Elise

I am having a comically terrible start to the new year. I like to pay some mind to traditional superstitions but desperately need the events of today NOT to set the tone for the year like the least worst thing that has happened was that I broke a bowl filled with curry so. xīn nián kuài lè i guess🧧🐍

prompt for virtual show & tell at work this week was share a gift you received that was really meaningful to you. almost all of the gifts I thought of were things I had picked out for myself & it made me so sad about how online shopping & the internet at large have ruined gift giving culture im emo

A union saved Nutcracker season. Alameda County's major BDS move. Thank a union for Nutcracker season. My qualms with a new library. Big month for John Waters. My zine fest recap. And a little more.

Alameda County’s $32M BDS divestment, thank a union for Nutcracker season, my qualms with a new library, big month John Waters, my zine fest recap, and still some. open.substack.com/pub/timesnew...

When this is supposed to be an ugly, dated dress, but Marisa Tomei is wearing it so it actually looks chic af

Things ending, beginning, and going on. Rasa Caffe needs $50k. Bartavevlle redux. A decade of Lower Grand Radio. Blackbird Spyplane at City Arts? A movie starring SF's heartthrob. And some opps...

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finally finishing the sopranos after like a year and realizing how messed up it is that glee stole the glory for usage of “don’t stop believing”

It was naive of me to think maybe taylor hadn’t broken my top 5 this year

Berkeley-ass bookstore

There's a lot going on this weekend. Local arts markets. Coffee fundraiser for Gaza. A Vietnamese New Wave documentary. SF's latest new crit publication. Plus, a Bay Area woman wins Model of the Year. And somehow, even more.

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the elbow choreography in wicked is an ode to every dancer or theater kid who took a movement improv class where the instructor said, “try to use other parts of your body… your pinky, your nose, maybe your elbow…?” and so for that the elphaba/glinda dance scene is sacred

cheesecake with cranberry curd and sugared cranberries. sorry but once again I do not care about the messy plating

me but with literal tea that I then gift to her

what is being a local if not having a healthy reverence for the mundane?? (lowkey this is a real question.)

In my biggest movie watching streak all year and Letterboxd is down??? Fell to my knees!! Just trying to be annoying in peace

Been playing Pokémon crystal for the first time since I was like 7 and lowkey gen 2 to gen 3 was the best quality of life improvement the series ever had

!!! Surely there were problems with the way fusion food was framed in the 2010s, but is this actually better??

And then also to your point the inherent contradiction of sometimes liking the collab but not the individual collaborators

I think I’m just not big on how she is marketing herself as an individual (truly just personal taste). The cited works of pop musicians she’s collaborated with are so produced and have so many other tastemakers involved, I’m not confident that the parts of it I like are hers if that makes sense?

Ngl I love that SJ is always tapped for the Bay Area date with nerd shit like this. Validates the people and culture I grew up with

I actually am a fan of Diet Pepsi! Not really referring to Addison in particular so much as Lexee’s work (mostly from what I gleaned on a perusal of her ig) I feel this may be a case of you being a Nylon girl and me being a Teen Vogue girl. The same barrier that prevents me going all in on Lana

I am trying to see what you see but it’s not for me so far (which is weird bc you knowwww how much I love twigs’ creative direction/choreo). I see the potential though so I will keep tabs

Watching the quirky maximalist home designers decorate for Xmas is radicalizing me against this style of home decor like the color palettes are so whacko. Like girl I wanted you to have fun and enjoy color too! But the modern farmhouse girlies are taking the holidays!!!

all i want to do lately is enjoy art it’s the only thing that makes sense to me right now

There is peace in knowing that Ghirardelli box brownie mix is always going to be the best and letting it be the one baked good I will never want to try to make from scratch

Pretty obsessed with the branding on the new hot pot place and its juxtaposition with the crunchy granola local institution

it's hamtaro time! 🐹🌻
#pixelart #aseprite

probably something to be said about how sinosphere “from scratch/slow lifestyle” female content creators like li ziqi who find crossover audience in the US almost never position themselves in any meaningful way to a man or children in contrast to nara smith/ballerina farm type creators in the US