7/11: The Friday Five

otc allies, oui'd, our shot at meeting Jeff Golblum, and more!

Good morning, and happy post-full moon Friday!

I’ve been waking up way too early this week and I’m currently spellsitting for a Capricorn full moon candle working—like babysitting, only way more magical—so of course it’s still dark outside, the birds aren’t yet singing, but the coffee is strong, tasty, and in a mug that sparks joy, and one of my altar candles is calm, clear and crackling, popping and hissing its woodsmoked song.

Can you tell I’ve been reading

Sophie Strand

lately?

Thank you for all of the birthday love on Monday! If you haven’t yet seen my wife and my bald glamour shots, you can sneak a peek and send us some Honeyfund money magic at the link below! But it’s been such a lovely pocket of pleasure amidst a lot of the only way out is through, and Stacey and I are both so grateful!

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ICYMI:

🍯: Contribute to the Cancer Wives’s Birthday Honeyfund!
🌀: 7/7: Taylor Swift and Elon Musk–Modern Day Seeker-Prophets
👻: July 2025: The Monster and The Maker
🎧: Call Your Coven is new! Coven Convo: City Witchery

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THE FRIDAY FIVE 🖐️

Here’s what’s gotten me through this wacky week:

1. Compazine and Peppermint — Recently, a major publication featured an article that I can’t actually find again (help, Internet Hive Mind!), about how of all of the advancements and accessibilities helping patients in our modern age of health and wellness, we still haven’t found a way to make good anti-nausea medications available over-the-counter. Whether you can stomach thinking about it or not (ba-dum-shhhh), nausa is a universal, human experience, and yet we’re fresh out of luck when it comes to treating it without a prescription. Thankfully, I have a prescription for my preferred med, Compazine, and also peppermint has proven a true, herbal ally, working even in chewing gum form! But yeah, friends, don’t get cancer… it sucks! ;)

   

2. Cannabis, bayybeee — I’m not suuuper public about it, but I’m a huge stoner! I hope you, like Chappell Roan, don’t care. Despite being a daily toker for longer than I’d care to admit, I still have a great deal of internalized shame over this habit. (Did my judgment-tinged, stilted sentence-structure-slash-confession give it away?) I even went so far as to tell my wife I was quitting weed during chemo… She laughed in my face and told me it was the worst idea a smart kid like me has ever had. Turns out, she was right! Not only have I not quit, but I’ve leaned in even harder!!! And it’s made a positive difference on my mental and physical health! If you’re here for the recs, our favorite brands are Stiizy, Time Machine, Pure Beauty, Canndescent, and Lowell’s.

   

   Okay, let’s move away from meds…

3. Articles Still on my To-Read List — What Books Are Publishers Betting On Now by Karin Gillespie, ‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel by Hannah Marriott for The Guardian, Checking out Motley Bloom, a curated collective focused on Neurodivergent First living, Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time by Ellen Samuels, and The Triumph and Tragedy of Jayne Mansfield by Joy Press for Vanity Fair. If you’ve read, let me know what you thought, and which one I should read first!

   

   4. The Hope of Becoming America’s Favorite Couple — Hosted by Jeff Goldblum and his wife, there is currently a nationwide contest to crown America’s Favorite Couple, and shower them with a cash prize of $20,000 and a photo spread in Variety. Now, it’s not how I pictured getting into the Hollyweird papers, but as of today, Stacey and I have officially made the Top 20! If you’d like to help us get closer to the prize, you can vote for us by clicking on the button below. You do need Facebook (grrrr….), so no pressure. But also feel free to deploy your mom’s book club if they’re ready and willing!
   

   

   5. MY FRIENDS MY FRIENDS MY BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS — This last one’s a little intangible, but I fucking looooove my friends. They’re kind, smart, generous, caring, gorgeous, hilarious, wise, supportive, and unbelievably considerate. I pinch myself every day to be surrounded by such good eggs! So let this be a sign to reconnect with your nearest and dearest, even if you’ve let the sands of time slip to the bottom of the hourglass without so much as a dm’d Instagram meme. Send that text! Be brave on Venus’s day! I truly hope when you plug back in, you find yourself attached to love and joy!

   

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Happy Friday! Let me know what’s gotten you through your week, and/or if you love any of the things I love! <3

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Until next time, just keep swimming!

xx, bee