sometimes you just wanna feel like a kid at a birthday party - but sometimes a fancy ✨ ice creamery will make like, a london fog flavored ice cream cake or something, and then you get to feel like a kid at a really refined 🎩 birthday party
(honorable mentions to tiramisu, new york cheesecake - specifically from ferrara, mamma mia that cake is amore 🤌🏼)
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not me having the same ice cream order since i was 7. there's something special about the last bite of a soggy styrofoam cake cone.
Jul 16, 2024
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the Gelato shop at the bottom of our street sells authentic artisanal Italian gelato and it FUCKS. I dream of the pistachio. And always with a cone, ordering a cup to me is the death of childhood whimsy.
Jul 15, 2024
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grow up, it’s delicious
see also: pistachio
May 23, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024