color theory and charlie puth's tethered

April 26, 2021

When I spin the proverbial color wheel of artificial flavors, it's easy to choose my favorites. I rebuff the racialized assumptions tied to my love of the...

hy-a-lu-ronic acid and smoothie bowl ire

April 19, 2021

I've been trying to figure out if I still know how to drive. I know they say it's like riding a bike, but I genuinely do not know the last time my feet slid...

papaya fantasies and artistic plantain

April 12, 2021

No activity has the power to set me into an emotional tailspin like washing dishes. If there was a philosophical theory, an offshoot of existentialism...

cola beer and iterative basil

April 5, 2021

I wish I could say I have never laughed at a prank. Pranks are so vulgar , nothing more than half-baked jokes with humor rooted in quiet cruelty. But Punk'd...

giant egg meditation and cereal shrimp

March 29, 2021

The weather is getting warmer and if I was a better person, I'd be leaning into the rituals of spring cleaning. Saturday morning soundtracks of my youth both...

doughboy alchemy and ideal wafer ratios

March 22, 2021

I'm being haunted by the Pillsbury Doughboy. Hunted by the Pillsbury Doughboy? I have felt his presence looming in my subconscious since I saw this german...

spray milk and bad vibe insurance

March 15, 2021

Do you know what day it is? Did you know what day it was yesterday? The think piece industrial complex has suddenly decided we should be cognizant of the...

sherbet etymology and mcflurry showers

March 8, 2021

There is nothing more vulgar to me than the appearance of ease. I love effort; I love the entrapments of beauty even when they err towards a burden. This has...

sleep demons and shroom cream

March 1, 2021

Since the beginning, this newsletter has been a quiet ode to my love of artificial energy. Both in its pure 5-hour essence and through remembrances of the...

vintage chip merch and rice cake trauma

February 22, 2021

It is easy to spot when form is prioritized over function but can you recognize when each principle is held in equal regard? Yes, I'm talking about one of...

medieval ice cream and insincere beans

February 15, 2021

A few weeks ago, Twitter was plastered with one of those call-and-response format tweets that range from an exercise in terrible opsec(no one other than...

starburst effigies and cashew soda

February 8, 2021

Do you ever look deep inside and acknowledge the forces that shaped you? Not in terms of nature vs. nurture, but at the cultural influences you willingly...

slime cocktails and onomatopoeia chips

February 1, 2021

I don't know the meaning of the word "lazy." As a pejorative, as a self-descriptor, it says nothing. If this was a 7th-grade essay, I could throw the...

uniqlo cup noodles and 130% juice

January 25, 2021

I'm a year older and I made it through the week mostly unscathed. Of course, my emotional Overton window has shifted to where that isn't much of an...

coughdrop brinkmanship and asmr chips

January 18, 2021

When I'm sleep-deprived, I hallucinate. It used to scare me, and maybe it still should, but I appreciate that my body gives me a clear signal to slow down. I...

biscuit exceptionalism and daddy hats

January 11, 2021

Congratulations! You've made it through the first year of 2021. It may have only technically been seven days, but linear time is a fallacy that capitalism...

boozy mayonnaise and bubblegum tea

January 4, 2021

Nowadays,I don't make many choices, life makes them for me. I don't feel beholden to the forces of fate, but there always seems to be one logical path to...

silent lasagna and ice cream mcgriddles

December 30, 2020

It seems my brain put up an out of office message without notice because I am running on fumes. And thinking about Lil Wayne's " real gs move in silence like...

redemption grapes and creamy clouds

December 21, 2020

My mom corrected me when I tried to estimate how many years my family spent in the house my parents moved out of earlier this week. For an entire lifetime,...

cola marmalade and ashy booze

December 14, 2020

I didn't expect to spend so much of this year thinking about logistics. There are silent negotiations and scratch calculations, mismanaged time and...

drew barrymore's scream wig & hot coke

December 7, 2020

Jiffy Pop popcorn makes me think of Drew Barrymore. Of Drew and that depressing caucasian bayang in the opening of SCREAM (1996). And about how the first...

himbo soda and anime penny candy

November 30, 2020

I've been considering getting a weighted blanket. Not because I’m having trouble sleeping. Because it is the time of year when my bed gains a magnetic pull...

jug wine and anthropomorphized salsa

November 23, 2020

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to feel small. Not to feel young. I still remember aching for adulthood and for freedom that I now know doesn't...

a rich inner life and hot smoothies

November 16, 2020

Who decided that having a rich inner life is a good thing. I think they should drop a pin so I can fight them for perpetuating such a terrible lie. The false...

the devil's pizza and non-canon smurfs

November 9, 2020

This week I've been thinking about comfort. About comfort as a communal act. About comfort as a negotiation instead of a fixed state. About comfort as an...

trash nostalgia and snack adrenaline

November 2, 2020

Looking back on the early era of reality TV and the shock oriented programming that raised me, I have a lot of affection for genuine trash. It's my trash,...

body horror donuts and fruit taxonomy

October 26, 2020

I've never gone trick-or-treating. It doesn't feel like there is a plastic pumpkin-sized void in my childhood because I grew up in Minnesota. It was always...

easy guilt and homemade dunkaroos

October 19, 2020

I don't like to think I am someone who moralizes the things that bring me joy in life. I don't have guilty pleasures because I come to the emotion of guilt...

no thoughts head empty

October 12, 2020

I stopped dreaming a few months ago. Every night I drift into the void and wake, not rested per se, but without the disturbing sensation that my brain was...

reality is a fallacy but snacks aren't

October 5, 2020

Since quarantine began, most of my days run together. I shower twice a day because it is easier than trying to figure out if I forgot. I turned off screen-...

miel pops zhu zhu

September 28, 2020

I’m lucky to have reached this point of the pandemic with brain cells left. Not many but there are a few that I can call upon if it is a special occasion....

is lava the ultimate unsnackable?

September 21, 2020

The last few months have been a successful exercise in indulging my hyperfixations. Not on reality. Never on reality, on incredibly dumb things like lava....

vending machines and an origin story

September 13, 2020

I was in elementary school when I first tried to understand what makes the perfect snack. My parents had two vending machines, one for snacks and one for...

this newsletter is a small tantrum about international snacks, beverages & fast food that I want but cannot have

September 11, 2020

I’m just a girl trying to cope with a deeply ingrained "there's rice at home" mindset by dreaming about a world of inaccessible snacks & cooking complicated...