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Hola, Casita
My friend who was also my college roommate came over for wine and stayed for dinner, and I pulled together a garlic-sauteed corn, avocado, and arugula salad topped with the fish cakes you can cook from frozen from Rosemont1 and then she wrote and mailed a thank you note on nice stationery? Who are these grown and capable women, who once decorated with a $15 couch a freshman barfed on the first night we had it and a poster from the movie Armageddon?
The rhubarb bourbon collins at Cocktail Mary, y’all.
My friend Domenique lost her younger brother when he was 28, and one of the things she missed most was sending him “silly, adorable and totally inappropriate things.” She started @textsforjohn, an Instagram account devoted to the awesome things she would have shared with him. Her essay in Modern Loss will break your heart and make you smile.
Stuff I’ve Bought That I Love
Nantucket Spider incense sticks keep mosquitos away and make your yard smell like a low key folk festival.
I am a graphic designer now; did you know?
Read This
This dude’s only contribution to this earth was his obituary, which he didn’t write. The last line is so good, I envisioned an intermediate poetry class hearing it read aloud and all doing that poetry moan-murmur-grunt people do at readings.
Okay, watch this: Bob Mould and Ben Gibbard perform Hüsker Dü’s “Makes No Sense At All” in Milwaukee. Read Jason Narducy’s Twitter; he’s hilarious and one of my favorite artists to see live.
I picked up Elie Mystal’s “Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution” at the airport. His thesis is that the Constitution is a bad first draft, but it doesn’t have to be — we all need to better understand the rights granted by this document so we can defend them.
“This stuff can be complicated, but it’s not beyond the reach of most people. It’s like building a bike. A box of tires and pipes and chains and screws is intimidating, unless it comes with an instruction manual. I’m going to show how conservatives are building their white supremacist ride, and how liberals can throw a spanner in the works.”
Eat This
Something like this: slice, salt/pepper, and roast potatoes and a peeled/cored kohlrabi for 20 minutes. Rehydrate a small handful of currants in hot water, chop some pistachios and sweet hot peppers. Cook some salmon or another fish with shawarma spice or smoky paprika. Mix two tbs tahini with juice of half a lemon; schmear that on the plate. Mix the roasted vegetables and drained currants into arugula, squeeze in the rest of the lemon and a little olive oil, salt, pepper. Put the salad part on the tahini schmear and the fish on that and the pistachios and peppers on that, call it dinner.
We Love a Good Print
Poemies for my Homies
Joy Division
I hesitate to tell anyone about these fish cakes, because I’m mad when they’re out, but they’re so good and so easy: you can cook them from frozen in ten minutes and put them on a salad.