Treats while we wait for more information
Early voting started yesterday in New York, which means were just over a week from the active part of Election Season ending. We’ll likely then be in the lawyers-only section of elections, followed by the hanging chad (or whatever it’ll be this time around) season. Then maybe all of that will be followed by a second Civil War.
FUN TIMES.
As a distraction, some little bits of culture to keep your mind occupied while waiting.
I’ve spent most of my spring, summer, and fall driving so have lots of podcast suggestions:
“The brain is a mystery, even when it’s lime.” I will listen to anything Dan Taberski puts together but it’s EVEN BETTER when it’s about a case in Leroy, NY, that I had followed when it was first happening. It’s so good.
This Sporkful episode really made me want to eat a salad.
Stuff the British Stole is about what you think it’s about, told from the perspective of an Australian. The Season Three episode on Pocahontas is a rich text.
Lauren Ober has a new podcast out. It’s about her new neighbors and about our recent insurrection. The last episode is perfect.
And while driving, I’ve been dreaming about travel to exotic lands:
“It takes you to places you didn’t know you wanted to go.” I would love to do something like this.
Speaking of places: Iceland really just wants you dead—but you likely won’t die1 if you don’t do dumb shit.
Speaking of Iceland: how about a fiber tour?
Or a trip to Japan to visit with the mascots?
When not driving, I can do more reading:
I’m so confused about this story2 about military fashion.
Zillow, y’all. Zillow.
Mostly, this is a story about a very old sock but it is also a reminder that the history of textiles goes back a long time — and all of these techniques are still in use today.
We just finished up our last night of Things that Go Bump in the Night tours3 at the Farmers’ Museum.4 While we talk about some specific spooky stuff about our buildings, we also touch on graverobbing and how it wasn’t all that uncommon. It’s nice to have this contemporary mystery to back that up.5
Okay, you guys. that’s all I’ve got at the moment.
Go vote.
I mean … we all die eventually. But it’s easier than you might think to not be killed by doing something dumb in Iceland.
For the sake of clarity: it’s not the story itself that’s confusing. I just don’t understand the purpose of these pictures.
aka Ghost Tours
(which will have a new name on Nov. 1, which has caused no end of local uproar)
Also: it was hard to be a teenager in the 1800s but for different reasons.