At 5 PM Saturday, March 21, Governor J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 Executive Order No. 8, aka the Stay at Home order, took effect. Here’s a daily-ish journal of how Reader staff, our friends, family—and our pets—are spending our time.
Day 39: April 28
What we’re reading:
- The National Team:
The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer by Caitlin Murray
(We’re going to have to get in touch with a local
bookstore to order the updated and expanded paperback edition which carries the story through last year’s World Cup victory.)
What we’re watching:
- The Magicians seasons one through four on Netflix
- The English Game (Netflix series)
- Queen Rock Montreal & Live Aid
What we’re listening to:
- Medicine live at Lounge Ax on January 30, 1993
- Choirs doing indie-pop covers—notably The Chorus doing Camera Obscura’s “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken”
in Victoria, BC in 2018 and the Coastal Sound Youth Choir
performing the New Pornographers’s “Letter
From an Occupant” in Vancouver in 2015 - 97X – Rumblings from the Big Bush podcast about the cult-legendary
southwest Ohio radio station (1983-2004) and webstream (RIP 2010)
What we’re cooking:
What we’re drinking:
- Yunomi cocktail made with 2 oz. Quincy
Street Distillery Laughton Bros. 3-year-old Illinois Straight Bourbon Whiskey, ½ oz. Jo Snow Cardamom Rose Water syrup, ¼ oz.
cherry juice (for Luxardo Maraschino), and ½ oz. lemon juice; shaken with ice, served on the rocks
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