should i just go for it?

but you’re getting that, too

(image courtesy of WEHOville)

jonathan gold’s juicy review of dan tana’s:

If you have been going to Dan Tana’s since the ’70s, you have your own protocol. If you haven’t, you get a Caesar salad, tossed to order across the room, that is cold, juicy and slicked with a powerful emulsion of garlic and cheese; or you get a Tita Cahn salad, named for Sammy Cahn’s widow, which is an improbably delicious chop of asparagus, lettuce and broccoli. Whether you’re from St. Louis or not, you’re getting the fried ravioli with marinara sauce instead of the dry calamari. The garlic toast is just the table bread with cheese broiled onto it, but you’re getting that too.

also how great a name is “tita cahn”?

Just being alive and kind is already a successful day

Just being alive and kind is already a successful day

A post shared by Kris Chau (@chaufacetime) on Jul 27, 2018 at 10:29am PDT

arrowheads my dad found when he was a boy in west texas

if this sounds like the story of life

from raymond carver’s “Locking Yourself Out, Then Trying to Get Back In”

things i am thinking about

from june jordan’s “these poems”

• the snippet above from june jordan’s “these poems” (learned about it from rachel khong’s moon list)
• a “recommendations” page like ann friedman’s
• my sister telling me that i had terrible time management skills
• these beautiful gifs from the 1963 march on washington (via laura olin’s newsletter)
• producing concerts is the #1 PITS
• eating cake is the #1 NON-PITS

it set my mind on fire

from the creative independent’s interview with writer nina renata aron:

In the mid-‘90s, I was fortunate enough to experience riot grrl’s intersection of feminism, punk rock, and bouffant hairdos—that moment was a lot about a kind of dirty, glamorous girl-gang mentality. My interest in writing as I was becoming an adult was manifesto-driven. Even if it wasn’t overtly political that really drove me.

When I got to college and I took a Soviet history class, it set my mind on fire. I felt like the Russian Revolution was the punkest thing I’d ever heard of. We were learning about samizdat, which I understood to be zines, basically, and I became obsessed with Russian history. I spent 10 years of my life studying it.

good old person thing

hearing “gimme one reason” on the radio

barbeque harder

great shortie with actor daveed diggs about gentrification:

how to lose and find your phone

step 1: go to party at stepcousin’s house
step 2: somehow, accidentally, unwittingly throw phone in trash
step 3: immediately notice it’s missing, but assume you put it down “someplace”
step 4: casually look for it all night
step 5: go to bed and hope for best
step 6: employ find your iphone app and your stepcousin and pray for a miracle
step 7: get a miracle