sorry you're mad you didn't think of it first 😘👌🏻

carbonated chicken stock for matzo balls because i have free will.

Is this press conference the equivalent of waiting for Justine to get off that plane?

rancho gordo super lucky 2026 black eyed peas, because we can use all the help we can get

a yellow pot with half wilted greens and a big bowl of uncooked greens waiting for their turn to be added

vanquishing my enemies and other demons

homemade raw bar with shrimp cocktail, oysters, and mignonette

a saucily dressed wedge salad

an impeccably seared tomahawk steak

a plate with parm crusted potato pave, medium rare steak, creamed shishitos and garlic butter mushrooms. an old fashioned is in the corner.

and other things

a finely diced shallot on a cutting board alongside a knife and the detrius of the shallot

cutting half a shallot into a pretty decent brunoise until this mignonette is made

a pretty good looking cheesecake on a much used sheet pan hanging half way out the oven, mid-bake

the small constellation of air bubbles is enraging me

u know the address

a messy counter with four boxes of opened Philly cream cheese, a mixing bowl with the cheese dumped in, and a half eaten ginger cake which is delicious but unrelated

making a full sized cheesecake for two to tell 2025 to piss off

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

a snowy airplane window

a palm tree and wicker fence frame a white sand beach at the carribean ocean

started / going

what makes u think i have not baked with u in mind

a sheet tray of impeccably baked gingerbread.

getting seasonal as fuck 🎄🔔🌟 (gingerbread recipe by the indomitable stella parks!)

my audience of one!

MTA announcements about paying my fare from cardi b seems off brand.

caught them at the beginning of October in NYC, they were a blast.

honored and humbled to accept this validation

A series of email subject lines and their corresponding inbox previews. The subject lines are banana pants for a political party supposedly the serious one.

as if I couldn't hate dem fundraising emails enough, the past few weeks of sender/subject lines have been unhinged. please be normal!

My most dad-coded opinion is that there is a gaping hole where Tom Petty was in the musical landscape.

the last sentence in the first paragraph lacks a punctuation mark. there's inappropriate semi-colon use, hyphens instead of em dashes (by the end she got one right) fragmented sentences, sentences starting with conjunctions...

this would be embarrassing work for a 9th grader.

I truly don't understand the evil calculation that you can throw trans people to the fascist mob & somehow prosper. You will never succeed in your cynical, too clever by half aims, you have already surrendered something essential. Imagine if the counteroffer to the Right was: nothing. Not one inch!

walking backwards into hell

bari weiss may be a cancer on the ass of journalism, but without this attempted smear campaign i might never have learned about mamdani's based take on sex work

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

“you come up with a mean nickname to call this guy on TV?”
“sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked”

A tenant lawyer I went to high school with, who has never lived in NYC, told me that I’m a “Kapo” and that my Holocaust survivor grandfather was rolling in his grave, after I said more people voted for Mamdani because of affordability concerns than because they want to globalize the intifada.

my only post-election take is maybe the most important:

📢 @bradlander.bsky.social PRIMARY CHUCK SCHUMER 📢

Mamdani and Lander Will Cross-Endorse Each Other in N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race

BREAKING: Mamdani and Lander will cross-endorse.
The partnership, which is being announced one day before early voting begins, would effectively turn Mamdani and Lander into something of a joint entry. They hope that one of them will eventually accumulate many of the other’s votes as a result.