may not be involved.) Stirling will mind the ship. But please keep coming! We’ve had such a wonderful few weeks with everyone, we don’t want to lose you. Also? Read my man’s new post where he takes the cafe at Alice Tully Hall to task for their draconian policies about laptop plugs. 

For now we’re going to leave our  super-post, Five Things You Can Do About Healthcare, In Ascending Order of Difficulty and Commitment, as the site lead, in case people stumble on the site. It’s as important next week as it was this week – I hope you did one or more of the five things! That’s all for now. In honor of the week to come, here’s our favorite video ever:

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Ben Wyskida is a writer, activist, conscientious hedonist and political communications strategist living in Brooklyn. - Visit Ben's site.