A Thing or Two We’re Doing Besides Sending Love from NY to LA

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Our top Thingies of last year make a showing on the podcast this week. Oh, 2025, why/how are you so hard already? Like most of you, our minds have been on L.A. And, we assume also like most of you, nothing we do or say feels appropriate or enough, but that’s catastrophic disaster for you.

• Letting a jar of kimchi start dinner for me.
   

• Zoning out with the help of synchronized skiing.
   

• Going a little teary over the greatest promposal the world has ever known.
   

• Getting way too much out of a dumb little nutcracker. (Yes, like an actual nutcracker.)
   

• Describing this—a classic in its own right—as the most soothingly perfect mash-up of Elena Ferrante + Sally Rooney + Elizabeth Strout.

  
  

• Sharing a list of GoFundMes for small businesses in L.A.—from hardware stores to pet shops—heroically compiled by the team at Locavore’s Guide.
   

• Finding, unexpectedly, a timely meditation on the value of a home, the things inside of it, and the experience of losing them in The Safekeep.
   

• Predicting that balaclava winter will transition to rain-bonnet spring.
   

• Preparing my inbox for self-inflicted inundation ℅ of this list.
   

• Entering our allowance era.
  
  

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