This morning’s email from Martha Stewart Industries Amalgamated, Inc. was subject-lined Why You Shouldn’t Use These Cleaning Products Together. I would very much like to reply-all to this email with a few words of my own on Why You Should Review Your Policy On Capitalization In Email Subject Lines, but mostly I just feel insulted. Jesus Christ Martha I know not to mix up a bleach and ammonia cocktail to clean my bathroom. In the email there is also a link to How Often You Should Replace Sponges. The answer is “when it smells bad” but then I’m not Martha Stewart. For all I know there is a 10-point plan to determine when it is time to chuck your Scotch-Brite in the bin.
Some personal news: last night’s dinner was gross! I’m doing a public service when I tell you it was Milk Street’s pork and hominy stew with cilantro and lime, aka posole. I suppose some of what made it gross can be attributed to operator error (it’s possible, though unlikely, that I bought the wrong cut of pork) but I think it is just a bad recipe. Don’t make it! Look up literally any chicken or pork posole verde recipe on the internet and make one of those instead.
Both of the dogs are at daycare today. I am not sure what Puppyfat’s problem was but she was hopping on our other dog’s head as usual by yesterday afternoon. I sent them off to school today with their lunches and associated probiotics and other medications and my god. Nothing makes you feel more That Person™ than taping handwritten instructions to the outside of a dog food can but here we are.
In entertainment news I am all caught up on Insecure. I started watching the first season right when it was released but then I got distracted, probably because life was normal then and I didn’t constantly need stories about fictional attractive people and their problems as a distraction from our nightmare reality. We are almost finished with Mrs. Maisel and after that I think we are going to try The Vast of Night and I will definitely try and get into I May Destroy You.
I have some questions about making television and movies during a pandemic, or actually just one question: Is it possible, depending on how long this goes on and how careful the entertainment industry is, that we…might run out of television? This is of course way down the list of things anyone should actually be worried about, but also, hahaha, just curious, ahem…WILL WE RUN OUT OF TELEVISION???!?!
No no, I know, there is a lot of stuff to watch in the world, particularly if you are willing to overlook the awkward English dubbed over extremely dark Nordic murder mysteries, and of course I have books. But I do wonder!