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I use an app called Lose It to track calories, and I have cottage cheese with lunch nearly every day. I bought a different brand than usual recently, and Lose It lists it as “cootage cheese.” This amuses me to an unreasonable degree.
Cootage cheese.
One day when I was in the third grade, our music teacher, Mrs. Lafayette, had the class compose a song together. Words and music. It was only about 10 seconds and it went like this:
“Early in the morning
Standing by the road
I jumped when I saw a little toad.”
(Then two more lines here with the same beats as the first two. I don’t remember those lines now.)
“Then I caught him nibbling at my sock.”
55 years later, sometimes I catch myself singing that stupid song, inaudibly, under my breath.
Links and ephemera Thursday 7.31.2025
Do These Genes Make My Ad Look Racist? nytimes.com. When, if ever, do terms that have been associated with racism lose their racist connotations? By John McWhorter.
“It’s spring, which means it’s ruffed grouse season, which means I wake up every morning to a tiny feathered Harley Davidson revving up outside” tumblr.com
Veronica is sick and tired of Archie quoting Jordan PetersonÂ
