15 April 2025
good morning.
BOO
doctors are alarmed by the rate of brain decline in “long-Covid” patients. apparently, in a recent study, 33% of a sample population older than 65 qualifies for a “very early” Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
sleeping on your stomach can make you more injury-prone and can contribute to chronic pain by flattening and compressing your spine. that sucks, because it’s SOO GOOD.
the LA Times just published truly the most depressing piece about vacation sex, or, more specifically, couples’ lack thereof.
YESS
Gizzi Erskine, the celebrity chef, wrote a thoughtful piece for Grazia about where she’s been (rock bottom) and what’s next.
MONEY
Trump has promised further tariffs on pharma and semiconductors. despite this, European markets opened higher today. yesterday, American markets closed up as well.
X finance bros are freaking out about the S&P 500’s death cross, but they really shouldn’t have their panties in such a twist. a death cross happens when an index’s (or stock’s, or any commodity’s) 50 day moving average drops below its 200 day moving average, reflecting its recent weakness of price. historically, economists point to this inversion as a signal the market is moving into bear market territory. yes, it’s true a death cross preceded the 1929 and 2008 recessions (to name a few). but, it has occurred in advance of simply a 10% drop in an index’s value plenty of times, too.
MIAM
keeping a secret continues to be a lost art, a fact I am reminded of after the NYTimes outed Raf’s as the fashion crowd’s restaurant of choice that TikTok hasn’t yet picked up on.
the content creator Hailee Catalano’s cookbook By Heart is out today. the recipes seems accessible and easy-to-personalize, without lacking character.
LIT
at last: the new Sayaka Murata novel is out today. Vanishing World is translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori and explores a dystopia where a young woman living in a world populated entirely by artificial insemination discovers she was conceived naturally.
SCREENS
I finally finished watching The Pitt. I feel it turned a bit self-righteous in the final episodes, but this is one of my favorite shows of the last year nonetheless. the success of this show, to me, lies in how different it is. it is devoid of glamour, of music, of romance, and instead is.. quiet. there is action, of course. there are acts of heroism, there is a lot of pain, and even some humor. but all of it is quiet. The Pitt, very basically, about the stoicism it can take to survive, and it is exciting to examine that.
BOP
“Tell me I never knew that” by caroline ft. Caroline Polachek.
this evaded my radar for several days, but new Sleigh Bells album, Bunky Becky Birthday Boy, is out. a fact about me is I was an enormous Sleigh Bells fan all through middle school and into high school. so I lost my mind when Alexis Krauss, their lead singer, randomly chaperoned a Harriman camping trip I went on in the ninth or tenth grade. she was truly the coolest person I knew of, and based on her recent Perfectly Imperfect profile, she continues to be just as awesome.
in other late music news, The Dare tried to crowdsurf and despite being lighter than the teenage girls in the audience he was jumping onto he did not get caught. I did not expect to laugh the way I did at the video.
have a nice day ★
