I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

Enjoy! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Update: currently watching my partner chuckle his way through the bread piece. It's very enjoyable

Sidling up to people to whisper, conspiratorially, "have you read the bread piece?"

French mustard (the smooth Dijon kind), soy sauce, and aged balsamic (the syrupy type)

A picture of the book Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton

Finally finished Butter today - a weird book, but certainly fascinating. And I do love the place it gets to about the weird legacy in recipes

An intensely pink fizzy drink next to a bottle of alcohol-free Tequila-ish

Made myself a virgin paloma. Gotta say: doesn't taste half bad!

Another day, another piece that confuses supporting women getting to make their own bad choices for themselves with a duty to support whatever a woman does because she chose it

I love the train sometimes. Bros chatting behind me. One of them tells the other that when he's on the toilet without his phone he'll sometimes fold elaborate origami swans from toilet paper. May well be a joke, but wholesome nevertheless!

A colorful two-story home for animals (including the cute piglet from Moana) built from Lego, photographed from a dramatic low angle that makes it look like brutalist architecture via Lisa Frank

Youngest godkid had fun with Lego today and then I had fun teaching her about dramatic camera angles and choosing the right perspective.

Ok, maybe I do spend to much time on the internet: just tried BIRB as a word in Spelling Bee...

Oppassen is ook jezelf op vermoeide toon horen zeggen "prima, maar kan oega boega de aap nu wel even gewoon gaan tandenpoetsen?"

Nu heb ik het stuk gelezen en weet ik nog steeds niet of de beste man nu Robin or Robert heet... Wel fijn dat de eindredactie zo toch het mysterie een beetje levend houdt ;-)

And it's not even the best song in the movie! I like that it's a proper movie musical, in the tradition of classic Disney

A calico cat, sleeping - she appears to have only one ear but that's because the other one is folded under her head

A moment of Sunday peace

A calico cat, asleep on a lap, photographed by owner of said lap (me)

So many things I need to do today. But it's already noon and so far this is the status

Browsing around for something to watch, and HBO max has a "feelgood emergency kit" collection including The Banshees of Inisherin, Nightbitch and The Favourite. I have questions!

A slice of apple pie and a steaming mug of tea (with honey, though that's not visible)

My work gives you an additional day off in the week or so around your birthday. I'm taking mine today, and I'm annoyed because I'm spending it with a cold. But at least there's leftover apple pie!

mother!

Without a doubt

The complete filmography of Agnès Varda - the Criterion box set - on a shelf

Got myself a fancy early birthday present, and now her eyes follow me around the room

Altijd een ervaring, nuchter in een carnavalstrein

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IFFR tip! En hij lijkt later dit jaar ook een reguliere release te krijgen 🤞

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Same for movies. One of my godkids asked for "The Princess and the Pan" when she was about four. Took us a while to figure out she meant Tangled, but the name stuck!

Ok, ok, should shout out the positive, but "four-time Oscar nominee F1"? Is that really the world we live in?

(Confession: bailed after the first hour, so maybe it gets really great after that, who knows!)

I have that box! It's pretty great - I wouldn't necessarily say they're all good films, but none of them were boring! I recently promised I'd lend it to a friend's 11yo kid, who's really into Godzilla, mainly for The X From Outer Space

Why on Earth Have I Seen the Same Broadway Show 13 Times? An Investigation.

Loved this piece, so much. There's something special about finding a piece of culture that just clicks with you www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...

I've had no luck for those either, alas!

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One side of a crochet phone pouch/bag, showing two colorful flower motifs surrounded by dark green yarn.

The other side of the crochet phone pouch/bag, showing two slightly more muted flower motifs surrounded by dark green yarn.

I've been frantically crocheting lately, in a desperate attempt not to despair over current events. Not sure it's working, but at least now I have a cute new phone bag?

Three crochet flowers, as granny squares, in various bright colors

Should go grocery shopping but it's cold and snowy so I'm procrastinating by making crochet flowers