The most wonderful time of the year!

J2131.3.1 Girl hacks off her heel to get shoe on.

The part where he talks about the sandwiches his mother would wrap up and throw to him down on the street so he could stay out with his friends, and how hitting the pavement made the tomatoes mush into the bread and taste even better.

Corporal Melvin Kaminsky, 1104th Engineer Combat Group, later Mel Brooks.

ilu, pk

(Subhas from 30 Rock, holding the KJV): Wanting to be Bible is not Bible.

Not to stir up cigarette discourse, but I tried to recapture the old insouciance of smoking and it did not go well. open.substack.com/pub/lacachet...

This book ROCKS, it is almost as good as the Lise Meitner biography.

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Dad has struck again

LOTS of Jane Yolen on sale on Kindle today!

My Dad is trying to help me feel better and he doesn't know how, so he is just sending me pounds and pounds of pastrami from Katz's.

I'm so glad Kathy started writing about cooking so I can stop hitting her up on Instagram every time she posts something wildly delicious-looking that she just whipped up after work.

How have they not made a feature film of LeCarré's The Honourable Schoolboy. How.

This is hardest I've laughed in a long time, also posting the annotated online edition of Ada in case people don't know that this is also Torah and we must learn: www.ada.auckland.ac.nz

SJÄMSÅRA

Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.

Had a fascinating conversation recently with my dermatologist, who used to work at the VA Hospital. “Every war has its own skin afflictions,” she said. She was, of course, at the time, referring to afflictions caused by the enemy.

I am weeping like a child.

how loudly can the subaltern speak? tone policing, violence, and the (un)knowing of working class lifeways - JD Vance, Gender Studies Quarterly, 2026

Horse girls know you're supposed to go easy on the water or you will colic.

Experimenting with making my own granola and have discovered a truly astounding number of ways this can go wrong.

This looks like one of those unity candles annoying people do at their weddings, only delicious instead of annoying.

My weekly round-up is here, featuring mah-jong, shark sauce, and murder: lacachette.substack.com/p/weekly-rou...

Classic bait-and-switch! I’m here all week.

This is satisfying on a Sesame Street crayon factory level

Every time I see a movie with some bland new actress who People or Entertainment Weekly calls "Hollywood's hottest new star," I think, "How much more interesting that part would have been if Beverly D'Angelo had played it. (1991)

Some movies are classics for a reason. Carol Reed's 1949 thriller “The Third Man,” back in theaters in a new 35mm re-release, is one of them.

I am a worrier so I’m always concerned that people are going to start fighting and setting fires and stuff, and then it turns out that people are doing whatever this is

New York City really does have the Mandate of Heaven

Go New York Go

Yolen's Great Alta Saga is monumentally underrated!

I wrote about the Mary, Queen of Scots ballet and a little about what it's like to be left.

I’m on the Metro-North and there are two people with long-haired dachshunds in bags 10 feet away from each other and the two dogs are clearly aware of each others presence but the owners are not

The Mary, Queen of Scots ballet was excellent, but undermined in parts by its own concern for the audience's knowledge. Would have been just fine without the giant neon green finger pointing to Darnley that said DARNLEY, James did not need a shirt that said JAMES, and the video was distracting.

I am going to watch the hell out of that meteorology movie, I’ll tell ya that for free.

can i say something without everyone getting mad

My favorite Anthony Head moment is still his brief cameo as Will’s dad on The Inbetweeners (his daughter was also wonderful as Carly). What a loss!

And if Amy Klobuchar lost the presidency because she angrily ate salad with a comb, you can decide that locking a women in a closet is not cool.

Starting my new adventure in singlehood by asking an attractive man in Delta Skyclub if he would watch my bag while I went and got queso and I think I might just have skipped straight to Liz Lemon-hood.

She was very drunk. Hence, I took a little longer to learn algebra (this was eighth grade), although now I find it very soothing.

My Jewish friends: what books have you got for me on sorrow and suffering?

So far, my favorite thing about having a Substack is when my Dad comments “A+”.

what

I made a round-up of few things I’ve been reading (including @phoebebovy.bsky.social's brilliant new book), contemplating, toasting in my toaster oven, and failing at this week. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I made a round-up of few things I’ve been reading (including @phoebebovy.bsky.social's brilliant new book), contemplating, toasting in my toaster oven, and failing at this week. substack.com/home/post/p-...

PICKLED LIMES

I loved this book.

A really good aged Parmesan, all crumbly and crystallized. Drizzle some olive oil on a toasted bagel with rosemary, salt, and great chunks of it.

Reading Patrick Leigh Fermor’s book about monastic life on the 6 this morning next to a man who was fully operating his phone as a ham radio; is this what it feels like to be stabbed in the psyche?