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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...
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