Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Zelda and Scout, A Final Conversation
Zelda: Shall we start at the beginning? Scout: A very good place to start. Zelda: Let’s go back to the spring of 2014, when we first started having conversations about this project, which at the time was just a vague amorphous thing. I was working as a barista at a cake shop in Chelsea, several…
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Fly Away Hummingbird Cake
If you’re a regular reader, you know that our writing has been…inconsistent lately. There are a lot of reasons why — life stuff, job stuff, busy and overwhelmed and uninspired stuff. We are coming upon the fifth anniversary of this project, five years of recipes and playlists and rants and raves and reflections on what…
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Late Spring Playlist 2019: Rise & Shine
We’re finally getting back into the swing of life after a long, long winter (like seriously long…it was 40 degrees last week). The sun is finally out, it’s warm enough for bare legs and shoulders, and for the first time in her life Zelda is working a daytime job! It’s all very exciting. So inspired…
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Another Opening, Another Show
We talk a lot on here about what it means to be a New Yorker, and if that’s something we’ll ever really call ourselves. I’m still not sure I can claim the mantle, but there are definitely things that are no longer as novel to me as they were when I moved here nearly seven…
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Book Club Booze: April Showers Old Fashioned
As Zelda has written on here before, we here at Zelda and Scout participate in the time-honored tradition of the book club. On a regular basis, we gather our friends together to (ostensibly) discuss our tome of choice, usually over a meal of some kind. Our particular book club meets roughly every six weeks, alternates…
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Required Reading: Volume Thirteen
This post is part of our “Required Reading” series, in which we share some of our favorite tales and tomes of New York and the South — classic and contemporary, fiction and nonfiction, short form and long. These are the stories that open our eyes to other walks of life, that shape who we are,…
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It’s Not Hatewatching If You Don’t Hate It
Friends, I want to tell you a little story about how I found myself a member of Bachelor Nation. Yes, y’all, I spend my Monday nights watching men and women vie for the heart of the chosen bachelor(ette) in a series of increasingly contrived situations — me, who in high school definitely felt superior to…
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Early Spring Playlist 2019: Snow Day
We’re baaaaaack…and we’re sorry. 2019 has gotten off to a slow start for us. We’re balancing this project that we started when we both had part-time jobs with real actual adult lives, full of work stuff and medical stuff and life stuff. So sometimes we need to put things on the back burner. But we…
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You Do You
As the year in which I will turn the big 3-0 enters its second month, I’ve realized something. We talk a lot about how adult responsibilities are trying and we don’t feel totally equipped for them. Something about the millennial disposition makes us not totally able to call ourselves adults. We don’t feel like we’ve…
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In Praise of Seasonal To-Do Lists
A few months ago, I told you all about my New York summer bucket list. I had arrived at the end of June 2018 feeling like I was wasting the sunshine alone in my (admittedly very comfortably air-conditioned) room. And so I made a list of all the warm-weather things I wanted to do in…
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