October 2024

less reading this month, more movies: helped a friend move, and flew back to Boston. 

babes, madame clicquot [2024], holy frit [2021]

September 2024

too hot to leave the house and no TV in my room so am reading more, much more. also! i started a new quilt, and had pocket read aloud my articles since i ran out of new podcast episodes. it's actually really great when i tend to prefer to read articles less than 8 minutes long (i dunno why such a specific number), but now i can get thru my really long articles!

movie: beetlejuice beetlejuice

books: Elizabeth Kolbert - the sixth extinction, Kurt vonnegut - slaughterhouse five, General Smedley D Butler - War Is a Racket, Jonah berger - contagious, why things catch on

eater - Field of Dreams
the atlantic - The Crybaby Olympics
eater - Restaurant Math Isn’t Working
taste - Bring Back Those Pumped Italian Sodas
fatherly - The Paternal Urge To Toss Your Baby
time - The Parents Who Regret Having Children
mental floss - Why Are Airplane Windows Round?
the atlantic - How Snacks Took Over American Life
vox - How the seasons screw with your moral compass
wapo - Opinion Why not pay teachers $100,000 a year?
the atlantic - A Food-Allergy Fix Hiding in Plain Sight
vox - How Did Home Cooking Become a Moral Issue?
nyt - Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often
vox - Pregnancy in America is starting to feel like a crime
the atlantic - The Real Reason People Aren’t Having Kids
dwell - Are White Fridges Really Coming Back Into Style?
atlas obscura - When Every Ketchup But One Went Extinct
michigan department of state -  2024 "I voted" sticker contest
the new yorker - Why You Can't Get a Restaurant Reservation
vox - The case against otters: necrophiliac, serial-killing fur monsters of the sea
bbc - How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet
fast company - How the pineapple became an icon of hookup culture everywhere
npr - Eating less beef is a climate solution. Here's why that's hard for some American men
the drive - Swiss BMW Driver Slammed With $116,000 Tailgating Fine Because He’s Rich
thrillist - Nothing Could Prepare Me for the Bizarre 'Live Birth' Experience at Babyland Hospital
the smithsonian - The Rebellious History of Mooncakes, the Note-Passing Dessert That Liberated China

vox - The moral case for paying kidney donors
npr - There’s a severe kidney shortage. Should donors be compensated?
the guardian - ‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade

slate - The Parents Who Want Daughters—and Daughters Only

cosmo - Inside the Conservative-Backed Movement to Make Divorce Almost Impossible for Young Women

august 2024

breezed thru my first book in YEARS! and so for fun, finished a serving as well! also spent more time reading my longer saved articles on pocket. also watched a few movies :) this is what happens, I guess, when I have no craft materials? also, j had surgery this month and also focused on reading which meant i did more of it as well.

Atul Gawande - complications, Lauren Slayer - Opening Skunner's Box

american society of magical negros, didi, Deadpool and wolverine, afterlife [1998], little buddha [1993]

the hustle - Who are fossils for?
the atlantic - The New Age of Endless Parenting
smithsonian magazine - A Brief History of Peanut Butter
the atlantic - Why Parents Don’t Mind If Their Kids Don’t Marry
the guardian - Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice?
wired - I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget.
nyt - In the Fierce Lobster Roll Rivalry, There Are Only Winners
bbc - Japan is recycling food waste back into food with fermentation
the romper - The Couple Who Run Their Relationships Like A Corporation
texas monthly - A New Vending Machine Sells Bullets Next Door to a Middle School
wapo - How ‘Skibidi Toilet’ became one of the most valuable franchises in Hollywood
npr - Disney backtracks on request to toss wrongful death suit over Disney+ agreement
thrillist - How to Appreciate, and Then Eradicate, California’s Least Favorite Wildflower
wired - I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?
the outline - How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company, and HuffPost stories
popular science - Why Do Cats—and So Many Other Animals—Look Like They’re Wearing Socks?
mental floss - When a Captive Shark Vomited Up a Human Arm—and Sparked a Murder Investigation
screenshot - Skibidi Toilet: Exploring the dystopian Gen Alpha trend, from brain rot to Michael Bay movies

the atlantic - The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports

the atlantic - A Shocking Number of Killers Murder Their Co-workers 

3 quarks daily - Lessons From Singapore – The Power Of Homeownership

wapo - The One Thing You Should Look for on Clothing Labels When You Go Shopping

cbs news - Americans say money can buy happiness. Here's their price tag.
"Median household income in the U.S. stands at about $74,000 annually, but respondents told Empower that they'd need to earn roughly $284,000 each year to achieve happiness. And as for wealth, Americans said they'd need even more in the bank to feel content: $1.2 million..."

