It Used To Be A Religious Sacrament!

The most popular link last time was this handy printable calendar, with with Lena Dunham on her mum's style second.

1. There have been many Heated Rivalry takes. This one — The Truth About Yearning – is the best one I have read. I haven't watched the show yet, because I'm saving it up for the next time I have to take to my bed with a lurgy, but I have enjoyed surveying the discourse.
2. This was an interesting, if somewhat singular, discussion of "how to make a lot of money as an author even if you're not an NYT bestseller". I applaud anyone who shares finances transparently like this, and I thought the writer did a good job of acknowledging the combination of luck and effort that this involves.
3. A fun little browser game that is supposed to help you with playing the piano by ear.
4. A debunking of some major literary conspiracy theories, including the one about how Francis Bacon wrote the plays of Shakespeare and — new one to me — that the KGB secretly assassinated Albert Camus.
5. An introduction to the work of Pauline Baynes, who did the original illustrations for the Narnia books.
6. A collection of thoughts about enjoying January: "This is what having a personality is all about. You get to be illogical about things. It’s nice."
7. On the origins of the breakfast waffle (it used to be a religious sacrament!).
8. A poem about procrastinating while writing a poem: "The Poem You’ve Been Waiting For" by Jay Délise.
9. Chappell Roan and Lucy Dacus singing one of the best songs ever written, "The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields.
10. The Hairpin now has a proper online archive!
11. A regularly updated curated selection of weird articles, mostly from Wikipedia.
12. The answer to the question "what if M.C. Escher made browser games".
13. Please enjoy this footage of a man called Gerald unveiling a very long parsnip that he has grown inside an old drainpipe.