This is the week The Toast was born anew! Let’s all talk some more about how much we love the redesign. And if you have yet to fall down the rabbit hole reading all the nerdy technical deets / listening to the related podcast, I can vouch that it’s a good way to spend your afternoon.

“Only diaries, letters, and memoirs—and Nightwood itself—preserve the atmosphere and events of those tense, languid, wine-fueled days” at Hayford Hall.

New cartoons by Liana Finck!

Reasons I Would Make an Excellent Housekeeper in a Forbidding Eighteenth Century Estate and You Should Consider Me for the Position

WHY IS THIS ANYONE’S JOB THOUGH

“Nothing Going On Here Resembles A Trashcan Fire” and other Songs from a Mountain Goats Album in Which Cicero is Not Mentioned and Everybody’s Marriages Work Out

Very comforting photos from the cemetery.

Church history puns that Mallory couldn’t stop herself from making, assuming she tried.

Giant pumpkin science!

Have a fun and festive Halloween, Toasties; we love you a lot.