The Weekly Wrap: November 20, 2022

It's been a long week of solo parenting, work, and travel. To quote my daughter, "I don't want to talk right now." 

There's a lot of good stuff in this week's Wrap. Time to just jump to the links.

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• All the Thanksgiving recipes you could possibly want. [The Kitchn]
• I love everything about this. [Culture Study]
• The English language is weird. [Futility Closet]
• Classification and dumplings. [The Syllabus Project]
• The story of what gets left at the Vietnam War Memorial. [Washingtonian]
• The archival problem of Twitter. [MIT Technology Review]
• Don't mess with scientists. [Pluralistic]
• No more meetings! [The Atlantic - may be paywalled]

• Libraries and publishers have always clashed. E-books made it worse. [Planet Money]
• The human consequences of not building enough housing. [The Daily]
• On feminism and the sexy baby voice. [By The Book]
• This festival sounds delightful. [Atlas Obscura]

• Bullet Train can definitely be categorized as a violent movie. I found the direction to be reminiscent of Kill Bill. There are a lot of characters and we get a look at each of their backstories. Much of the narrative is done without words but you can still understand the full story. This film is more about style than plot. Brad Pitt headlines but he's probably the weakest actor in the cast. There are also some delicious cameos. [Amazon Prime]
• A Call to Spy is an average but enjoyable movie. It suffers from all the classic tropes of "based on a true story." The film follows three bad-ass women who were some of the first female spies recruited during World War II. There is nothing shocking about this one, but it's quite well done. [Netflix]

• For my lunch meal prep this week, I made a favorite dish that I haven't put together in awhile. Curried chickpeas and spinach is easy and delicious. You can make it as spicy as you want and I always grate in extra ginger. I enjoy it with naan more than rice but our store was out of naan. I subbed pita and it worked just fine. [Budget Bytes]
• Chorizo sweet potato chili is the ideal meal for a cold Sunday night. We like to let it simmer in our Dutch oven for at least an hour. Highly recommend splurging for good chorizo. We use D'Artagnan's Spanish Style. It's fully cooked and doesn't put out a lot of grease to flavor the onions, but the spice is perfect.  The leftovers of this dish freeze and defrost pretty well. [Budget Bytes]