What are you as much as this weekend? We’re going to Jenny’s home tonight for burgers. Additionally, CoJ reader Alexa made me giggle: “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 may be nothing else. And if there’s, cancel it.” So, that, too! Hope you could have an excellent one, and listed below are just a few hyperlinks from across the internet…
LOVE this blanket for summer season evenings.
Have you ever seen the trailer for Dumb Cash? Appears compelling.
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 Virtually Am? The identical creator wrote about her twin getting married, and about her personal marriage: Giving Away My Twin. “To be only one particular person, it truly is sort of scary.” (New Yorker)
As a facet notice, that jogs my memory: I as soon as chatted with the man subsequent to me within the viewers at an creator studying, and it got here up that we have been each twins. “Are you guys similar?” I requested, and he mentioned, “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 mentioned, “As a result of if we weren’t similar, I’d be devastated,” and I requested why, and he mentioned, “As a result of then I’d be on their own.” Fascinating, proper? I’ve thought of 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 desires to take a stroll in Paris? (NYTimes reward hyperlink)
The Icelandic phrase “ísbíltúr” interprets as an “ice cream highway journey,” the place households get within the automotive, drive leisurely round city, and cease for ice cream. (by way of Kottke)
Physique speak, co-sign.
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 occasion in late October. My roomie and I had the concept to slather on Coppertone Water Infants sunscreen, and it was such a success! People smelling us, breaking into large grins. There’s something so magical a few scent that transports you to summer season trip.”
Says Brooke on have a scrumptious weekend: “Season 2 of the podcast The Turning is named Room of Mirrors, and it fantastically 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 angle 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. Each time they’re placing needles in my arm, I shut my eyes and movie the Cup of Jo header, and it brings great 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 an excellent one. xoxo
(Photograph of my twin sister and me.)
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