Hey Rats!!
Kicking off Week 59 with a PSA: it might be time to retire those 'standing only' jeans you refuse to part with. Suki Waterhouse literally gave herself a hernia from wearing pants that were too tight.
Consider this full permission to unbutton that top button on your jeans after you demolish an entire basket of chips by yourself at the local Mexican restaurant.
🦸🏻 I reluctantly saw the new Superman movie Friday night - and holy shit, DC finally made something good (at least since the Christian Bale Batman movies)! Minimal cringe, maximum smoke show superman, and a great storyline.
SWOON (image via Warner Bros.)
☣️ Hall of Shame: David Bars. These are all over the internet. In the pursuit of gains and trying to hit a daily protein goal, I ordered a variety pack of them, wooed by their promise of insanely high protein (28 grams!!). Alas, the protein count was real, but it was too good to be true. I hated the taste and texture. I didn’t expect it to taste like a Snickers bar, but I thought they’d be better than compacted sand from a public beach.
If you’re looking for palatable alternatives, I love GoMacro bars (specifically coconut almond and oatmeal chocolate), and the Smooth Fudger Peanut Butter TruBar.
✨ 2 baller Trader Joe’s finds:
The chocolate strawberry kettle corn is insane. I’m grateful it’s limited edition because I fear I would make it a food group.
Mango tangerine candle - $4 and smells like it’s straight out of Anthropologie
🎧 Rachel Chinouriri's 'All I Have Ever Asked' has me in a chokehold. Laid-back indie vibes, incredible vocals, slightly sad lyrics that somehow make perfect driving music.
Is the 70’s-style conversation pit making a comeback? I LOVE these, but I want one of my friends to have one so I don’t have to actually commit to this design
WNBA players wore "Pay Us What You Owe Us" shirts and alot of men are big mad. The WNBA All-Star players all wore protest shirts during warmups because they're getting pennies- roughly 9.3% of league revenue, while NBA players get ~50% of league revenue. Predictably, men are flooding the internet with "but the league loses money" takes. Here's the thing: Even Dave Portnoy (yes, that Dave Portnoy) admits we don't actually know the real financials because it’s so twisted in with the NBA, but the league is "totally blowing up right now." When the Barstool guy is on the side of women's sports equity, you know something's shifted.
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Poppi agreed to an $8.9 million settlement for false advertising claims. Meaning - those "gut health" benefits were apparently as real as my commitment to drinking 8 glasses of water daily. You can claim up to $16 without receipts and even more if you have them. As potentially Poppi's #1 fan with a folder full of electronic receipts, I'm ready to get $paid$. I mean we all knew those "prebiotics" claims were suspicious, but the drinks taste good enough that we pretended to believe the marketing.
It’s too hot for jeans- a green slip dress that’s been hanging out in my cart for weeks
Swooning over all of the CB2 lamps- I’m not made of money, so mostly just screenshots for thrifting inspo
Janice Dickinson’s memoir- up next on my reading list (it better be gossipy)
Signing off with a large McDonald’s fry,
Kate
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