1. There is a mass of something metallic in an impact crater on the Moon?! Cue the Transformers (or Armageddon) movie jokes.

2. Via Kottke, who was appreciating the manners of Keanu Reeves, I learned about “manner hands” in South Korea, aka not actually touching someone in photos, just hovering your hands above them. Manner hands for everyone!

3. Scanned pages of a French “how to draw animals” book (via Austin Kleon). Who else wants to print some out and just spend an afternoon practicing?

1. The Twitter account that talks about tailoring (I linked to them before) did a long thread about the really egregious choices of Trump and his mob at the state dinner in London.

2. Kimberly Harrington again: Answers to “Is Your Dog Friendly?” Applied to Me

“She’s aggressive toward men wearing hats, men with beards, tall men, big men, men with deep voices, men.”

3. Yes, I found this on Instagram, but I really like the philosophy. Which is why I follow only my best friends, sewing accounts, goat accounts, inspirational saying accounts, and cartoons at this point:

(By Emily Coxhead, who has a delightful account.)

1. “Animated Knots by Grog is the web’s premiere site for learning how to tie knots of any kind.” 10/10, exactly what is promised.

2. There Is Too Much Stuff, about (surprise) too many things to buy, too many things bought, and decision fatigue.

3. Seen on Twitter:

1. Here’s an interview with a “professional brand namer” on how the best brand/product names happen. I have to admire her hustle to break into the industry:

I have a degree in linguistics and classical languages, and I wanted to move to New York and started working retail until I could figure it out. I was working at the JCrew in Rockefeller Center and any time a woman that looked remotely successful came in, I would ask them “What do you do? Do you like it? Do you think I might like it?”

2. Nobody does satire like Kimberly Harrington: “We heard you. And decided to do something else instead.”

What we heard: You would like a woman and/or person of color as the Democratic candidate for President.
Here’s what we’ve done: Given you no fewer than eleven white guys as candidates and two of them are front runners. While we know this isn’t specifically what you requested, we want you to know we did hear you. We listened for sure. And all we ask is that you give these white guys a chance. FYI, it is customary to give them infinite chances. After their infinite chances have run out then we’ll see who else we can dig up for you. Thank you for your patience, which must be super fine-tuned at this point.

1. Did you want to read more about Dr. Bronner’s soap? You can, at Vox. It seems like a good company.

2. How about something written by the Swole Woman (in her day job as a reporter) about Muscle Milk and the rise of protein drinks?

3. I was letting my sleep slip from 8 hours to 7 or even 6.5 the last couple weeks, and wow could I tell a difference (everything was so hard! I was so cranky!). I got 8.5 last night and suddenly the world is a better place. Go to bed early tonight, friends.

1. Via Karen Templer, this is a great piece on the power of sewing (and a beautiful ode to the writer’s mom): How sewing improved my mental health — and restored my professional ambitions

My own sewing practice reflects my mom’s habits and drive. Like her, I press every seam before stitching it to another one. When I get stuck on a project, I call her to discuss ideas. Through her, I have accessed a craft that reminds me of my capacity for trial and error. As I checked off projects, sewing confirmed that if I tackle something a little bit each day, I can progress toward my goal. In a way, my sewing practice offered an analogue to moving forward in my career.

2. I’m feeling this patch from Pretty Bad Co.

1. Via Kottke, I learned about shoudan koudou, or precision synchronized walking, and I think this is a sport that needs to catch on in America.

2. Words from Lisa Congdon that I need to remember:

1. This week I learned about “mummy portraits” and they’re fascinating–understudied and a mix of styles: “As far as scholars can tell, the mummy portraits are the first paintings that depict lifelike, highly individualized subjects and demonstrate a fusion of funerary and artistic traditions between the Greco-Roman and Classical worlds.”

2. On the other end of the cultural spectrum, Bon Appetit has a history of Buca di Beppo, or “How a Lutheran from central Illinois created a genre-defining Italian-American restaurant.”

1. It’s Easter weekend, which will be a hard end to a hard week (Mom was the one in our family with faith; she loved Easter and spring and brunch and getting her adult children something for their “basket”). We’re not celebrating–we decided as a family to take a year off from celebrating anything–but I am making a quiche and listening to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.

2. There is a new collection of Oliver Sacks essays out, including this one on “The Healing Power of Gardens.” If the weather holds, maybe I’ll get some yard work in, too.

1 I have never felt so seen nor so alarmed at being seen than when I read this piece from Danny Ortberg (from the late lamented The Toast): “My Clean Floor” And The Battles You’re Only Aware Of Once You’ve Lost

When did I become The House Noticer? Walk past the fridge, register idly There are thumbprints on the handle. Gotta clean them off. Crumbs in the vegetable drawer, too; someone’s going to have to lift them out with a damp paper towel. And the Pledge gets the dust off the kitchen table but it doesn’t do a thing about the water-glass rings, so someone’s going to have to find out what does that. Are any of the bath mats damp? Wait for the afternoon light to come in the windows so you can see just how not-really-clean all the surfaces really are, giving the lie to the idea that you live in a world filled with order and sense. The house has a secret language all for you, and the last thing in the world it wants is for you to share that language with someone–anyone–else.

2. There’s a roundup of the best “home pants” on Man Repeller. I would argue that the truly best ones are Hudson Pants that you sew out of sweatshirt fleece and savings, but I love that the concept is getting discussed.

3. From McSweeney’s: Things I Wish My Therapist Would Say To Me But She Never Does. Accurate.