10 Things: Returns, Rentals, Recs
All my recommendations on things to read, see, think about, ponder, appreciate, eat, watch, listen to, do, and more this week.
Hello My Friend,
Without meaning to, I seem to have changed the days that I release newsletters. These recommendations used to come out on Fridays. But then, Fridays felt like days to melt butter on popcorn and get in the inflatable pool with my kid, and it was difficult to type because of greasy fingers and wet toes, so Fridays became Saturdays became Sundays, and now I find I send the recommendations on Mondays.1 Is that OK?
Which means I send the Monday newsletters on Tuesdays, which means I send the Tuesday newsletters on Thursdays. It’s like this with gardens and recipes, too: you arrange things one way, but sort of move the peppers over there a little bit until suddenly it’s a different thing altogether, now isn’t it? But this schedule is sticky for the time being. Monday recommendations it is.
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READ: Orders
Author
at The Chatner has three highly readable and delightful lists that exist for philosophical fodder and possibly pure folly. My favorite one is this one (“Possible Dinnertimes, In Order of Moral Laxity”), but there is also one for Waking Up Times and one for Room Temperatures.BINGE: “Lovesick” on Netflix
I watched this on the recommendation of The Erins (the paid subscriber tier of this newsletter), who emphatically named it as a “cozy” show about chlamydia. I’d previously written it off because it was set in Scotland and mononormative. It is both of those things, but it is also a witty rom-com, easy-to-watch and with a great soundtrack. It reminds me of what I thought it would be like to be in my twenties. My twenties weren’t really at all like that, but maybe that’s just because I didn’t live in England, who knows. Nevertheless, yes, “cozy” is right, and Luke recently asked me why I’d been using the word “charming” so much in conversation.
LISTEN: Selena Gomez - “Single Soon”
I’ll just let you read what
wrote about this single (which I have listened to approximately 12 million times since it came out and am listening to right now, even):“Single Soon” is exactly what I want from a Selena Gomez song: lusciously everything and deliriously nothing! This is a song for a Netflix YA series and the too-loud bar of your nearest SoHo house. This is a song for the bachelorette you’re really not sure why you were invited to. This is a song for when your waxer tells you “Ok now quick exhale.” And I love it!
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