hodge podge

• continued my USPS stamps tear and ordered these beautiful ruth asawa stamps. at this rate, i’ll have stamps until i die.
• yes to maira kalman (“My two favorite times of the day are getting into bed at night and getting out of bed in the morning”)
• i’m frustrated with this $600 unemployment bonus debate — shouldn’t the fact that people are making more on unemployment be ringing some alarm bells? i mean THAT’S what’s broken, not these extra payments — the fact that people aren’t really making living wages when working reg jobs, amirite?

criminal

(via anti-racism daily)

this song

at last, a great day

an incredible supreme court ruling, at LAST, plus a daily podcast with adam liptak discussing the case.

this is scorching

real truths. reparations now, in my opinion.

Latifa Echakhch

and on the drive home we own the road

courtesy of dan, from matthew klam’s “let’s get small”:

Eleventh grade: We have busboy jobs at Le Château, a big, corny restaurant run by a mean French family, in a stone mansion overlooking the Hudson Valley. The maître d’ is not so sure about us; neither are the waiters, the captains, the wine guys, or Joseph, who hired us, or his lieutenant, Koos. Individually, we do a capable job of clearing, hauling trays and dish tubs, but as a team we’re incompetent and despised. The grandmother catches us eating food off people’s plates, we’re blamed for breaking the ice machine, and the staff generates a growing list of insulting nicknames for us. But there’s a wonderful smell of baguettes in paper bags, and on the drive home we own the road, dissecting the strangeness of a menacing world.

Nadine Ijewere