Thank you to everyone who emailed me to let me know that the images in our SBTB Daily email newsletter weren’t loading this week!

Those were some very bare newsletters. YIKES.

I’m honestly baffled and we’re working on it.

This post is both to let y’all know, and also to test the newsletter images in tomorrow’s edition.

I have to add another image to this post so I’m typing more words – scintillating behind the scenes content here, huh?

So here are some things I’m really enjoying, and please feel free to rec yours in the comments:

• Big Freedia has a gospel album and it’s INCREDIBLE. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, you might remember hearing Big Freedia on Break My Soul by Beyonce, and Raising Hell by Kesha. Big Freedia’s gospel album, Pressing Onward, was released earlier this month and I heard an interview on The Sam Sanders Show from 8/8 while catching up on podcasts this week.
• Speaking of The Sam Sanders Show, the 8/22 episode about friendship in pop culture with Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays of the podcast “Text Me Back” is a banger right from the top. I rewound (skipped backwards?) twice to re-listen to things they said.
• I started The Thursday Murder Club adaptation on Netflix last night, and am watching it like a series even though it’s a movie. Better for my brain and bedtime, honestly. So far I’m extremely charmed by the nonstop “Hey! It’s Every British Actor Ever and Then Some!” casting, and the visible budget that was spent on this show. It is Well Funded in every respect, and I love what the set designers and production are doing with color to add nuance to the characters.
• I’m working on a theory that weed-infused seltzers are 38% more burp-inducing than regular-degular seltzers. Research continues into this important matter.
• Oh and a most jubilant Happy Great British Bake Off premiere week, y’all!

I’m going to be pinning this post to keep it at the top for RSS purposes so I can test what’s going on over the next few days. Thank you for your understanding and your help!

RSS is so annoying sometimes.