Pea soup mukbang

I know the epitome of being cool is not caring about things, but as we start to get more social again in the US, I am finding a distinct pleasure in making so much effort. Overdressing, overthinking, making too many plans, it’s all a delight that we have the privilege to do so after a lonely, stressful, sad year. So if you saw someone dressed in an Italian mourning dress and matching veil and heels at the Food Bazaar, it might have been me.

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Walking into a four-day work week like:

Pigeon Report       

My main interaction with a pigeon this week was, I know no other way to say this, passing by one covered in pigeon shit. Whether it was his own or others, I didn’t bother to ask. I felt so bad I looked away to preserve what little dignity he had left.

Grade: WHAT! I’m sure as hell not drawing a picture of this pigeon.

Ephemera I’m into. Each week I highlight some random historical ephemera I’ve discovered that is probably only interesting to me.

 For those not familiar, mukbang is a genre of video that involves people eating a lot of food, loudly, alone. I mean, I’ve been doing that for years, but no one gave my behavior its own name. Anyways, for years now I’ll periodically find myself watching mukbang videos, mostly because I like to see the weird array of foods people choose to eat. It’s a lot of seafood, and a lot of fried food. So basically, my dream diet. Anyways, I found a particularly strange genre of mukbang around pea soup, and if I must suffer through this, so must you:

The weirdest shit I saw on Craigslist recently

This might be a stupid question but how do you have fun! With! A! Goldfish!?

Shit you really ought to read              

Must start watching some of Si-lan Chen’s choreography. I love Janice!! Enjoy some 19th century shells.