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Hello courageous people and welcome to the eighth edition of the newsletter! ❤️🙏 I would like to say a huuuuuuuge thank you to all of you for supporting the newsletter and subscribing so far, this week we hit the milestone of 150 subscribers (hi Abby! 😉) just 8 weeks after launching and it wouldn’t be possible without you all! 🥳 Next milestone = 200 🚀 Here we come! This week, our featured book is 📚 It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn.

#crimefiction #televison: The Mire: Millennium (2024) The Mire: Millennium is show-runner Jan Holoubek’s long awaited follow up to two splendid series -The Mire ’87, and The Mire ’97. Indeed, The Mire: Millennium is the final part of a trilogy which stands up well on his own but is more greatly appreciated if you are familiar with the previous two seasons. As with those previous two series, a police investigation digs up long-buried dirt on the lives of the inhabitants of small town in Poland.

So this just happened. And if ur too lazy to click… By Tiffany Kary February 12, 2021, 2:54 PM EST A Reddit-fueled mania has sent cannabis soaring and crashing back down in recent days. Leaders of some of the marijuana industry’s biggest companies are now joining a Twitter movement that’s pushing back -- with hashtags. The tag #MSOgang has trended on the social-media platform as supporters seek to differentiate U.S. multistate operators -- or MSOs -- from their peers in Canada.

*Spoilers lie ahead.* “The Incredible Jessica James” beams in purple — prideful, vulnerable, direct, and all deserving of our attention.  “The Incredible Jessica James,” the 2017 Netflix hosted romantic comedy, opens with the lead character, Jessica James — played by Jessica Williams, the youngest correspondent on The Daily Show — speaking rather candidly about her former romantic relationship with a character named Damon, played by LaKeith Stanfield. Directed and written by Jim Strouse, the entire film is a process of scenes through the life of James; from her socially conservative family, her day job as an improv teacher for the youth, intertwined with the struggle to be a successful writer, to her consistent need to distance herself from the patriarchal systems that be.

The last time I wrote music because of something I saw on TV was back in 2021. This is gonna be tricky to share and it truly is a “IYKYK” (if you know, you know) kind of thing because this piece of music was written after watching the penultimate episode 9 of the FX Series Shōgun. Last week made a video that I posted on my Youtube channel (contains no spoilers) about this show and how incredible it is.

Welcome to Home Cooking Diary, a newsletter on my journey as a home cook—the successes and failures alike. Part cooking log, part recipe recommender, and part chronicle of my thoughts as I feed myself and my family. This installment is a bit of an ode to the frittata, accompanied by a recipe. We’re gearing up for a grocery run, and the fridge is getting pretty spare. In truth I planned to shop this morning (yesterday morning by the time you’re reading this) with Tycho but instead of napping he played in his crib for two hours and then began hollering, so I got him up and cobbled together a lunch of chickpeas, leftover pasta, and a bit of tuna salad (even though they say not to give tuna to children under two, I sometimes do).

Last week, we finally managed to kill off all our grass. One of my first pieces for this newsletter was about how much I hate our raggedy, pitted lawn, and about my fantasies of turning it into a meadow—berries and wildflowers intermixed with native shrubs, all low-maintenance and largely edible. We shared my half-baked idea with Tari from Wildscape Gardens, who turned it into a garden plan and a tasklist whose timeline stretches through 2023.

Mike Winger (remember him?). Just to recap, here is what I wrote about him in one of my last posts on the Anxious Bench last Spring: “I only recently learned about Mike Winger. A friend alerted me that he had posted a not-so-flattering discussion of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. I wasn’t terribly surprised by this since Winger earned a ministry degree from Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, an extension campus of Calvary Chapel Bible College which states in its doctrinal statement that men and women were created to “complement and complete each other.

If you know David Berman, you almost certainly know him as a musician and songwriter. And for good reason: the man once wrote, “In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection,” a line that seems to captivate anyone who hears it, even those who use music as background noise. His work with the Silver Jews has a seemingly permanent position in the indie music canon, which is as nebulous and impenetrable as any other; I can’t go more than a day without seeing an outpouring of love and gratitude for the band’s 1998 album American Water somewhere on social media.