(More) Catalog Nostalgia, and a Plea for Running Point

Also, Shailene Woodley and Chef Gabriel?!? With bonus Pacey. Kinda.

In October 2023, I wrote a piece imploring, I don’t know, the world to bring back catalogs — most specifically, the J.Crew catalog, but don’t get it twisted, I’d be delighted to open my mailbox and get something from J.Jill or J.Peterman. Any of the J.s! It is pleasant to stand out by the mail and flip through whatever your friendly mail carrier has brought you that isn’t a bill or some lengthy screed from your health insurance company letting you know how much you’ve got left on your deductible. I can’t speak for anyone else, but a good catalog is successful in terms of driving me specifically to buy stuff. For example, I noted on Go Fug Yourself recently that Boden is excellent at putting together a catalog that makes me think, “I need to buy this for my vacation IMMEDIATELY,” regardless of whether I’m even going on vacation. Every time I get a catalog from the folks at Zingerman’s, I sit down and delight in its charming drawings and excellent copy and then buy a $60 coffee cake. (T…