Just Good Shit: 02.23.20
Image: Kiyana Salkeld / Just Good Shit
Hi! Here’s what I was up to this week…
On the blog
Editing
Reading
This week, I read You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, which I…did not love! I definitely learned some new things from it, but I really struggled to get through it. There were several instances where the author didn’t fully define relevant/important references, so I didn’t understand what was going on. There were also a lot of sentences that were were really hard to parse (even though the language was fairly casual), and could have been written/edited differently. It’s one to get from the library, IMO. (And/or just read the excellent Destiny of the Republic instead!!)
Also:
The Golden Age of White Collar Crime, The Highline / HuffPost.
6 People Describe Being Stopped and Frisked When Bloomberg Was Mayor of NYC, VICE.
Why Are Workers Struggling? Because Labor Law Is Broken, The New York Times.
The Princess, the Plantfluencers, and the Pink Congo Scam, Wired.
This Brand is Late Capitalism, The Baffler.
Announcement: Saturday Spirals Are the New Sunday Scaries, Man Repeller.
I Tried Not to Cum While Playing the Adult Games Advertised on Pornhub, VICE.
Always Buy Lemons, Lifehacker.
Cooking
I made Lindsay Hunt’s from-scratch chicken broth and chicken noodle soup this week; it’s really good. One note: the noodles absorb ALL the broth so it doesn’t make for great leftovers; if you’re not feeding a lot of people, you should probably make the full batch of broth, but then halve the the main recipe or make it in two batches on two different days so you can eat it immediately. But it was very good and I want to try the ramen recipe next.
Book stuff
My publisher is doing an Art of Showing Up giveaway on Goodreads! It runs until March 4, 2020, and anyone with a Goodreads account is eligible. You can enter here.
Have a great Sunday! ☀️
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