20 March 2025
Happy first day of spring. It’s sure been a cold, cold winter but you made it through.
BOO
This happened like two days ago but I NEED to report that while seated right down on celebrity row at a Knick’s Game, Tracy Morgan projectile vomited onto the court, stopping play. Help. 50 Cent posted the incident on IG with the caption “Damn Tracy WTF going on bro.”
It’s grocery stores (as opposed to fast food chains and convenience stores) that are the #1 source of ultraprocessed food in the American diet. Highly processed foods dominate Whole Foods, Walmart, and Target shelves, according to new research.
Forget the inverted yield curve and look around at all the roots: Recession Brunettes (ie women not dying their hair) is the new recession indicator.
No bombshells came out of the newly declassified JFK assassination files. Just what they’d want you to think.
YESS
In a huge win for sad people with excellent taste, NYTimes critics called Andrew Scott’s Vanya ‘HEARTBREAKING’ </3
Polyphenol-rich lees from filipino rice wine called tapuy have been found to have anti-aging properties. If I knew anything I’d get on that shit and become Gen Z/DEI-ified Mathilde Thomas. Asian Caudalie or what ???
LIT
The second Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping is out. It’s about the only District 12 winner before Katniss and Peeta, Haymitch Abernathy.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson tackle government regulation and bureaucracy to rethink American liberalism in their new book Abundance.
MIAM
Nobody is taking their leftovers home anymore.
The Vietnamese/French restaurant Ha’s Snack Bar is NYC’s “most exciting new restaurant.”
Domestic wines are having a moment because of the rowdy little trade war going on, so FLX wines are in the spotlight. NYT recommends a bunch including Barbichette Seneca Lake Cabernet Franc from 2022.
BOP
Wild Pink edit of ‘Good Stuff’ by Bnny
Have a good day ★