Sidebar: New Pope Edition

A New Pope, West Village Girls, A Pantry Tour, and more!

This is my weekly roundup of links and recommendations. If we talked IRL, I’d likely derail our entire conversation with “Sidebar, have you read | watched | listened | deep dived on this?”

This week I wrote about my love for process stories. Always looking for great recs, so let me know in the comments!

Have you watched?

Thank you to my friend Lindsay for sharing this. When this crossed my desk, I had so many questions: why does she go out of her way to say cancel culture is over in a tour of her pantry? Why was it in service of a joke about Lazy Susan’s being named for a Susan who was lazy? Of all the K’s, Khloe is my fave, so this video pains me. Nothing says “I have no idea how much eggs cost and please don’t tell me” like shelves of Perrier on display because “green adds some color and vibrancy in here.” Does this mean they are decorative? Could she not donate these to some gay people? We love seltzer! Also kind of wild that this tour is meant to promote her protein popcorn (?), which she never discusses.

Never felt so called out in my life: