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Cheap Nonstick Pans, yes or no?
This is the kind of useful thing America’s Test Kitchen usually keeps behind a paywall or buried in Cook’s Illustrated: whether it’s ok to buy a cheap nonstick pan. The answer is yes, and definitely get rid of your old one as soon as it starts peeling.
They do point out that if you have an expensive one, it probably has a lifetime warranty, which would make the price worth it. I wish I had thought of that when I got rid of my toxically peeling All Clad two months ago.
But you can read the results for yourself right here on their all new internet hang out—the cleverly named Feed. I love the layout and how much content they’ve packed in, including lots of the esoteric that is usually just in Cook’s Illustrated.
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Virtuosos Glut
I loved the flippancy of this headline alongside the poignancy of the photograph. Might be true, but she’s still beautiful. (and, as we later listened via Spotify, very good.)
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things I’m doing
Things I’m doing a lot more of since the baby came:
writing lengthy update emails to my friends, most of them probably inadvertently functioning as birth control for them.
sitting in the park.
video chatting with my family in Michigan:
writing desperate text messages to my fellow new moms.
Reading entire long articles and blog posts that I save in a crazed browsing hurry via InstaPaper and then read one-handed when I’m trapped under a sleeping baby with my Kindle. The Kindle is the best for this. (I’m girlpolish on there if you make an account and want to see what I’m reading.) I <3 the guy who created Instapaper, and need to actually give him some money.
Eating amazing meals dropped off by generous people, some whom I barely know.
Calling friends in the city and making plans to walk the city parks together.
Sounds suspiciously nice, right?
Let’s be clear here: I wasn’t working while I was pregnant. There was no reason for me to not being writing friends, calling family, sitting in the park, except that I was too busy making up fake stuff to do all day. The baby takes everything I’ve got on a regular basis, and builds only a litte bit back in, a teasing amount of encouragement and energy; these tiny moments of connection here and there. And that’s just wiped out all those fake things I used to do.
I wish I could claim no one told me it would be hard, but literally everyone did. Even as you read that, you stopped reading it, because it’s so cliche.
Apparently when that happens, you don’t feel like reading bits of news on Gawker, and Facebook-stalking semi strangers. You want to commiserate, laugh, share, and sigh with other people. Hmm and it’s awfully nice to have things simplified to that.
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Shopping at Target
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Teenage Folk Art
I think the teenage fashion blogger Tavi is a folk art genius.
“I am a big advocate for decorating and writing in books and lending and giving them to people. This one had a nice letter from the person who gave it to me on the inside that I didn’t find for months until I started reading it, which was quite a nice surprise, and I support stickers of any kind on anything. The last time Ella and I did the Ouija board I needed somewhere to write the answers, and I like having them on the inside of the back cover.” –read the whole oogum boogum post here
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this moment
Svpply founder posts a few photos of his boys.
This one made me miss swings, hammocks, yards, and suburbia.
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Something’s Hiding for BHLDN
The makers of joyful frivolarities (letterpress fish, thoughtful bow ties, mustaches on a stick {they did it first}) are doing projects for the well-funded seller of frivolarities BHLDN (if you’re reading this post out loud to your friends, it’s pronounced Beholden).
handcrafted, covered in vintage wallpaper. so pretty. they play “here comes the bride” once wound up. Yes, the 2012 plate kind of makes it seem like a prom gift takeaway, but all sorts of things would be lovely inscribed there.
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I Vote Day Trotters
hmm, yes I did watch the entire extended version of the new video for Best Coast’s Our Deal, directed by Drew Barrymore. warning: tragic.
But it’s worth it for the amazing lipstick ‘n 80s style mishmash and the cameo by Community’s Donald Glover.
Watch a bit more about the fashion right here.
seen first on Nylon
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Reading old Sci-Fi
It’s true that babies sleep occasionally, and give you a chance to do something for (with?) yourself.
For me right now it’s reading this delicious and oddly modern sci-fi from 1956. (that’s pre-Sputnik, of course. Just imagine what they thought of space then.)
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a Magpie’s Trip to the Beach
These work so well. Spacious photos of trinkets gathered on beachcombing wandering in Maine.
I’m always picking up rocks that glinted just so in the sun, coral that aged like wood, or shell fragments that “would make a great necklace.” Then I abandon them by the stairs back to the parking lot, because I know I’ll never do anything with them.
Speaking of beaches, I will post a few more photos of aforementioned trip to Michigan, if only to document that the water there does look exactly like the Caribbean.
Seen on Chance’s Discoveries.
