CAKE FOR BREAKFAST: oversharing is caring
Hey, hi, hello! It's me! Mia! From the worldwide web! I have been told that maybe I'm sharing a bit too much personal information in this newsletter which...you're welcome. I long to know everyone's nasty lil secrets. I want to know who is switching to what meds—yes, I just changed from Lexapro to Wellbutrin, thank you for noticing—who is proud of a big burp they did earlier today, which pimple creams are clearing your bacne. I am bad at keeping my own secrets if only because I don't want anyone to feel left out of the Very Fun Party that is My Bad Brain. Anyway, let's eat.
SOMETHING I ATE WITH MY MOUTH You know what I forgot is so, so good? Cheese pizza. I am usually one to load up my pizza with every vegetable imaginable, too many seasonings, and more olives than should be humanly allowed. (Olives are good to me! Do not yuck my yum! I am sensitive and cannot handle the feedback!!!) But last night, I ate a slice of just straight-up cheese pizza and you know what? It slaps. It's such a beautifully simple thing—a marriage of carb, tomato, and gooey mozzarella—and yet it transcends the food pyramid. I got so caught up in my spinaches, my mushrooms, my three different kinds of tomatoes, that I forgot about my old friend, Just Cheese. *very Beyonce voice* How I missed you, my love.
SOMETHING I ATE WITH MY EYES A couple nights ago, I wanted to watch something soothing and unrelated to anything at all. So, I watched the "Molly Tries" Bon Appetit video where my noodle queen Molly Baz makes a new pasta shape. I know Great British Bake Off is usually the visual Xanax people turn to, but Bon Appetit videos are the low stakes drama that soothes my gorgeously anxious ass.
I also recently watched "To All The Boys I've Loved Before 2: The Boys Are Back And Bigger Than Ever." The original was sweet and saccharine and inconsequential and I say that as someone who craves that like candy. The sequel was...fine. It was as sweet, saccharine, and inconsequential as the first but the ending was unsatisfying to me. (#JusticeForJohnAmbrose) It pairs well with eating Nutella with a spoon and taking your first dose of Wellbutrin.
SOMETHING I ATE WITH MY BIG, BIG GALAXY BRAIN Did you know I'm literate? (brag) Here are things I recently read that made me laugh and think and sometimes even both.
Scaachi Koul's review of Salt Bae's new restaurant
An exploration of corporate garbage language by Molly Young. If words like "operationalize", "put a pin in it", and "ask" as a noun give you chills in a bad way, you will eat this piece up.
This really wonderful and thoughtful essay by Sarah Miller on the insidious, pervasive nature of diet culture
SOME THINGS I MADE FOR YOU TO EAT For Bustle, I wrote about Botnet, the social network where everyone loves you. It's like bizarro Twitter or Facebook if you were only friends with bots. Highly recommend downloading it for an hour and then immediately deleting it.
I mentioned this last time, but I'm in the March issue of Men's Journal talking about why hangovers are fine. You can read it online if you hate print media or are too lazy to go to Target.
Have you pre-ordered my book, Weird But Normal? That's a thing you can do! I recommend using Indiebound, but you can see the full list of places here. Also! I'm narrating the audiobook if you want to hear my extremely Midwestern voice. You can preorder on Audible or just, like, Google "Weird But Normal audiobook." I promise to read it aloud very good.
Babe? Hey, babe? Stay hungry, okay, babe?
Mia
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