Hi! How was your week? Mine was exciting with my return to writing here. Also, it’s noticeably lighter out later in Brooklyn now, which feels really nice. I haven’t quite figured out what to do with these link round-up posts yet. Do you still like end-of-week link roundups? Would you like to see something different to wrap up the week? Let me know in the comments. For now, here are 12 things I watched/read/ate/did this week, and please share any notable things you consumed in the comments!
1. This video of a hummingbird snoring might be the sweetest sound on the internet.
2. Baked lentil patties, which were good, and I’ll make them again for sure. But the herby yogurt sauce was the real star. We also did the cornflake crust.
3. Updates from the World Marathon Challenge, where runners completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. I could hardly walk the day after I ran the NYC Marathon so I can’t even imagine doing seven marathons in a row.
4. The last episode of Bad Sisters. I’m late to this but Sharon Horgan is so good.
5. “Good Conversations Have Lots of Doorknobs,” by Adam Mastroianni for his newsletter Experimental History. Not a new article, and I can’t remember where I saw this link, but definitely worth a read.
6. A bag of Katjes gummies, in one sitting, which is a weekly occurrence.
7. This caption by Sharon Santoni. “Today is my 64th birthday. Why am I telling you this? Because I’m often asked how old I was when I started my blog (51), when I published my first book (56), when I started my business (58) and my magazine (60). I’m here to say that there is no good or bad age to reinvent yourself…”
8. “Bring Back Personal Blogging,” by Monique Judge for The Verge. Fully agree with this for obvious reasons, but also the point about controlling your own platform.
9. Too many music videos to count, all from the aughts for research for my post on mixtapes.
10. A new spool of Cocofloss. Mint always.
11. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the Marvel movie that takes place after King T’Challa’s death. Honestly, I liked it more than I thought I would, and I also liked how the movie honored Chadwick Boseman.
12. “Do You Know How to Behave? Are You Sure?” the new etiquette rules for, well, everything, published by NYMag. This is a doozie and long (too long?), but interesting to reflect on how the pandemic has shifted our thinking on a lot of these things.
Thanks again for being here, and I hope you have a fun weekend. xo
(Photo by Otto Norin/Unsplash.)