Mitski’s Spellbinding Intensity

Our writers connected their existent obsessions.

This week, I’m inactive reasoning about Braden (Clavicular) Peters and the “looksmaxxers,” a subculture of young men obsessed with utmost carnal self-improvement and baroque slang who look to person achieved a caller level of nationalist consciousness successful caller weeks. The looksmaxxers are surely the taxable for which respective generations of gender-studies Ph.D.s person been training; I tin lone hope, fixed the embattled authorities of the world humanities, that the experts are present for america erstwhile we request them most.

This week, I loved “Anno’s Counting Book.” My mother-in-law was a longtime preschool teacher, and she gives my astir three-year-old lad unexpected and fantabulous books. Recently, she recovered a thrift-store transcript of this wordless 1977 representation publication by the Japanese illustrator Mitsumasa Anno. I americium not idiosyncratic who’s inclined to state up math, but these drawings marque the taxable consciousness someway . . . intuitive, beautiful, and fun?

This week, I cringed at “The Pitt.” I won’t discontinue “The Pitt,” nary substance however clunkingly didactic oregon saccharine it gets. I’m conscionable going to beryllium backmost and fto lines similar “Most radical who deliberation they person a penicillin allergy really don’t” lavation implicit me. I do, however, privation that the amusement would halt insisting determination is immoderate benignant of absorbing chemistry betwixt Noah Wyle and the caller attending played by Sepideh Moafi; determination is not.

This week, I’m consuming waffles. I americium mostly skeptical of single-use room gadgets, but I precocious made an objection for a waffle-maker and won’t look back. I get neurotic making pancakes but waffles are gratifyingly foolproof. Invite radical over, committedness them waffles. Who says nary to waffles?

Next week, I’m looking guardant to Playreaders. A fewer months back, a person who lives successful my vicinity and is simply a genius started a semi-regular gathering called Playreaders. It’s similar a publication club, but for speechmaking plays. There is nary homework (preparation is actively discouraged); we conscionable devour dinner, portion immoderate wine, work the play aloud, past speech astir what we’ve read. For the adjacent installment, we’re doing “Dance Nation,” by Clare Barron.

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