10 Things We’re Doing Besides Bagging it Up

Jul 15

erica’s things

Ponying up for the Dark Sky app, which delivers rain news you can use: Will water fall from the sky during the next hour and, if so, how hard?
Spending some quality time with this cat rock band video. Yes, there’s a chicken playing a tambourine, too.
Discovering the rare D.I.Y. project that I have the skills to accomplish: the painted-tin-can vase, as spied at the website for The Informal Florist and at my neighborhood floral-slash-skate shop (yes, really) Park Delicatessen.
Appreciating the data-driven, why-aren’t-there-women-in-summer-movies? rant by Amanda Dobbins over at Vulture.
Preordering Vedge, a cookbook from the Philly restaurant of the same name that’s hanging at the very top of my eating to-do list.

Downloading About Herbs, a mobile app created by Memorial Sloan-Kettering that gives you straight talk re: that $30 herbal supplement tempting you from the shelves of Whole Foods.
Tearing my way through Where’d You Go, Bernadette—talk about a perfect beach read.
Marveling at how inescapable family truly is via these photographic mash-ups of relatives.
Hoping Boston eatery Life Alive opens up a branch in NY ASAP—this place achieves that rare combo of very healthy, very delicious, and not crazy-expensive. I am into it.
Fantasizing about living here.