10 Things We’re Doing Besides Getting 30% off a Bunch of Jewelry!

May 26

erica’s things

Trying to avoid summer-in-the-city feet by scrubbing with this sucker daily.
Becoming a regular reader of The Billfold, the highly entertaining personal-finance site from the smarties behind The Awl and The Hairpin. Try this and this.
Remembering why the Lower East Side restaurant Kuma Inn is just so great: There’s the whole fish, the coconut rice, the rice crepe thing, the weirdly special edamame—and the fact that it’s BYOB.
Winning points from my economist husband for sending him this website that so-adeptly demonstrates that correlation does not imply causation (and sometimes uses Nicolas Cage movies to make its point).
Tearing through The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner—if you’re in the market for a new novel that’s not too beach-ready, I think this should be it.

Obsessing over Wild Child lipstick by ILIA—you won't find a more perfect red for summer, and it somehow looks good on everyone. So, yeah: Basically it’s Essie’s Clambake for your mouth.
Naming a new favorite internet video: The debate teams from two top-notch NYC high schools duke it out re: social media.
Welcoming the arrival of Nespresso’s long-overdue recycling program. Now the only guilt I’ll have associated with this product will be re: my caffeine intake. (Because P.S.? The $$ investment is WAY worth it if you’re replacing a daily Starbucks habit.)
Relating to so many of the stories in this wonderful Leanne Shapton piece on the clothes we inherit from our mothers—I’m never not wearing at least one thing that used to be my mom’s.
Digging the very calm, very hip Nakameguro neighborhood of Tokyo—it kind of feels like Japan’s take on Venice, California. Don’t miss the cafe and shopping at Taste AND Sense. (Yes, I’m writing this from Japan! “10 Things” waits for no honeymoon.)