Annual Ash Wednesday Eve PSA: It's not random shmutz on their forehead. It's deliberate shmutz and they know it's there.

Laura Palmer, Veronica Sawyer, Lisa Swallows, Nora Diniro, and I are all the same age, give or take a few months. This pleases me.

Andre Braugher was a lion, a titan, a giant. What a damn loss and I'm so sorry to anyone who loved him.

Factcheck: TRUE.

I am so ridiculously excited for the world to get to meet Joanna Robinson' book this week. It's so brilliant and I'm so proud of her.

Update: The show was last night. Just Nick Cave on a piano and Colin Greenwood on bass and I practically levitated the whole time, it was so transcendent. (I still feel slightly guilty about the 3 minutes, so maybe I should write to The Red Hand Files for advice.)

The best gentleman toad?

'Stop Making Sense' is the greatest workout video of all time.

Also from yesterday's readings of yore: 'A worn-out rake has no business to marry, since marriage is not a hospital for the treatment of disease, or a reformatory institution for moral lepers.'

Brief Interviews With People Who Swing Their Closed, Full-Sized Umbrellas Horizontally While They Walk Through Crowded Spaces

I had salad feelings again.

I adore Ray Isle and I'd be so very thrilled if you'd listen to our conversation and even the rest of the Tinfoil Swans season.

It's alive! I got a chance to speak with my idol, Madhur Jaffrey. I'm usually not rattled by celebrities, but she means so much to me and she was so gracious. I'd be grateful if you listen (and leave stars, reviews, etc. so we get another season). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mad…

My interview with Madhur Jaffrey comes out at 4 a.m. and I remain fully gobsmacked that I got to speak with this legend. There's no one in the world more responsible for my love of food and I told her that and aaaggghhh I geeked out. It'll show up here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tin…

Sometimes I think about how in my dating days, gents' ads were often about 'Looking for a girl to call me on my bullshit.' But maybe they could have considered having less bullshit in the first place and not tasked imagined paramours with so much fixing? Does this still happen?

I want to take every other line from this Margaret Eby and Lyz Lenz interview and turn it into a cross-stitch, poster, tote bag, or tattoo. (I don't wear t-shirts or I would do that, too.) lyz.substack.com/p/we-get-to-ha…

This is a glorious conversation.

I had the delight of asking a bunch of brilliant bartenders about their favorite fictional bartenders. The most frequently-mentioned one (not in this pic) is who you might expect, but I'm curious about who yours might be. foodandwine.com/real-life-bart…