Canned turtle meat (and mock turtle meat) was real…

Whenever people talk about how wonderful and practical The Joy of Cooking is, how it taught them the basics, I’m like ???

I always found Sontag’s Against Interpretation unsatisfying because it posits a binary between the pure realm of sensual perception vs the analytical realm of interpretation. When feelings and perceptions ARE interpretation — a work of art can “feel” cold because of its formal properties.

My daughter described her foot falling asleep as “there is seltzer in my feet”

I listened to Call Her Daddy once back when it was still the two chicks and it was literally just maenads moaning incoherently… I would never have guessed it would become an object of Democratic Capture

San Francisco should be a romantic city but it’s not

Rereading a book from childhood. Unlike Montgomery’s Anne series, which I loved to death, Emily unsettled me. In her world, ordinary people are never kind, always petty and cruel; the only real love is the Freudian sticky kind of crazed single parents living in the past. Emily’s writing has a vindictive quality unlike Anne’s imagination— a form of revenge against those who have wronged her. Not as pleasant, but probably a more honest account of the artistic spirit…

Absolutely insane how much modern parenting advice involves explaining abstract therapeutic principles to 5 year olds

My favorite Taylor songs are the one-word titles: Mine, Clean, Style

British food names are so funny “bangers and mash” “bubbles and squeak”

I don’t understand why people have to go to the grocery store more than once a week like what are you buying

Is it Montale lol

I love Financial Audit, it’s better stuff than modern literary fiction

I’ve literally never heard of the “fantasy bra” until this week