this article is too much

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Kit Kats in Japan. Photographs by SPENCER LOWELL. Courtesy of NY TIMES

Kit Kats in Japan. Photographs by SPENCER LOWELL. Courtesy of NY Times.

“big in japan” by tejal rao — literally had to read several passages out loud to ross. was it the candy subject matter? the focus on special flavors? the melancholy ending? i can only say, perhaps, yes.

A Kit Kat is composed of three layers of wafer and two layers of flavored cream filling, enrobed in chocolate to look like a long, skinny ingot. It connects to identical skinny ingots, and you can snap these apart from one another intact, using very little pressure, making practically no crumbs.

POETRY

 


outside the presidio county appraisal office

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doth it be a wigwas afraid to get closer — tho i think it’s (just?) a wig


that’s the impact of an island

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island Mpact beverage coyour island l'attitude

Handcrafted with a simple mission.
capture the mystic impact of the islands.

11% ALCOHOL: ✔️
LOGO REMINISCENT OF A RIFLE’S BLOODSPLATTERED CROSSHAIRS: ✔️
L’________: ✔️
CAPTURE IMPACT OF AN ISLAND?: oh i think we got it


keep it weird, alpine

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alpine self serve dog wash -- come and try it!

easy to bathe


we know what to do.

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tab [Photograph: Robyn Lee]

photo by robyn lee, courtesy of seriouseats.com

 

from “Where Has All the Tab Gone? A Shortage Panics Fans“:

For lovers of Tab it is the latest attempt to take away their beloved soda, a steady threat since Coca-Cola introduced Diet Coke in 1982.

“We’ve been through this before,” said Calvin Boyd, 51, a Tab drinker for four decades who works in the cargo department at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. “We know what to do.”


john’s review of oceans 8

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oceans 8 was BAD

perfect encapsulation


reborn

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maya lin

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Maya Lin Storm King Wavefield, 2007–08 Earth and grass 240,000 square feet (11-acre site) Gift of the Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Janet Inskeep Benton, the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation, the Brown Foundation Inc. of Houston, Texas, Amb. and Mrs. W. L. Lyons Brown, Jr., Callahan and Nannini Quarry Products, Charina Endowment Fund, the Donohue Family Foundation, Edmund G. Glass, the Hazen Polsky Fund, Paul and Barbara Jenkel, the Kautz Family Foundation, the Lipman Family Foundation, Martin Z. Margulies, the Margaret T. Morris Foundation, Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation, Inc., Peckham Family Foundation, Jeannette and David Redden, Gabrielle H. Reem, M.D. and Herbert J. Kayden, M.D., the Richard Salomon Family Foundation, Inc., Sara Lee and Alex H. Schupf, Anne and Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Smith Purchase Fund © Maya Lin Studio, courtesy Pace Gallery

Maya Lin
Storm King Wavefield, 2007–08
Earth and grass
240,000 square feet (11-acre site)
© Maya Lin Studio, courtesy Pace Gallery