streaking, baked eggs, deadly valentines, tarot
12 things I've consumed + The Best Thing I Ate All Week
A ketchup + mustard situation.
🌝 13 THINGS I’VE CONSUMED
🧥 Jacket pockets
The best part of winter is pockets.
In summer, my arms are in a constant flailing commotion. Jackets provide sheltered refuge, a snug terminal to park my hands. Plus, jacket pockets provide more room for snacks.
🫦 I love - Jacques-Bernard Brunius
🧽 Cleaning your house before a trip
It feels oh-so-good to return after an exhausting trip to a clean bed, spotless bathroom, & an empty hamper.
✍️ Stuck In Love
The movie is about a family of sensitive writers, beach cigarettes, & longing.
A perfect cold weather, rainy day watch.
🏃♀️ ‘It wasn’t sexual in any way!’ 50 years of streaking – by the people who dared to bare all
Examples of streaking can be found down the ages – according to legend, in the 11th century, Lady Godiva rode naked on horseback through Coventry to protest about draconian tax laws. But modern streaking – people running naked, fast as a streak of lightning, through a public space – first became popular on US college campuses in the late 1960s. It was fun, liberating and reflected the spirit of hippiedom.
Great streaks are audacious, laugh-out-loud and high-risk, usually involving stewards or police officers falling over mid-chase. Some have been to raise attention about civic, personal or political issues (students have streaked to protest against education cuts and environmentalists to condemn mining); others have been to raise money or simply to raise a laugh.
Eggs (pasture raised), heavy cream, sage, rosemary, garlic, parsley, butter, salt.
Combine the ingredients in a ramekin & place under the broiler.
Serve with a baguette & a glass of picpoul.
📖 Jazz for reading on the commute home
I’ve really enjoyed listening to this playlist on the way home from a long day. Decompress, open up your book, & manifest a commute without any signal malfunctions.
💌 Joana Avillez Paperless Post Invitations
Joana is my favorite illustrator. Her illustrations are zippy & mischievous. They are playful & quixotic. They make me smile.
While digital invitations are fundamentally impersonal, Joana has created a series of Paperless Post invitations that imbue more personality than the usual tepid invitation populated in your inbox.
For any (very!) last minute holiday parties, flex these as a semblance of poised planning.
👩❤️💋👨 “Are you two lovers?”
The best first question to be asked by a stranger at a party.
🫠 No worries if not - Haley Nahman
I’ve thought about this writeup for a while.
I’m terrible at asking for things, punctuating requests with qualifiers such as: if not, all good / it’s okay if you can’t / really not a big deal, it’s not that important
Haley breaks down two types of communicators: Askers & Guessers. The post is worth a read, as it provided me a (Guesser) license to be more forthright & candid without fear of high-stakes conflict or rejection. Anyways, give it a read as it’s much more nuanced! & let’s discuss.
Wouldn’t it be nice, we agreed, to simply ask for what we wanted in a straightforward way, and accept the answer without expectation? The sales pitch for Guess culture is that it’s more conscientious and considerate, but isn’t it equally true that by padding everything with caveats and easy outs, we assume people aren’t capable of asking or answering a yes or no question, of handling or expressing the truth?
👁️ Sauron > Charli XCX
🕳️ A tarot reading
While I’m not especially familiar with tarot, we have a deck at home & pull cards on occasion. This past week, I went to Eva for an impromptu reading. While I wasn’t provided the ‘The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, & Everything’ (which is 42), it was an invitation for pause & reflection— more therapeutic than divination.
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What is this thing?
Donate $60 & you receive this 12” plush amphibian.
Through the World Wildlife Fund website, you can also adopt red pandas, Komodo dragons, & African wild dogs, among others.
A gift idea for young children to learn about animals & get a nice squishy toy.
🎁 Gift guides
I already provide enough gift ideas for you guys to give me, sooo… no.
🏳️🌈 J.Crew inspired by Josef Albers
👖 Uniqlo HEATTECH Tights
‘tis the season
💘 Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
I’ve found my deadly valentine.
🎁 3 GOODIES I WANT
👟 Hiking Patrol x Diemme Movida - $455
If I had unlimited money, I would spend it all on shoes. It’s not a particularly wise personal finance strategy, but it makes sense to me. I dig this collab, most especially the deep aubergine leather & the oversized tongue, the design on which is reminiscent of soccer cleats that I had when I was younger.
How nice would it be to receive these under the tree on Christmas morning??
I love this cute lil light— a battery-powered, tomato-shaped, Japanese-papered lamp. We need more lighting in our bedroom & I think this would imbue nice mood lighting, esp. if the bulb was replaced with a red alternative.
The Etsy job says that they’re backed up & won’t ship for a few months— just in time for tomato season.
🌯 Burrito from Don Carlos, La Jolla - $11.50
I’ll see you soon, my lovely.
p.s. Their domain is eataburrito.com, which is so cool.
🦪 THE BEST THING I ATE ALL WEEK
In these tempestuous times, I gravitate towards escapist movies & novels that take flight far, far away from the here & now. I’m halfway through Harry Potter & keen for a LOTR rewatch. Oh, & I just rewatched Up. Pixar is a soul-salve, just remember.
Anyways, food has a similarly transportive quality. A spoonful of refried beans ignites memories of Christmas Eve & peppermint schnapps reminds me of my first disastrous college party.
Yet I sometimes eat something that kindles a fantasy yet unrealized. For example, I grate parmesan on my pasta in my tiny home kitchen, but I quietly dream of rolling an 80-pound cheese wheel into Massimo Bottura’s kitchen in Emilia-Romagna. He’ll prepare me a private dinner & I’ll devour a whole pound. The rest will be shipped back with me, an entire airplane seat dedicated to buckling in the valuable cheese.
We hosted a holiday party this past week & the spread was understandably delicious: latkes, cookies, pigs in blankets, nuts, a panoply of dips, & an abundance of wine.
My favorite bite of the night (& of The Week!) was a gilda: a common Basque snack constituting a skewer of an anchovy, a guindilla pepper, & an olive. The umami from the anchovy, the sweet & heat from the pepper, & the brininess from the olive are a combination much greater than the sum of its parts. Downing the gilda in a single bite provoked a seaside Spanish fantasy. I’m on a barstool drinking a cold beer, the sun is shining, & I make eyes with her across the room. She glides over to me in a white sun dress & looks into my eyes. “Do you have a lover?”
🪤 THE FINAL WORD
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- jefe
GILDAS 4EVER 💘
im late but feeling THIS ***Cleaning your house before a trip*** so hard rn.