Thanks for visiting my Substack newsletter, IPAs and Cupcakes, in which we’ll be discussing pop culture, films, TV, what I’m reading, what I’m not reading, among other things of interest. Stay awhile!

To get started, here are a few of my favorites over the years:

• Thoughts on one of my favorite movies, “You've Got Mail”

• Complaining about Seth Rogen’s relationship to Jewish history in An American Pickle

• Dramatic irony in Clare’s season of The Bachelorette, aka embracing the fact that I am part of Bachelor Nation

• This ridiculous gift guide that I spent a lot of time on

I like to post biweekly – one regular post on Mondays (or Tuesdays) and one Weekend Reads on Fridays, in which you’ll find the book I’ll be reading over Shabbos and the articles I enjoyed over the past week (and beyond).

For previous blog entries, please refer to “Thoughts with Alisa” on my personal website at http://www.alisaus.com/blog.

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