What’s Rick Lawton Been up to?

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Turkeys are Just Unflattering Peacocks ^ Dads are like the first pet owned by a couple, forced to put on costumes against their will and then sit for photographs, all the while having directions for poses barked at them that they just blindly ignore … [Read more...]

If You Have Read Any of the Below as a Child…

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You Most Likely Binge on Grizzly True Crimes Podcasts While Delicately Examining Lettuce Heads in the Produce Aisle Let me just go on the record as saying that Middle America True Crimes Podcasts are our generation's romcoms: the more meth, misogyny, and harems, the better. Akin to my dad refusing to follow the herds in getting a … [Read more...]

My 2020 Thanksgiving Absentee Ballot

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Because Bringing up Voter Fraud at the Dinner Table Would Do Way More Harm Than Any Virus Could Dear Family, In lieu of Covid and the unavoidable political conversations that will both undoubtedly ravage our family this holiday season, I regret to inform you that I will not be joining in person this year. While I will make a cameo on the … [Read more...]

A Brief Education on Tenement Buildings

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Cue the Obligatory History Section You caught me: yes, I purposely orchestrate my newsletter to have at least one excuse to write about 19th century New York. Trust me, it's better for everyone that it's said here instead of on dates. This month we're tackling a term all New Yorkers know well, but most don't know the story … [Read more...]

The Sole Recipe You Need for Prime Potluck Season

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Sweet Onion Crack Dip: It'll Be the Star of the Show, the First Dish to Be Finished, and Cost You Less Than $20 How every online blog post recipe starts:"When I was a child, on cold winter nights, my mother would gather me and my 12 siblings around the hearth to teach us that the real food was love. My grueling pilgrimage to find the true … [Read more...]