What are you as much as this weekend? We’re going to Jenny’s home tonight for burgers. Additionally, CoJ reader Alexa made me snort: “All I can say is, I absolutely anticipate to test in tomorrow and see that your weekend plans are watching Soiled Dancing,” she wrote yesterday. “There’s nothing else. And if there’s, cancel it.” So, that, too! Hope you’ve a great one, and listed here are a couple of hyperlinks from across the internet…
LOVE this blanket for summer season evenings.
Have you ever seen the trailer for Dumb Cash? Seems compelling.
Now that’s an egg sandwich.
The Milwaukee airport has a Recombobulation Space.
This costume is so fairly. (These scallops!)
Did you ever learn the ground-shaking essay about being a twin, There I Nearly Am? The identical writer wrote about her twin getting married, and about her personal marriage: Giving Away My Twin. “To be only one particular person, it truly is type of scary.” (New Yorker)
As a aspect word, that jogs my memory: I as soon as chatted with the man subsequent to me within the viewers at an writer studying, and it got here up that we have been each twins. “Are you guys equivalent?” I requested, and he stated, “My mother and father all the time thought we have been, and now there’s a check we will take to substantiate that, however we’re not going to take it,” and I requested why not, and he stated, “As a result of if we weren’t equivalent, I might be devastated,” and I requested why, and he stated, “As a result of then I’d be on their own.” Fascinating, proper? I’ve considered that each few weeks of my grownup life.
In different information, I’d marry somebody in the event that they made me this cake.
Who needs to take a stroll in Paris? (NYTimes present hyperlink)
The Icelandic phrase “ísbíltúr” interprets as an “ice cream highway journey,” the place households get within the automobile, drive leisurely round city, and cease for ice cream. (by way of Kottke)
Physique discuss, co-sign.
Made me snort.
Plus, three reader feedback:
Mary says on the random factor I get probably the most compliments on: “Throughout school up north, there was a beach-themed celebration in late October. My roomie and I had the concept to slather on Coppertone Water Infants sunscreen, and it was such a success! Of us smelling us, breaking into big grins. There’s something so magical a couple of scent that transports you to summer season trip.”
Says Brooke on have a scrumptious weekend: “Season 2 of the podcast The Turning is known as Room of Mirrors, and it superbly captures the complexity of the American ballet world and its many entrenched points (racism, sexism, homophobia, body-shaming, consuming dysfunction prevalence, abuse) however from the attitude of somebody who deeply loves the artwork type. (Season 1 is about nuns in Mom Teresa’s order and is equally nuanced and engrossing.)”
Says Anon on the random factor I get probably the most compliments on: “I’ve been going to the physician lately for a painful recurring appointment. At any time when they’re placing needles in my arm, I shut my eyes and movie the Cup of Jo header, and it brings super consolation. Twice within the final week, I used this trick, as looney because it sounds. Simply know this web site brings me immense pleasure and calms my central nervous system.” [Ed note: Thank you, Anon; we are so touched.]
Have a great one. xoxo
(Picture of my twin sister and me.)
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