Trying out a new format in 2025. Opening new drawers in the ol' cabinet, if you will. Some writers I enjoy often employ a solid listicle and I get it. I like it. I'm gonna try it, too. So, twice monthly (15th and 30th-ish, or, you know, about every two weeks) I'll give you five things from my Curio Cabinet to maybe think about putting into yours. Sound fun? Let's do this.
1. Fave Substack: Elizabeth McCracken who writes Release McCracken. Many posts are about swimming at the local watering hole in Austin, TX, but in a way that makes me really want to be her swimming pal. Very soothing. On a tangential note, I just Googled "Release McCracken" to insert the hyperlink up there and lo: you asketh and Google provideth. There is a 5 year old Thoroughbred racehorse also named Release McCracken. I hope Elizabeth knows this. Maybe I should reach out and let her know. Somehow I think she would enjoy it.
2. Fave Lyricist: Hozier – OK hear me out. Forget the voice. The man is one of the best lyricists of our time. I cannot stop listening to “Eat Your Young” on his album Unreal Unearth. The song is based on the satirical pamphlet titled "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift in ye olde 1729. Listen, read it, repeat.
3. Fave board game: Viticulture. It’s chill. You make wine, build up your vineyard. No one dies. There are no battles. There is no violence. It's complicated enough to sink your teeth into, but not so complicated as to have a damn phonebook (remember those?) as a manual that makes you question your life choices as to what you define as “fun.”
4. Fave geophysical concept: oceanic point of inaccessibility AKA Point Nemo. I read about this recently from the Nov 2024 issue of The Atlantic. Not all of their articles are depressing.
Fave creepy snowmen: We got some snow here in Maryland last week. And it won't. Go. Away. Good timing then for the Public Domain Review to highlight ye olde photographs of snowmen of yore. Maybe don't look through these alone at night. Some of them make you wonder: did people back then even know what humans looked like?
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