Because you final heard from me, I’ve made a batch of salsa verde from my backyard, cleaned and arranged my kitchen, made bouquets with these zinnias from my flower patch, spent numerous hours engaged on Floso (my soiled soda enterprise right here in Oregon), and drafted my fantasy soccer workforce.
I’m sorry to say I haven’t learn a single e-book this summer time that I appreciated—however I’m certain one is on the market. Please inform me you’ve learn one thing you simply can’t cease eager about. After which promptly let me know the title within the feedback so it can save you me from this distress.
I’ve found I really like the solar as a lot as the subsequent woman. I really like my backyard, my afternoon salads, my tomato sandwiches, my peach butter on cinnamon toast, my iced espresso. However I received’t go kicking and screaming into fall. No—I really like foggy mornings and nights spent spooning steaming soup greater than something.
I’m saying this since you may see a by way of line in as we speak’s Sunday hyperlinks. This woman is preparing for autumn.
• This week on Substack, I printed a listing of issues I do to get my kitchen prepared for fall: filling glass jars with my selfmade taco seasoning, chili seasoning, and Italian seasoning; organizing and prepping my baking cupboard so I’m prepared when the temper strikes. (Substack)
• The Menendez brothers had a parole listening to this Thursday—a step ahead of their potential launch. BBC covers how popular culture performed a powerful hand in even getting them this far. I discover it fascinating how public opinion usually has its claws within the stability of justice. The identical grip that solidified their unique life sentence now has the potential for a diminished sentence. (BBC)
• My TikTok feed is flooded with youngsters being despatched off to varsity—adorning their new dorms, crying over a Wendy’s meal, lacking residence. However do you know Harvard (and Yale) admissions was once primarily based solely on class, not grades? Incoming freshmen had been even divided by perceived household hierarchies. I do know, I wasn’t shocked both. This text takes us on slightly journey by way of the historical past of those prestigious universities and the weird causes that system ended. (Historical past.com)
• We’re heading into the twenty fourth anniversary of 9/11. Whereas a era who by no means skilled that day is beginning to poke enjoyable at it on the web, it doesn’t sit proper with me—particularly when the dying toll from that occasion remains to be climbing, lots of them first responders and cleanup crews. (ABC)
• As an enormous 49ers fan, I’m a football-loving girlie. I sit up for the season yearly—hoping, praying, that that is the yr we lastly take residence that Lombardi. However at the same time as a fan by way of and thru, I can’t brush over the very actual concern of home violence within the NFL. At occasions it looks like rushing tickets and home violence are handled with the identical severity. ESPN covers the reported arrests for the reason that notorious Ray Rice case (2014) and the modifications the league has made since then. (ESPN)
• Do you will have a consolation present? Mine is cyclical: within the winter it’s Ladies, in the summertime it’s Jersey Shore, within the spring it’s Dawson’s Creek, and naturally—Gilmore Ladies within the fall. It is sensible, I’m a millennial. However a brand new era of ladies are discovering Gilmore Ladies and loving it for a similar causes we do. With all of the topical humor and you-had-to-be-there one-liners, I’m all the time shocked to listen to they find it irresistible simply as a lot as I do. (Vox)
• There’s no true season for self-tanner, however fairly quickly we’ll be lacking our glowing pores and skin. I’ve not too long ago been loving this one from Coco & Eve.
• I’ve already packed away the elements to make Pleasure’s Brown Butter Pumpkin Texas Sheet Cake once more. It’s going to be the very first thing I bake as soon as this warmth wave is gone. I’ve made it just a few occasions since capturing it for the weblog, so you understand it’s simply THAT good. (Pleasure the Baker)
• Keith Lee, the viral TikTok meals reviewer who rose to fame for preserving mom-and-pop eating places afloat along with his 0–10 rankings, simply visited Portland. Having lived there for years (and now simply an hour exterior), I’m not shocked he listed Portland in his prime three meals cities—bumping Houston out of the operating. Sorry, Pleasure! The meals scene right here can also be how Pleasure and I randomly met in the future in a sizzling business kitchen. Blessed! In the event you ever have the prospect to go to, you received’t be disenchanted.
• As an enormous fan of scary motion pictures, Daniel and I went to see Weapons in theaters, and we weren’t disenchanted. Zach Cregger—as soon as a sketch comic—is following within the footsteps of Jordan Peele, mixing horror with humor and making the viewer’s journey extra advanced. The place there as soon as had been low-cost soar scares and low-budget writing, a more recent, deeper style could also be brewing on the planet of horror.
