july 2022

less reading this month. db stuff, prepping to make a quilt that I'm hand dying with avocado pits, reorganizing the apartment after we sold a few things, j mostly working days.

Westworld (1973), vanilla sky (2001), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999), American Girl (2021), persuasion, who we are: a chronicle of racism in america

NYT - Anatomy of a Product Placement
The Atlantic - It’s All So … Premiocre
NYT - How I Became a Pathological Liar
Kron - California has $600M in unclaimed cans and bottles
CNN - Nobody likes self-checkout. Here's why it's everywhere
Vice - Christian Nationalism Drove These People Out of Their Churches
The New Yorker - The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects
Mel - Inside the World of Investigators Who Know You've Faked Your Death
Life Hacker - The Science Behind Why You Feel Sick When You Try to Read in the Car
Jacobin - The Military Feeds on the Student Debt Crisis With False Promises to Recruits
The Guardian - Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism
19th News - Sex ed was in trouble before Roe v. Wade’s reversal. Now the curriculum matters even more.
My Modern Met - The Story Behind the Original Cover of ‘The Great Gatsby’ and the Artist Who Created It

Bustle - When Is History Ever Too "Female Focused"?
The Guardian - Why do women talk so much? You asked Google – here’s the answer

june 2022

downton abbey: a new era, roadrunner: a film about Anthony bourdain (2021), scanners (1981), seven years in tibet (1997), old (2021)

a book, a book, I've finished a book!
Kurt Kohlstedt and Roman Mars - The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design  

Vox - The college dorm shopping industrial complex is real
Bon Appetit - We Need to Stop Talking About Tipping Fatigue
Axios - Abortions have been increasing since 2017, new data shows
CNN Business - How we got addicted to using Q-tips the wrong way
Nature - The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world
Retail Brew - Smell that? Scents are a key part of a store’s identity, even in Covid
NPR - A California police department offered gas money for unwanted guns. It ran out
Independent - I’m Swedish – it’s true that we don’t serve food to guests. What’s the problem?
The Guardian - It’s not beige, it’s not grey: it’s greige – and it’s why all our houses look the same
HuffPost - Ashley Del Valle, Transgender Woman, Was Jailed As A Man After Allegedly Exposing Breasts
Yahoo News - The end of Korean BBQ in L.A.? What the gas stove ban means for your fave restaurants
Jalopnik - Naked Florida Couple Crashes into FedEx Truck While Doing Things We Can't Explicitly Describe in a Headline

The Guardian - Experience: my face became a meme
The Guardian - ‘The worst person you know’: the man who unwittingly became a meme

ProPublica - Why 18-Year-Olds in Texas Can Buy AR-15s but Not Handguns
Vanity Fair - A Disturbing Percentage of Republicans Think Mass Shootings are Just Something We Have to Accept

The Verge - File Not Found

may 2022

Dear Ex (誰先愛上他的), ben hur (1959), a sun (2019)

The Atlantic - What Alito Got Right
Culture Study - The Age of Houseplants

BBC - The animals that detect disasters
The Atlantic - How Fake Spies Ruin Real Intelligence
Taste - The Tenacious Quest to Find the World’s Best Rice

BuzzFeed News - He Was 5'7". After Surgery, He’ll Be 5'10".
WaPo - Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public library

NYT - Are You Successful? If So, You’ve Already Won the Lottery
NYT - In Sweden, an Experiment Turns Shorter Workdays Into Bigger Gains

USA Today - A Reno man donated his kidney. He received a $13,064 bill in return

The Atlantic - Our Highways Are an Ever-Expanding Museum of America’s Wars

NYT - A Landlord ‘Underestimated’ His Tenants. Now They Could Own the Building.

LA Times - Why do so many L.A. apartments come without fridges? Inside the chilling mystery

National Review - China Censors Its Own National Anthem as Lockdown-Enforcement Measure
CTV News - Woman with disabilities nears medically assisted death after futile bid for affordable housing

Calgary Herald - Canadian astronauts no longer free to rob and kill with abandon in space or on the moon
SF Gate - 'Buy now, pay later' is sending the TikTok generation spiraling into debt, popularized by San Francisco tech firms
San Fransisco Chronical - She sold her home for nearly half its $1 million value. The ‘pay it forward’ deal is a new tactic in the Bay Area’s housing crisis
FiveThirtyEight - Prisons, Water Infrastructure And Broadband: Where States Are Spending Their Pandemic Relief Funding

Vox - Gen Z does not dream of labor

Galaxy Brain - What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'

Atlas Obscura - The Surprising, Overlooked Artistry of Fruit Stickers

Fast Company - The delightful history of fruit stickers, the world’s tiniest canvases for graphic design

april 2022

j is now on the 4/10 schedule (10 hour shifts,4 days a week) and some night so I have more time to myself to read and do whatever. i have also found a trove of chinese (I think mostly taiwanese) movies on netflix which I intend to get thru.

the lobster (2015), everything everywhere all at once, Little Big Women (孤味) (2020) couple random netflix documentaries

Sapiens - Untangling Race From Hair
Slate - Stop Venting! It Doesn’t Work.
Harper's Bazaar - Mommies Who Mushroom
ESPN - The friendship that divides the NBA
The Atlantic - Community Input Is Bad, Actually
NYT - Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing
Racked - The Death of the Great American Sporting Goods Store
Fatherly - How to Make Better Joint Decisions With Your Partner
LA Times - As inflation soars, how is AriZona iced tea still 99 cents?
The Guardian - Elon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense
Quartz - How companies are hiding inflation without charging you more
The New Yorker - Joe Manchin Can’t Shoot Down the Logic of a Wealth Tax
Refinery29 - “I Don’t Deserve To Be Burned Out.” How Capitalism Complicates Rest
FiveThirtyEight - Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women
FiveThirtyEight - Congress Found An Easy Way To Fix Child Poverty. Then It Walked Away.

Rewire News Group - When a Miscarriage Becomes a Jail Sentence

NYT - No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage
The Atlantic - The Marriage Lesson That I Learned Too Late

march 2022

barely any reading this month. the "breakup," birthday, j's schedule moving to days, associated lifestyle changes have severely cut down on my free time. I have tho, been listening to a lot of podcasts, especially EconTalk, which, while very interesting, always manages to lull me sleep after about 20 minutes.  

fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald, hating peter tatchell

The Atlantic - The Package Is the Message
Undark - Why Birth Control Side Effects Have Eluded Science
Inc. - 70 Percent of Employees Are Saying 'No, Thanks' to a Promotion. Here's What They Want Instead

february 2022

incredibly little reading this month. we went away for an extended weekend, it was a shorth month, and i watched love is blind, season two.

tinder swindler, the power of the dog, feminists: what were they thinking (2018), i lost my body (2019)

BBC - Why the Dutch embrace floating homes
Wired - Online Shopping Is Reshaping Real-World Cities
Teen Vogue - Noncitizen Voting: New York Should Be an Example for Other States
Wired - In the 2008 Olympics, Beijing Felt Like an Open Door. In 2022, It's Closed
Teen Vogue - Is Slavery Still Legal in the U.S.? Yes, Under the 13th Amendment Exception
MSN - 5 Olympic skiers disqualified for baggy outfits: 'They destroyed women’s ski jumping'
USA Today - A priest incorrectly performed thousands of baptisms for decades – by changing one word
Daily Mail - £740,000 painting is ruined after 'bored' security guard draws eyes on faceless figures on his first day in the job at Russian gallery