July 2024

a lot of reading this month! i got a new phone and haven't installed instagram on it, so instead read from pocket instead when i'm out and get bored. at least for now, i don't intend to re-install insta.

high life [2018], men [2022], midsommar [2019]

songs of the moment: myles smith - solo, morgan wallen - wasted on you

romper - Folding Clothes Is A Scam
grist - Why can't we just quit cows?
taste - Can Dried Fruit Get a Facelift?
bbc - The rise of the ‘no-wash’ movement
business insider - The rise of 'friendly' fraud
economist - Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
taste - The Nail Art Restaurant Will Seat You Now
outside - This Is How Your Backpacking Meals Are Really Made
mental floss - 10 Inventors Who Came to Regret Their Creations
the hustle - The wild tale of the man who founded Rainforest Cafe
the hustle - The one person in America happy about tipping fatigue
bbc news - The Joy and the Trauma of Carrying a Celebrity’s Baby
nyt - The Mixed Martial Artist Who Became the King of Tidy Eating
business insider - Why so many men in the US have stopped working
nyt - He’s Baseball’s Only Mud Supplier. It’s a Job He May Soon Lose.
the cut - Why Would Anyone Look for a Sperm Donor on Facebook?
nyt - The Youngest Pandemic Children Are Now in School, and Struggling
inverse - America's Favorite Fruit Reveals The Hidden Truth About Food Waste
wapo - Road Rage Is Up. How to Deal With an Angry Driver — Even if It’s You.
cnbc - ‘NEETS’ and ‘new unemployables’ — why some young adults aren’t working
wfae - RNC represents culmination of a decades-old movement in the Republican Party
life hacker - Dating Profiles, Bakeries, and Other Unexpected Places With Secret Codes
refinery29 - We Aren’t Leaving It Too Late To Have Children, We’re Being Screwed Over
npr - How ob-gyns are handling more requests for sterilization after ‘Roe’ was overturned
mental floss - King of Quarters: The ‘Pay Phone Bandit’ Who Baffled the FBI in the ’80s
la times - People are obsessed with this weird pizza box. The company behind it won’t discuss it
the guardian - ‘Clearly, I have no rizz’: can a 60-year-old misanthrope polish up his pulling power?
business insider - Turbulence is getting more frequent and more severe. An aviation and climate expert explains why. 

vox - The Christian right is coming for divorce next

the marshall project -  The New Battle Over an Old Institution: Forced Prison Labor

june 2024

friends and then j's brother visited this month, so less tv, but much more reading since i spent less time in the living room (which has the tv) where j's brother n was sleeping. altho, homie LOVES tiktok so i had a lot of my own internet time.

trainwreck [2015], binging all the seasons of Girls from HBO [i love how fearless lena dunham is!]

taste - to eat a dairy cow
vulture - The Love Machine
vox - Rent control for child care?
nyt - The Lost Art of the Negative
taste - the secret lives of private chefs
the dial - Who’s Afraid of Mickey Mouse?
the atlantic - The Hidden Cost of Cheap TVs
vogue - What Is the Right Price for Fashion?
the atlantic - Surprise! You Work for Amazon.
eater - How Cookie Jars Capture American Kitsch
taste - Order Your Next Mac and Cheese From…Etsy?
gq - Spouse Out of Town? It’s Time For ‘Husband Meal’
the atlantic - Dog Food Is So Fancy Now That I Ate Some
wired - Can’t Afford a House? Buy a Piece of One Instead
the cut - What It’s Like to Not Buy New Clothes for 7 Years
scientific american - Why Do People in Relationships Cheat?
hakai - Iceland’s Quest to Use 100 Percent of Its Fish Waste
mental floss - Why Do People Toss Shoes Over Power Lines?
eater - The Very Capitalist History of the American Coffee Break
business insider - Your complete guide to America's weird new tribes.
wired - Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable - But You're Eating Them Wrong
slash film - Only One of the Simpsons' Catchphrases was Actually Created by the Show
the guardian - Misophonia: how ‘sound rage’ destroys relationships and forces people to move home

the atlantic - Why Do So Many Parents Think Kids Need Their Own Bedroom?

may 2024

lots of movies this month, with the driving up to boston, settling in, and trip planning

a single man [2009], Amadeus [1984], dark waters [2019], rather [2023], butterfly in the sky [2023], downtown abbey: the movie [2019], civil war, enders game [2013], 15 minutes of shame [2021]

nyt - Can This Man Stop Lying?
mental floss - What Do A.M. and P.M. Stand For?
kcrw - Is Trader Joe’s stealing food ideas from small producers?
npr - These identical twins both grew up with autism, but took very different paths
npr - A year later, Florida businesses say the state's immigration law dealt a huge blow
sf gate - One of the most unusual heists in America seems to be unfolding at Taco Bell
cbs news - Americans think they pay too much in taxes. Here's who pays the most and least to the IRS.
la times - The shocking state of the restaurant industry: ‘We can’t afford to be open. We can’t afford to be closed.’
cnn - She set out to find a husband in a year. Then she matched with a guy on a dating app on the other side of the world

the atlantic - Welcome to Kidulthood
"Surveys have found that four in 10 American adults sleep with stuffed animals."

the atlantic - Will Americans Ever Get Sick of Cheap Junk?
"Shein shoppers are considerably more likely to express concern about the environment and sustainability than shoppers overall."