even this

”wildlife” by ellen bass

the secret agent

one of the best presents of all time

NBA LEAGUE PASS (yelling it) (thank you Ali baba)

extremely overdue appreciation for hamilton (10 years behind)

today i was reading about jonathan groff and forgot he was in hamilton so had to revisit a couple of his songs and then i couldn’t stop listening to the soundtrack because it is so genius, like just straight up plato-pre-cave definition of genius. lin-manuel miranda deserved every accolade, the pulitzer was so deserved, all the performers are incredible, the story is so complex and tragic. i was picturing being in the cast and performing at the first rehearsal and just how thrilling it must have been. you do hamilton and that’s enough for your whole life, you did it (it doesn’t work like that, but it should). watch this session of the cast performing at the white house and cry and think about how we had a black president that could present this and that we’ve come so far but not even far enough and seem to be sliding backwards?

good looks

This spread from The NY Times is so good

seen on my walk to work

people have their things 🥲

whatchamacallit

my uncle sent me this ad from our high school newspaper — audrey, co and i were on the lancer staff and had to go model the dresses. i feel like our whole vibe is MORTIFIED. what a name for a store, too? different times (1991 or 92).

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.”

extremely good look

paul klee