My favourite part about travelling is returning home.
There's something about the familiarity, sameness, comforts and routine that I sadly miss when I'm away for more than a day or two.
Returning home isn't all roses.
I'm reminded how much my hometown fails to live up to its potential and falls short in many ways to make the city a safe and habitable place for its residents.
I truly believe that a person needs to love the place they live and support it in all of the ways they can. With that said, the same person cannot live with their head in the sand and refuse to recognize how far behind their hometown is in building a livable and world class environment.
I wish there was a monopoly on messaging apps, or at least that a standard existed for txt/sms messaging.
It infuriates me that every group of people I interact with chooses some other app/platform to communicate.
I need another app like I need another hole in my head.
I’m very tired of looking at screens all day every day.
The only solution?
Buy a used CD player and a bunch of 99cent CDs.
There’s logic in this decision, I’m certain of it.
Also, I doubled down on my “no buying new books ever again” lifestyle and visited my indie book shop today.
This is the most infuriating design for a coffee cup lid. The person who designed this clearly has never drank a hot beverage through it.
Is a 🌭 a 🥪? (or a 🌮)
Annie’s post from yesterday, titled Do you have questions about tacos?, wherein she highlights a small informative zine about tacos she created to help answer all of your pressing questions, made me immediately think about The Sword And the Sandwich, a newsletter “about the dismal state of American politics, the far right, and .... sandwiches.”
Specifically, Annie’s offering made me think about Notable Sandwiches #89: Hot Dog where the author takes an academic look at the true nature(s) of a hot dog in trying to answer the question— Is a hotdog a sandwich?.
I shared this issue last year amongst a group of friends I do breakfast with monthly, where we gather to discuss some topic in current social, political, and economic discourse and attempt to solve it from your privileged, white, male, upper class perspectives in under an hour. Most of us are liberals at heart, and honestly want to solve these problems, but we don’t know enough collectively to do so, so we mostly eat breakfast.
Back to hot dogs, and tacos.
Responses to my sharing of #89: Hot Dog with this group included:
“These questions are why we need academics--and the internet! Ha.”
“If you need more inspiration to read it, you get to learn about lumpers and splitters!”
“My oldest told me that the big debate at his camp last week was whether a hot dog was a sandwich or a taco. lol”
The results of these responses, the discussion that followed, and the original newsletter are answers to the following questions:
Are tacos sandwiches?
No.
How are hot dogs and tacos related?
They are siblings.
Annie is less concerned with the big and deep questions about tacos (and likely sandwiches, or hot dogs).
This is probably a better the best approach.
