Friday, November 1, 2024

Hello. How's it going out there? I'm on the road again this week, but still making time for you, dear reader. And fortunately I don't report to a billionaire with the power to stop me from posting my little newsletter if he thinks it might hurt his chances of dying on Mars. So here we go.

Item 1: a link

Do you ever wonder about the history of the sewing machine and its complex mechanisms? Wonder no more.

Item 2: a list

10 Carvel Novelty Ice Cream Cakes, Ranked:

(Anthropologists will spend centuries pondering what Carvel’s system is on when to register a trademark or when to include “cake” in the name of the cake.)

Item 3: a media recommendation

Item 4: word of the week

Autochthonous

Funny how the most xenophobic Americans are never autochthonous to the place they're desperately trying to keep others out of, and never volunteer to go back where their own descendants were from.

Item 5: a photograph

See ya!

Thanks for reading. See you after the election, which I predict will go about as well as possible (but will still be an anxiety-filled nightmare for quite a while).