10 Things: Laugh, Clean, Pretend, Repeat
All my recommendations for what to watch, think about, read, consider, cook, buy, and more this week.
Dear Friends,
I have… 35 things on my “to recommend list.” These are the first ten that are rising to the surface. Lots more to come in the new year. (I also have a guest list that I am very excited about in the queue for next week, so strap in.) The first three are free. Paid subscribers get a recipe, a pigeon essay, very fun watching material, and much more. It’s a good list this week. One of my favorites ever. Onward!
WATCH: Rini by Myq Kaplan
If you’ve been here [indicates to This Newsletter] for any amount of time, you will recognize the name Myq Kaplan, whose brilliant comments are more valuable, probably, than most of what I write in my body text here. Myq is an incredibly generous human being and a truly brilliant comedian — a treasure of a person to know and to know about. He has been making comedy for 20 years, and recently released a highly polished and undeniable special named after his longterm girlfriend, Rini Voskressensky. It’s hard to describe Myq’s comedy without showing you; he’s a one-of-a-kind comic, whose thoughts are usually a little in front of themselves, so you’re laughing out loud at a joke he told three jokes ago, and he’s already onto something you’re going to be laughing about on the car ride home. Myq has so much material that whittling it down to a tight hour represents a true feat of editing; and it’s available to stream on YouTube! For free! Today! I haven’t put out a 10 Things since Myq put out this special in mid-November, so I’m very eager to get this on your radar if it’s not already. Make 2026 the year you consume great comedy!
BUY: Keyboard cleaning goop ($10-ish)
Weird to say that I think my favorite Christmas present this year was this little jar from my friend Montana, who read that I wanted something clean my keyboard with in a recent newsletter and then brought this to my house in a gift bag. This did what I wanted it to do, which was to get into the cracks of my keyboard and pick up a bunch of dust and food bits, etc. I gooped with this for about an hour, and found it very satisfying. And now I bought a cover to go over my keys, and I hope I don’t have to be freaked out by keyboard hair anymore for the foreseeable future.
SUBSCRIBE: Just Pretend You Belong by Coté De Santiago
Looking for a great comics-forward Substack? Coté is interested in loneliness, binational identity, parenting, and The Heart, and she draws about all this in interesting, accessible ways that will both charm and disarm you.
