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The food, news, music, books, art, and things I'm consuming, as well as the thoughts consuming my brain.
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Friday Five: September 18, 2026 (opens the original)
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Happy Friday, Consumers. I’m back with the Friday Five, your weekly round-up of cathartic, weird, and joyful bits and bobs from the internet and my weary brain. I'm feeling a (new variation of) malaise with social media as of late: I'm overloaded with content from every direction and have very little desire to engage with most of it. Which makes writing this newsletter hard! But we’re here, and we move. Getting straight into it with a song. Duncan Sheik passed away yesterday, he was only 56. He
Five Songs for a Friday Five (opens the original)
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Consumers, we somehow made it through another week, to another Friday, to yet another weekend. Monday is a bank holiday in the UK, I kind of love how generic the term is compared to all the specific names for American holiday weekends. I’m still torn up about Dolly Parton’s passing, so naturally her presence and flair will permeate today’s Friday Five. I just have music to offer you today! There’s been lots of music on my mind this week. I have listened to this song over 100 times this week: I p
The Higher the Hair... (opens the original)
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My first encounter with Dolly Parton wasn’t directly through her music. It was through a cover from Leila Forouhar, an iconic Iranian singer. Here’s her singing it on Iranian TV in the late seventies — it’s sad, it’s beautiful, it stirring even if you (like me) had never heard the original. This song made it to cassettes and CDs that Iranian mothers kept in heavy rotation, their young kids dozing off or nodding along to it. I loved Dolly’s version even more, discovering it as a teenager and feel
Friday Five: August 21, 2026 (opens the original)
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Hi Consumers! I hope your weeks are winding down in the best possible way, ideally with some late summer produce. I’m back with your Friday Five that’s landing in your inbox on a Saturday because I messed up my scheduling! And I’m here to remind you that you can eat a perfectly ripe tomato like an apple. It’s best done over the kitchen sink with a container of flaky salt nearby to add to each bite. Now let’s get into your weekly roundup of joyful, cathartic bits and bobs: The song of the week is
Friday Five: August 14, 2026 (opens the original)
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Greetings, Consumers.It’s Friday and I’m back with your roundup of joyful, cathartic content from across the cobwebby corners of the digital universe. it’s taking everything in me not to make this whole thing about eclipses and natural phenomena. I really relish in the moments where we all look up, in collective disbelief and awe, and turn into children again. I wish the sky would do something funky just a tiny bit more, still retaining the rarity and mystery of it but giving us another reason t
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