friday five: april 3rd, 2020 🍹

t h o u g h t s & m u s i n g s

howdy friends and happy friday! 🤠

ooh this actually snuck up on me...this week went by super quickly. i’m excited about this newsletter club and even more excited that i have a reason to write “friday fives” again. here’s what i’ve been up to:

five things i loved this week:

• quick pasta and chickpeas, smitten kitchen (i’ve made this a handful of times; it’s easy, it has like five ingredients, and it’s delicious every single time)

• tiger king on netflix (kevin and i watched the whole season this week and literally what...the actual fuck? this may be the craziest thing i’ve ever watched, and i think the thing that makes it so powerful is the storytelling—the use of unreliable narration and the way the filmmakers framed it is just...excellent. everyone starts out quirky but relatively harmless and ends up being absolutely insane. also, this guy’s take 👏)

• v grateful for my blueland cleaning products that i ordered when i first moved into my new apartment; the tablet formulation is calming my anxiety at everything being sold out in stores

• this little cartoon about filling extra time from the wonderful chanel miller that i got from one of my favorite newsletters, girls’ night in (if you haven’t read know my name, it should be at the very top of your reading list; she’s an incredible storyteller and her instagram is full of these cute little doodles!)

• tiktok content that made me smile: this group of birds, holding mouses, this lady’s militant but oddly soothing cooking tutorials, why do i feel like this, this priyanka chopra imitation, any tiktoks using this effect, 9 to 5, broccoli wokly (share your tiktok handles if you have it; i don’t have an account but i’m on the app constantly)

five things i read this week:

• an oral history of a socially distanced wedding, the cut

• the contrarian coronavirus theory that informed the trump administration, the new yorker (extremely well-reported in that it makes me absolutely furious)

• french fries: a world-famous finger food, quartz obsession

• domestic cozy: 1, ribbonfarm (qotd: “unsurprisingly, it takes its cues from the marginal shadow behaviors of premium mediocrity. It finds its best expression in privacy, among friends, rather than in public, among strangers. it prioritizes the needs of the actor rather than the expectations of the spectator.”)

• i’m the drinks editor at ba and, yes, my favorite beverage is diet coke, bon appetit (greatly enjoyed this as a recovering diet coke addict and as someone who is tired of people telling me how unhealthy it is—i know it’s terrible but i don’t drink it for my health!!)