bits

• the time of trying the see’s st. patrick’s day potato has at last arrived. also the reviews are AMAZING (“Real Potato Bliss”)
• ross and i ate at cattleman’s steakhouse in fabens last weekend — what a trip. it was PACKED at 4:45pm, had no salad bar, in fact no salad on the menu at all — except for “pineapple slaw” — so baked potato it was. followed it up with the queen of sheba dessert (“heavy whipped cream with chocolate wafers,” an icebox cake in a cup, no regrets).
• saw an article that referred to trump’s policies as rapacious, which really sums it up
• never seen this athletic training strategy so clearly illustrated
• the exact problem, as described by rayne fisher-quann in an essay about the free press and kat rosenfeld: “It’s an interesting choice, although maybe not an intelligent one, to search for understanding not through outward inquiry or research but solely within your private repository of what you already believe.”
• saw marty supreme and it wasn’t for me, though it did get me thinking about class, race, religion, and this bit in the atlantic especially struck me: “…the director [josh safdie] portrays the nightmarish baggage that comes with fighting to achieve victory outside the mainstream.”
• also read this ages ago on cup of jo but it really is awesome: “Sometimes I think about the vicar’s description of my grandmother at her funeral, and I wish it for all of us: ‘She wasn’t perfect, but she was WONDERFUL.”