Increasingly averse to "worn" forms of writing as declaration of identity (tshirts, bumper stickers, etc) but I did just have the thought on the way to the garden store with my biggest tote to buy a medium-sized bag of soil that it would be funny if it said THIS TOTE BAG IS MY PICKUP TRUCK.
@gourmetlives.bsky.social is on bsky now 👹
Two private geographies I regret not committing to paper before they faded: every roommate assignment from my floor in my high school dorm; the precise layout of every single store at Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City circa 2003-2006 when my little sister and I had it memorized.
All that aside, today's issue is killer! You should check it out: gourmetmagazine.net/paris-palace...
Kinda goofy news today, which is that I had to choose between my job of the past 6 years as a software engineer at the Times and my new co-op magazine newsletter Gourmet. I chose the latter!!
ATE A BIG PIECE OF CAKE. MAYBE TOO BIG. IM BREATHIN HEAVY
Once again at least I have my old friend Four Advil at my side
Just got a promotional email from a shoe company I last got a promotional email from two days shy of 11 years ago. The passage of time, the permanence of mailing lists!
I ate too much polenta a few years ago and took a long break but wow!! polenta!! time to eat too much again.
I gotta tell you that with a lowly single Z in my last name, I am jealous of Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi for having two each. The additional Z in my first name is my only consolation.
"I Won't Share You" by The Smiths playing at the ice cream place was nice but I did swap tastes of our cones with several but not all of my friends.
andy i think it's maybe one of the only real supplements along with like, fish oil. i take it at night and actually sleep through the night finally!
Should I put in my dating app profile that I'm not only a 6-year Rancho Gordo Bean Club member, but that when a new box arrives I pretty regularly only have 1-2 pounds of beans left from the previous shipment?
The B48 automated announcement voice no longer pronounces Meserole as "meserolly" but it does still pronounce Wythe as "with."
Do you ever watch a French film (today, François Ozon's 1995 La Petite Mort) and wish you had that particular old-fashioned French handwriting?
I was already feeling lucky to spot an older person in flawless makeup and a belt and suspenders combo getting off the bus as I got on, but then there was also someone in a new-looking (??) Carol Burnett Show tshirt!
truly, genuinely, would that we were all more like you!!
Channeling my inchoate longing for the return of blogging into posting Too Many Updates to my Ravelry project for the hot little cotton-silk polo I'm knitting (sadly you gotta have an account to read it) www.ravelry.com/projects/nzl...
On Sunday @zanopticon.bsky.social recognized me on the street by my ass in my swim trunks!
Lotta good outfits and hot guys and cute babies at my polling place this morning, the sheen of sweat making everyone look glamorous.
List of items I've seen people carrying on the subway and initially mistaken for a hockey stick because I'm usually carrying a hockey stick: tennis rackets, baseball bats, and, this morning, two of those very long levels used on construction sites.
I praise this day, which has brought me one of those increasingly infrequent little blessings: spotting a real life head-to-toe Thom Browne guy on the subway on his way to work.
"a dog"
came to me in a flash this morning that if I got a vanity plate (n.b. at no point in my life have I been able to drive) it would be DOT PDF
last night during my hockey game, a couple of teammates had the knicks-pacers game playing on their phones on the bench, a goofy symphony of sneaker squeaking and ball bouncing and skate scraping and puck slapping.
Every other guy walking around today in a nice little knit shirt and shorts shorter than mine is a try-hard and every other guy walking around today in a nice little knit shirt and shorts longer than mine is a huge nerd, hope this helps
Wasn't paying attention and very carefully shook three orange foam earplugs out of the little tub to put in before going to bed, as if I had that many ears.
my favorite May Day tradition :)
can u get that one video where we both tried an early VR headset
It must be so cool to be a toddler on the subway in New York City, occasionally getting bodily picked up in your stroller by a beefy hot stranger (me) who lugs you up or down the stairs before disappearing forever.