started my Chinese cinema class so am watching ~2 films a week
Laborer's love [1922], New women [1935], battle of triangle Hill [1956], buddy's palm [1956], dragon Inn [1967], anora [2024]
Julie Salamon - Hospital: man, woman, birth, death, infinity, plus red tape, bad behavior money, god, and diversity on steroids
no articles this month!! too busy with finding an la apartment, moving, cleaning, parents coming home, baking, going to palm springs for a weekend, going to sd for a weekend, friend get-togethers... plus i finished a book :)
meet joe black [1998], wallace and gromit: vengeance most fowl [2025], rental family, idiocracy [2006]
peter h gleick - bottled & sold: the story behind out obsession with the bottled water
28 days later [2002], 10 things i hate about you [1999]
Michael Ruhlman - The Reach of a Chef: Professional Cooks in the Age of Celebrity
focused on reading the above book this month so didn't read many articles.
the atlantic - Bridesmaid Inflation
psyche - How to tolerate annoying things
the atlantic - The Slow Death of Special Education
the atlantic - The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model
flight! so i watched movies: materialists, flow [2024], lee [2023], good fortune
wanted to read more this month. purposely didn't bring a book to europe to do so, but then ended up spending a lot of time on chinese homework (midterms!!) and sleeping from both sickness and exhaustion.
the atlantic - Why Is Everything Spicy Now?
taste - The Expansive, Absurdist Canvas of Tiramisu
airmail - She Faked Her Way into Yale. Then Things Unraveled
the atlantic - The Dangerous Legal Strategy Coming for Our Books
the guardian - Five o’clock dinner crowd: why are young Americans eating so early?
the guardian - Sephora workers on the rise of chaotic child shoppers: ‘She looked 10 years old and her skin was burning’
the ringer - The Age of Corporate Capitulation Won’t Work
LA times - Why do poor Americans eat so unhealthfully? Because junk food is the only indulgence they can afford
"For parents raising their kids in poverty, having to say “no” was a part
of daily life. Their financial circumstances forced them to deny their
children’s requests — for a new pair of Nikes, say, or a trip to
Disneyland — all the time. This wasn’t tough for the kids alone; it also
left the poor parents feeling guilty and inadequate.... Honoring requests for junk food allowed poor parents to show their
children that they loved them, heard them and could meet their needs."
more reading this month. spent a total of 7 HOURS at pepboys (over two visits) for new tires and alignment, plus an oil change. ...don't even ask why it took so long... also, i made an effort to finish my book since i'm not taking one to europe next month.
edge of tomorrow [2014], the squid and the whale [2005]
best american food writing 2019 (ed: samin nosrat)
the guardian - ‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened
the atlantic - Modern Dentistry Is a Microplastic Minefield
"A plastic-bristled toothbrush may add approximately 30 to 120 microparticles of plastic to your diet with each brushing, according to one study. Another
put the estimate at an average of 39 particles a day. Either
calculation suggests that a plastic toothbrush adds tens of thousands of
particles to one’s yearly load of microplastics, which is significant
when considering that estimates of microplastic exposure from food, air, and water put a person’s yearly particle load at more than 100,000."
the atlantic - The States Where It’s Riskier to Have a Baby
"...although
the overall risk of dying from pregnancy is low, mothers living in
states where abortion is banned were nearly twice as likely to die
during pregnancy or childbirth compared with mothers living in states
where abortion is accessible. In states with abortion bans, Black
mothers were more than three times as likely to die as white mothers.
ProPublica found
that when Texas banned abortion after six weeks in 2021, rates of
sepsis increased by more than 50 percent for women hospitalized with
miscarriages in the second trimester, likely because women were being
made to wait until either there was no fetal heartbeat, leaving them at
higher risk for an infection, or their infection became
life-threatening. ProPublica also found
that after Texas banned abortion, blood transfusions during
emergency-room visits for first-trimester miscarriages increased by 54
percent, suggesting that doctors were avoiding performing D&Cs. At least four
women in states with near-total abortion bans have died because they
were denied an abortion, according to news reports. In a 2023 survey
from KFF, a health-care nonprofit, four in 10 ob-gyns in abortion-ban states said the Dobbs ruling made providing care during miscarriages or other pregnancy emergencies harder."
bit more reading this month since we went away to acadia a few days and i didn't both to bring a book.
Punch drink love [2002], the last letter from your lover [2021], tick, tick... boom! [2021]
the atlantic - Inside the USAID Fire Sale
the atlantic - Naturalized Citizens Are Scared
the atlantic - The Anti-Anti-Feminist Election
vox - Gen Z created a new type of man to avoid
natgeo - Inside the Controversial World of Slum Tourism
vox - What happened to the bestselling young white man?
bustle - Your Friends Deserve A "Millennial Thank You Note"
the atlantic - How a Recession Might Tank American Romance
the atlantic - The Least Common, Least Loved Names in America
pc gamer - I Just Found Out What Wi-Fi Means and It’s Sending Me
huff post - This Aggressive Baby Name Trend Is 'Alarming' Experts
stylist - Dreaming About Your Ex? A Psychologist Explains What It Really Means
vice - ‘It’s Unsettling’: The School Where American Kids Rehearse Militia Warfare
bbc - In the country with the world's lowest birth rate, fertility clinics are booming
npr - Ultramarathon runner breastfeeds her baby 3 times on her way to a surprise win
usa today - He’s decided to die. Strangers are sending him prayers — and dinner invitations
the independent - With fewer renters than ever having a living room, this is why the death of the communal space matters
vox - Trump isn’t a toddler — he’s a product of America’s culture of impunity for the rich
the atlantic - You’ll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill
"...as of 2016, the last time the government counted, one-third of American adults ate fast food on any given day..."
vox - 3 takeaways from the most authoritative autopsy of the 2024 election yet
i HATE all these analysis articles of why the dems lost the 2024 election because no one mentions the number reason: CONSERVATIVES LIE. that's basically it. the candidates, the party, the news media, they all LIE consistently, constantly, and about everything. and, obviously, it's hard to win an election when people are being fed what they want to hear, regardless of it being true or not.
atmos - The World Wants Matcha. Japan’s Farms Can’t Keep Up.
"Matcha as a flavouring—in ice creams, in coffee-adjacent drinks—only began in Japan in the 1990s when Western corporations like Haagen Dazs introduced products using lower grade matcha. “If you talk to an older Japanese person, they only drink matcha when they go to temple and there’s a special ceremony, like a wedding,” said Liu, adding that it was mostly white yoga moms, rather than her Asian customers, who sought out matcha at Miro when she first started the business."
"Some are using matcha fever to illustrate the glorification of Japanese culture, and erasure of Chinese history (powdered green tea originated in China during the Tang dynasty, before Buddhist monks introduced it to Japan); others compare the mainstreaming of matcha to chai, predicting Thai tea and Vietnamese coffee to be next in line for whitewashing."
