A Thing or Two We’re Doing Besides Improving Our Pattern-Mixing

Sep 23

We get all our best Gen Z intel from Casey Lewis (you subscribe to After School, right?). This week, we’re getting it straight from her mouth. As the 27-year-olds we know say: galactic slay.

erica’s things

Asking what it would take for this little character to get a whole animated series.
Dressing up tinned sardines.
Breezing through a novelization of the heyday of Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins that reads as satisfyingly as their books.
Changing the color of fire.
Hyping the various perfect spaces at Botanica for your LA party-planning needs.

Watching in awe as my kid falls in love with chess.
Learning that a rather unassuming bottled salad dressing called Garlic Expressions (what a name!) has earned itself a cult following.
Deciding that among the many things to love about Alec Egan’s brain-massaging artwork, the pattern-mixing is what really makes it for me.
Dipping my toes in the Notion waters. I’m cautiously optimistic that it might completely change my life (?), and I welcome tips on its best features.
Sharing Liberty Graphics in case you are in the phase of parenting (or your own life) where every shirt must have a picture on it. (Some favorites: brontosaurus, Sal, strawberries.)