Section 07 · Craft Services

Craft Services

The table in the hallway. Where the crew actually meets each other.

On a set, craft services is where you figure out who everybody is. Here: the things outside the work that are still very much the work. The recipes. The books. The playlists. The Chicago spots. A room kept deliberately fun on a serious site.

The Recipe

The chocolate chip cookie that won.

Name the cookie recipe. Not the generic Toll House version — your version. The one with the browned butter or the flaky salt or the night-long rest. A sentence of why it wins. A link to the recipe if it's public, or a "drop me a line and I'll send it" if it's not.

The Reading List

What's open on the nightstand right now.

Three to five books. Actual current reading. A novel, a memoir, a work of criticism, a trade book on the industry, a cookbook. The list from the voice map — Sophie Kinsella next to Toni Morrison — is the register to hit.

The Building Playlist

The soundtrack for making a forest.

A short description of what's on rotation while you work. A Spotify or Apple Music link if you have a public playlist for this. A line of context — what the playlist is for, what the mood is.

The Chicago Map

The spots I defend in court.

Five Chicago places you actually love and go to. A restaurant. A bookstore. A neighborhood. A museum. A barbershop or salon you trust. One line each. The geographic specificity is the whole point.

The Watch List

What I just saw and can't stop thinking about.

One film or TV show, currently. Not a capsule review. A sentence on the one specific thing it's teaching you about the work. (The voice map note — "not just watching, studying" — applies here.)

The YouTube Channel

Sunshine Moxie on YouTube.

The beginning of the Sunshine Moxie cultural commentary show — Cultural Curiosity and Commentary in video form. Currently in development. Existing work and older videos already live on the channel.

@SunshineMoxie →