Who Weekly
The parasocial dynamics of the internet concern me and yet… I willingly give ~3 hours of my week to Lindsey and Bobby’s musings on Who-lebrities. How else could wax poetically about the casting decisions of Dancing with the Stars, the weird wasteland of celebrity ad campaigns, or the state of Rita Ora’s career? 💫
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
In the essay ‘My Vocation,’ Ginzburg wrote: “Now I no longer wanted to write like a man, because I had had children and I thought I knew a great many things about tomato sauce, and even if I didn’t put them in my story it helped my vocation that I knew them.” This book is a novelized memoir of fascism in Italy from the vantage point of someone who knows a great many things about tomato sauce.
Bingo
I went to a casino and found myself bored to death by slot machines and Blackjack. Want the thrill of your life? Play bingo. Want to experience zen washing over you as you hear a sequence of letters and numbers? Play bingo. Want to get into sports betting? Don’t; play bingo. You might even win $100.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child
There’s a recipe in there for Pot-au-feu in which beef, pork, chicken, sausage and vegetables are pulled out of a vat of BOILING water – a performance designed to impress home diners. Only French cooking could produce a dish so disgusting!!!
