I’ve spent much of the past week lying in bed, veering between feeling miserable (stomach virus) and feeling mad at our bed pillows for not being more comfortable. (The pillow under my head is fine—we covered that thoroughly in a previous post—it’s the support pillows for my Panama Canal-like arrangement of framing my whole body with feather down padding.) I had enough time lying prone to conclude that it’s actually the pillowcases that are at fault. They’re so narrow that they squeeze the pillows like a pair of Spanx, making you feel like you’re sleeping on a newly-pumped-up bike tire.
This is a problem I will solve another day.
Image via A24
Once I regained some semblance of human-ness, I channeled my energies into catching up on important matters, like sourcing the yellow bowl from the now-famous egg scene in You Can See Everything. Elizabeth Holmes may not know how to whisk eggs, but the bowl she chose for the task was just right. A snappy golden yellow. Not too deep. A white interior so you can see the ingredients. I had to know who made it. (Also, I hope the next time Billy tries to take control of the whisking, she pours the minimally-agitated eggs over his stupid head.)
I played the scene over and over in my head to determine if the bowl was glass or melamine. The tinny scraping sounded like glass to me. The photo above suggests that it’s translucent. The thin but deep, layered rim has sharp edges, which meant that it was likely made of melamine or another plastic. I looked for translucent melamine and glass bowls. And looked. And looked. THE yellow bowl could not be located.* But I found a slew of good runners-up: ...
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