SUMMER FRIDAYS DEP'T.: Guilty reading
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 116
Previously, on INDIGNITY
ASK THE SOPHIST
Tom Scocca
The New York Post is basically a version of Elon-era Twitter that comes off on your hands. The Daily News is a shell of what it used to be, and even that shell is a day late with everything that the Post had the day before and was more vibrant about. (I don't even know if there's still a Newsday.) The Times has pretty much gutted its metro coverage, but it still has enough about what is going on in this town in terms of culture, business, and rich people doing idiotic things that I can't get anywhere else. Plus, I am sorry to say, I continue to play Wordle every day.
SEEK SHELTER DEP'T.
Tom Scocca
Four women from Kentucky on a group vacation to Marco Island, Florida, told Gulf Coast NBC that they had gotten matching lightning-bolt tattoos on Sunday after lightning hit a tiki hut above them Saturday and created a ground current that left them stunned. "Like, I went unconscious, and then, when I woke up, like, I had a pounding in my head, like the shock went through my body," one of them said. "I couldn’t hear. I can hardly see. I could barely walk."
POLITICS DEP'T.
Tom Scocca
People wanted to vote for Mamdani. It was palpable. Even as the giants of business and finance heaped money on Cuomo, trying to claim the power to veto the entire notion of a socialist mayor, it seemed hollow. Cuomo himself didn't appear to want the job, certainly not enough to try to win people over and give them something positive to get out and vote for. Mamdani was notionally proposing free bus service and municipal grocery stores, but the people who howled about the damage free buses would do to the MTA budget or the dangers of communist produce missed the point. What Mamdani was running on was the idea of a mayor who would be willing to try making the buses free or setting up new grocery stores, to see if those policies made life in the city cheaper and easier. He was offering to make things different.
COLUMN DEP’T.
JOE MACLEOD
It has been unseasonably warm in the Adirondacks, it’s almost as if the Global Climate is changing, you know? It got so hot one day we turned on the air conditioner in our Adirondack cabin. I am not a big fan of roughing it, OK? I like running water and a flush toilet and electricity and stuff in my Adirondacks! And don’t come at me about my Carbon Debt on account of I am enjoying air conditioning! I voted for windmills and solar power, it’s not my fault it’s hot!
WEATHER REVIEWS
New York City, June 26, 2025
★★★★ The light was gray and steady, and there was no harm in stepping onto the balcony. The teens went out and did things for fun. Bare arms and legs felt genuinely cool. Lights above a stoop cast shadows in the daytime. A real gust of wind came along Broadway and made tablecloths billow down the long row of tables for a community dinner being set up in the cross street. The clouds thinned almost unnoticeably, just enough to make the gold accents at the top of a decorated facade gleam. A disposable towel blew away from where a man was doing work on an upside-down e-bike on a corner. Back home, with the air conditioners finally off, a sudden pattering outside the opened windows announced that despite the forecast, some rain was falling out of the break in the heat after all.
EASY LISTENING DEP'T.
HERE IS THE Indignity Morning Podcast archive!
TOM SCOCCA
SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from Encyclopedia of Cookery; 1001 Recipes, Menus & Rules for Modern, Scientific and Economic Cookery (Vol. 4), by Eugene Christian and Molly Griswold Christian, published by the Corrective Eating Society in 1920, and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICHES
Breast of 1 chicken
12 Spanish olives, chopped
2 cups chopped celery
1 cup mayonnaise
Salt and paprika
Mix all together, and place lettuce leaf on whole wheat bread, fill in with salad filling, put together, trim crust off, cut and serve.
If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, be sure to send a picture to indignity@indignity.net .
SELF-SERVING SELF-PROMOTION DEP'T.
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