We’ve officially made it to the part of summer where my diet is 90% tomatoes. Sungold spaghetti, tomato peach salads, cold noodles in tomato broth, BLTs, tomato-mayo sandwiches, tomato tarts—if it involves a tomato, I’m eating it. A friend recently introduced me to Knorr’s Tomato Bouillon with Chicken Flavor powder and let me tell you: it is a stupendous feat of food science engineering and the perfect gift for any tomato-head in your life. It’s excellent sprinkled atop a fresh sliced tomato in lieu of salt, but especially mouth-watering when mixed in with mayo on your favorite tomato sandwich. If you had asked me last week if there was anything better in this world than a perfectly ripe, peak-season tomato, I would have said no, but now I’d tell you to dust some of this Bouillon on one and taste the sublime.
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My favorite new way to consume one of these little guys: a single packet dumped in my Owala bottle full of water and nursed over the course of a beach afternoon for the mildest, mellowest high.
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I know absolutely nothing about this forthcoming design publication other than what you see on their Instagram profile, but I’m very much looking forward to their first issue, which comes out September 9th. If I had even one hair of additional bandwidth, I’d definitely pitch a story for issue two, the theme of which is “NO THOUGHTS, ONLY VIBES,” and promises to explore “emotional interiors and incoherence as method.” Give them a follow (and/or pitch them, if you’ve got something) and let’s all see what magic comes from it.
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I’m sorry for missing last week’s 30th anniversary of Kids, the seminal film written by Harmony Korine, directed by Larry Clark, and starring Chloe Sevigny. I remember vividly the summer it came out: I had just turned 12 and was already experimenting, in my own suburban way, with all the things my mother told me I wasn’t allowed to do. My best friend and I watched it on VHS, sprawled out in her family’s basement, long after her parents had gone to bed. If you’re at all interested in revisiting it, I’d suggest reading Lila Lee-Morrison’s feature for Artforum on the months she spent filming the movie while living with Sevigny in a Second Avenue apartment subleased from the costume director. The pictures alone are worth it.
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