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I'll be honest, I'm so out of touch with this sort of stuff that I don't think I would have anything new or interesting to contribute.
 
IdleRich

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Migas is a traditional dish in Spanish cuisine. Originally a breakfast dish that made use of leftover bread or tortas. Migas is usually served as a first course for lunch or dinner in restaurants in Spain.
In Extremadura, this dish includes day-old bread soaked in water, garlic, paprika, and olive oil. In Teruel, Aragon, migas includes chorizo and bacon, and is often served with grapes.
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Working my way up to it with this. I think they have a version with bread soaked in wine too... when you think about it French urine is probably pretty much wine.
 
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whyisthisinteresting.substack.com

Why is this interesting? - The Monday Media Diet with Kaitlin Phillips

On writing, hating sentimental Twitter, and amazing female authors
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I read the internet pretty much from 9-5. I read articles by my friends and anything they link to. But I also follow a lot of editors and read whatever work they're pushing. This is technically my full-time job, figuring out who is writing for whom, how well, how long the copy runs, and with what frequency they're turning around stories, and whether or not they're writing with any venom or perceived grievances. I probably have a 100% clickthrough rate with Willy Staley and Bill Wasik at the Times, Rory Satran and Cody Delistraty at WSJ, Durga Chew-Bose and Haley Mlotek at SSENSE, Thessaly La Force at T, Namara Smith at Bookforum, Andrea Whittle at W, Lloyd Wise at Artforum (he also tweets a lot about bird watching, which I enjoy), Ari Brostoff at Jewish Currents. On the horizon: Rahel Aima is going to be editing BXD, a new journal of criticism for BIPOC writers. I'm looking forward to reading it. (Rahel is biased in the best possible way like it's almost as if she hates the art world. Hope she doesn't mind me saying that.)

It's impossible to list the writers whose work I never miss. But...Jay Bulger and Alex Vadukul on New York. Olivia Nuzzi on Washington. Dean Kissick on art. Tiana Reid on people. Natasha Stagg and Harron Walker on life. Dan D'Addario and Doreen St Felix on television. I suppose I'm always waiting for the women that write for the LRB to publish, Helen Dewitt and Sheila Heti most of all. I wish Charlotte Shane and Sarah Nicole Prickett were publishing more—a lot of our best writers are women who don't let us see what they're writing. Yeah, I can't make this list, sorry!
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Sadly, did not make the "Interesting Twitter Accounts" or "Interesting Young Writers" list. Next time!
 
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Meet True Crime Zine Queen Alissa Bennett

Lena Dunham's podcasting partner, former model, and current death-obsessive.
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As a young fashion model with bleached eyebrows, she was locked in Père Lachaise, in Paris, after drinking too much champagne on Chopin’s grave with “two boys, one of whom was later hit by lightning and died.” [...] I should mention that—besides having a rolodex of people who want to talk about dead people—Bennett is whip-thin and translucently white as a ghost. And that her dear friend, the artist Bjarne Melgaard, put a picture of her brushing her teeth on the cover of a book called Alissa Bennett: Laying the Ghost? [...] she’s published an entire series of zines about criminally-minded fuck-ups, many of them now deceased, with the cult avant-garde publisher Frank Haines, a psychonaut from Florida who moonlights under an alter ego anagram of Ted Bundy. This year, she launched The C-Word with Lena Dunham, a podcast that trawls through binders of dead or forgotten women dismissed by society as crazy, cataloging crimes and misdeeds, from murder to merely having once been alive. The opening line of the podcast? “I’m internationally reviled celebrity Lena Dunham, and I’m Alissa Bennett, historian of bad behavior.” Who better to talk about women society hates—from Judy Garland to Johnson and Johnson heiress, Casey Johnson—than a celebrity we all love to hate, and a woman who dedicates her free time to stalking dead people?
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Bennett plays a sympathetic graverobber of sorts, retelling the stories of those who have been subject to the “drive we have to exsanguinate public women.” It might be more accurate to call Bennett a eulogist gone off the rails, in that she addresses the dead directly. She’s written “short devotional texts” personally addressing Michelle Carter (the teen who texted her boyfriend to kill himself), Anna Nicole Smith, Heidi Fleiss (Hollywood madam), and artist Theresa Duncan (“You began attending 9/11 truth movement meetings…people still wonder if we will ever get to read the 27-page legal document you were preparing for your Scientology lawsuit”).
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WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
I’d be more interested in that during our current malaise. Getting over an ex in the time of Covid, theory and practice.

A colleague got shitcanned a week into lockdown. Wasted an entire summer over this lass. Any excuse and he’ll bring her up and all I can hustle are platitudes like “life is a broken heart mate”.
 
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Yawn

WYH, I've heard all this before! This thread is for folks who are interested in young movers and shakers in Brooklyn media culture. I will not apologize!!
 
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WYH shared some very nice resources on Celtic culture and history that I haven't had made time to look at. That's why he's so shady towards me. Deserved shade.
 
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