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Welcome, Polar Vortex, you are very, very cold. Even though it is not as remotely cold as some places in the province.
Thankfully, I made certain to run my errands yesterday so that I could hibernate today.
Who else feels like they are watching themselves live their life from the outside because the world is so surreal right now, that you have mentally had to separate yourself?
It’s messed up.
In yesterday’s Almost Minimal capsule post I talked about my newest fixation on baseball tees, and the one that I owned, which I also included in the post.
I actually wore it yesterday, although I didn’t post it until today, so if you want to know what it looks like, you can see it here.
It is a linen and cotton blend, which will be good for when the weather turns hotter.
My new fixation tonight is this shrug, which looks almost identical in style and colour to the one that my mother knit for me in 1998/1999.
I really like it.
Today I was feeling slightly more energetic than usual, and I thought, “great, getting stuff done today will be easier”, but now I am struggling and want to crash, so I am going to sign off.
But before I go, did you see that the 90s iconic Body Shop scent Dewberry is back?…well, almost back.
In a couple of days, they are releasing a whole line of various products with that scent.
I hope they go full nostalgia and bring back the t-shirts, too.
Weekly Reads and Some Videos:
Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives. The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account
‘Are we not good enough?’ Girls football team win tiny plastic cup as boys get full-size trophy. I’m so tired of this bullshit. So. Damn. Tired.
A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the Horse plush toy and it became a surprise hit. The ‘Cry-Cry Horse’, is the perfect mascot for 2026.
‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?
How To Help if You Are Outside Minnesota
The world is in water bankruptcy, UN scientists report – here’s what that means
In 1983 Steve Dyer created the Usenet group soc.motss, possibly the first-ever online LGBT community.
Sesame Street Full Episodes | Classics on Youtube
Why Gen Z Is Trading Night Clubs for Japanese-Style Listening Bars
Veronika, the back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess the intelligence of cows.
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