Marco. Weekend.
This week’s Perks: 1) Impossibly handsome watches from the Stanton Watch Co. 2) 30% off the best damn coffee in the world, delivered. 3) 35% off your new cold-weather armor, a fully canvassed classic tweed jacket. Life is good with Perks...
It’s October. Which happens to be beer stein season. Which means we need you to go ahead and get your beer stein up to code. Here, this handmade, solid-copper number from Jacob Bromwell should do. It’s all old-fashioned and cool-looking, and no two are alike. Stein season.
Robert S. McNamara. Interesting guy—former president of Ford. Secretary of Defense for JFK and LBJ. Nice taste in office chairs. Oh, right. Sotheby’s is auctioning off a bunch of memorabilia from the McNamara White House years. Like chairs. And a Cuban missile crisis paperweight. For your collection... of those.
From now on, Mondays are special. Specifically, every Monday at noon Pacific Standard Time. Because that’s when 10 new tracks by little-known indie bands from around the country will land in your inbox. It’s just a new way to discover music. On Mondays. At a really specific time. Don’t ask.
Baguettes. Macarons. Tartes aux fruits. These are baked goods that chef Thomas Keller is really good at baking. And now he’s going to teach you with his new cookbook. It’s called Bouchon Bakery. It’s available October 23. And you should be there... if only to figure out what tartes aux fruits are.
A solar-powered iPhone charger that you stick to a window. That’s what you’re about to purchase. Partly because you can take it camping, wassail-tasting or anywhere else the sun shines, but mostly because it’s a solar-powered iPhone charger that you stick to a window. And that’s just gravy.
