1/9/2025

The 33 Project

Good morning! We’re back into it, aren’t we? Back to work, back to the grind. I’ve got some updates for this little project, but will be rolling them out slowly over the next few weeks. Thank you to everyone who has read or been a part of this bizarre side quest of mine. I just like sharing stuff!

This was a vegan croissant from Eataly made with Tourlami! Have you gone to any of our Veganuary spots, yet? Please do!

Anyway onto the recs for this week:

1/ Great piece on humor, death, and grief.

Humor, like grief, like poetry, is occasionally a language of dissonance: dissimilar things side by side reflect back on each other some surprise or shared meaning. But there was no apparent meaning in the adjacency of my mourning and erratic, often ill-timed laughter.

Also liked this bit…

What feels true is the wildness of the cumulative. The planes that fall when the sky is clear. Laughing when you are mourning. The process of grieving and dying is often a primal confusion that moves you inevitably toward contradiction. Fixedness and fluidity. Specificity and universality. Terror, magic, and mundanity. Setting out to represent it in all its complexity is a way to honor it, to acknowledge what is gone and what of you is gone with it, to give that loss life by coming with clear eyes to the ways you are changed.

2/ If you’re worried (rightly) about the LA fires, this map has been an incredible resource. I’m not the praying kind, but in these moments I understand why people pray for relief. I hope the fires stop raging soon and that the recovery process isn’t too horrifying.

3/ Hard pivot…these unhinged “fun facts” from the golden globes.

That’s it for this week. Have a good one and stay safe.