*The Week in 15 Selections*
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Welcome back to the week in 15 selections! I have been not having a great time with my mental health so short intro this week.
Does anyone have towels they actually like? I am making my plans for what to buy on Black Friday and I want towels that are ACTUALLY absorbent and come in good colors. Please help me.
My friend Tuck Woodstock has a new anthology out full of really good, weird writing called Sex Change and the City. You can buy it here.
I liked this essay by Sam Graham-Felsen about taking his son to national parks and trying to decide how tough a boy should try to be.
Sardine vase!!!
The new Hilary Duff song sounds like “Teenage Dream” to me, but guess what? I love “Teenage Dream!
I really liked reading this Kate Wagner blog about having both long covid and hypochondria.
If anyone knows where I can get a copy of Off Cuts please let me know. I want to read it.
Read Sarah Kliff on the failure of fetal heart monitoring and how it leads to even more C-sections.
Bookmarking this blog about How To Watch Hockey for every single time I try to watch hockey until I learn how.
Really good opening paragraph:
As the parent of an 18-month-old, I’ve been reading a lot lately. That is, if your definition of reading includes thumbing through sheets of increasingly careworn and spittle-soaked cardboard, reciting the 30 or 40 words that compose each tale from memory, and pausing innumerable times to acknowledge any shape that may evoke the holiest of trinities: ball, bug, star.
Unfortunately after a year of consideration and planning, I did finally buy a Babaa sweater for this winter, and it is absolutely incredible and I love it. I’m gonna put it in my will.
I really like these almost ignorant style cowboy paintings by Maria Murphy:
Eddy Burback’s video about how Chat-GPT made him delusional is funny until you remember that people are actually doing this.
This week I wrote about my bake (weird cake!) and about the new Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro but that’s not out yet.