37

Here are three things I loved this week:

The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast

And folks is smoking anything that’ll burn

Some people wrap their lives around a cocktail glass

And you sit wondering

where you’re going to turn.

I got it.

Come. And be my baby.

Some prophets say the world is gonna end tomorrow

But others say we’ve got a week or two

The paper is full of every kind of blooming horror

And you sit wondering

what you’re gonna do.

I got it.

Come. And be my baby.

You know when you go to a really good dinner party, and you get deep into some sort of silly debate or conversation with people who are at once really smart and curious but don’t take themselves or anything they’re talking about too seriously? That’s what listening to No Such Thing feels like.

I’m always wary of a podcast that’s some dudes hanging out and shooting the shit with microphones, but listening to No Such Thing feels like a soothing balm. In each episode, these three friends dive into a debate–some silly, some serious–and do some pretty solid investigative reporting to settle the debate. Topics have included “Could you land a plane in an emergency?”, “Why are TSA Rules so confusing?”, and “Could you get away with murder?”

If you like How to with John Wilson or anything Nathan Fielder does, you gotta watch Neighbors. Each episode explores feuds between neighbors.

It’s sort of ugly and dark. It’s completely fascinating both in subject and style. I struggle to describe it, so here’s a quote from a review in the New York Times:

“Neighbors” has a bad tendency to gawk at its subjects; it often uses 360-degree camera effects, for instance, to convey characters’ agitation or decompensation. But it also has a curiosity and a belief, not unlike “How to With John Wilson,” that everyone is potentially interesting and worthy of empathy. Maybe it’s a weird dream to want to raise goats on your lawn or to feed an entire neighborhood’s cats. But it’s still a dream, and it hurts to lose it.

Firstly, it’s production week for The Cloud Report, so I’m over here stamping, stickering, and labeling my little heart out. Reports are going in the mail on the 20th.

I’m switching up the paper and ink colors every quarter, so April marks the beginning of the Primaries Era:

Last week was the first-ever Vermont Art Book Fair, and it was incredible. I was so impressed by the organizers and blown away by the talented makers in the room. So much beautiful printed matter! I So much fun meeting so many cool people (including some of you)!

Josh of Directangle Press and I soft-launched Quilt Study, a book of quilt-inspired risograph-printed illustrations I’ve been working on for the past year. I made the illustrations, and Josh and I collaborated on the book design (though he led on that front; he’s a book design genius).

We hoped to hard launch the book at the fair, but we couldn’t get them all bound in time. We took some pre-orders that’ll ship out this week, and we’re hoping to do a launch event in Burlington this summer and release a limited-edition print series as part of it. I’ve never done anything like this, so it’s exciting. Stay tuned for that!

I’ll have these available in my online shop, and we’ll probably do a second edition if we sell out, so don’t worry if you want one and you’re not local, I got you!

I don’t have any photos from the Vermont Art Book Fair. Josh only has this one–me, lying down mid-conversation with someone because I’d hit my social interaction limit with about four hours left and I just needed to be hidden and horizontal for a second.

Other stuff:

• Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered one of my NOFA-VT shirts–we raised $2,000, which will be turned into 10 mini-grants for Vermonters to host dinners with their neighbors. That’s extremely cool! Thank you! New Duds is taking care of the shipping and everything, so if you have questions, ask them!

• I’m turning 37 on Sunday. 37 feels like a big number, but so far, 2026 has been very good to me. I like myself more and more every year. I’m leaning into 37.

Christine Tyler Hill

Website: christinetylerhill.com

Email: cth@christinetylerhill.com