Perfect Easy Nutty Cookies and Plum Jam, or: Recipes And How Not To Follow Them
It's genuinely hard to pinpoint what's the most Jewish part of me. I'm what one might call the very pinnacle of Ashkenazi Jewery:...
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- Jun 28
- 7 min
Spoiler Alert: Religious Liberty Was Dead The Entire Time
Anyone who's on Twitter has probably encountered the account Dog Rates. It has over 9 million followers and most of the tweets look like...
- Jan 29, 2021
- 8 min
Here's A Recipe For Mango-Lime Meringue Pie Because Everything Sucks
"Wait a minute," you, a reasonable person, might say, "this doesn't look like a 2020 roundup. Isn't it, like, February? Don't you owe us...
- Dec 29, 2020
- 15 min
The Best Children's Books That I (A Professional Book Person) Read in 2020
Time - what is it, really? Where does it go? What does it mean? If I'm supposed to get this plus three other posts done the next two days...
- Nov 27, 2020
- 14 min
The Manly Gift Guide (For Men)
If you've ever had a man you've loved and tried to shop for, you know one thing: gift guides for men are bad. I'm not sure WHY they're so...
- Jan 2, 2020
- 10 min
My Favorite Purchases From 2019
It feels a bit gauche to admit, because it was such a bad year for humanity as a whole, but I had a truly lovely 2019. Pretty much every...
- Dec 29, 2019
- 17 min
The Best Music of 2019
Welcome to post-Christmas but pre-New Year, the time where about 50% of us have to go to work in spite of no work being done, and for a...
- Dec 16, 2019
- 10 min
The 2019 Book Gift Guide (According to Me, a Professional Book Person)
The biggest change for me in 2019 (besides having a fancy new website, obviously) is that I'm a librarian now! I've been working as a...
- Dec 8, 2019
- 2 min
The Wes Anderson Gift Guide for 2019
Way back in Ye Olde Yesteryear of... like two years ago, I didn't have a site, I had a Wordpress blog. On that Wordpress blog, the very...
- Dec 28, 2018
- 15 min
The Top Five Things I Bought in 2018
2018 has been a weird year. I’m not talking geopolitically for the world at large (though I could be talking geopolitically for the world...
- Apr 21, 2018
- 11 min
Stuff I Can’t Live Without
Everyone, I have an exciting announcement: I’ve fallen in love. Not with an actual person, don’t be silly. That would require a human...
- Dec 23, 2017
- 16 min
The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part Three: Everything Else
Don’t look at me like that. I know it’s too late. Do you think I wanted to be finding a proctor for my stats final and then taking it...
- Dec 21, 2017
- 12 min
The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part Two: Books
I’m going to start by saying this – you have every right to be mad at me. Here I was promising you so many holiday gift ideas, and then...
- Dec 6, 2017
- 12 min
The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part One : Food
You have that person in your life. You know the one – you love them and they’re great until it’s their birthday, or the holidays, or your...
- Oct 8, 2016
- 14 min
The Smartest Girl in the Room Runs for President
Because they were boring, I remember very little of high school English classes, and even less of The Great Gatsby. Most of what I...
- Mar 28, 2016
- 3 min
How To Talk To People On Dating Apps (And In Real Life)
Holy shit, you’ve been matched with someone on a dating app! Or maybe it’s a dating site. Maybe you’re using a site that doesn’t have the...
- Sep 18, 2009
- 8 min
Nothing Says Chick-lit Like Filmy Nightgowns and Rape Jokes
Once a year I engage in what I like to refer to as Charlie Bucket-ism. For those of you not familiar with Charlie Bucket because you’re...