Just Good Shit: 09.01.19
Heyoh! I’m back from vacation just in time for September, my least favorite month of the year. Here’s what I’ve got for you…
On the blog
Elsewhere
You can catch me on two episodes of NPR’s Life Kit: “Accept The Awkwardness: How To Make Friends (And Keep Them)” and “When Friendships Change, How To Cope.” I was also interviewed for this article: Want Stronger Friendships? Pull Out Your Notepad.
Reading
I read a bunch of books while on vacation: Red, White & Royal Blue, which I fucking loved and highly recommend; Heartburn, which was very funny/different but definitely didn’t age well; and The Blue Bistro (not my fave Elin novel, but I know most people love it). I also started Silver Girl.
Also:
No distractions: An NFL veteran opens up on his sexuality, ESPN.
This is so moving; if you read one thing this week, make it this.
Fix the Electoral College — Or Scrap It, The New York Times.
Vote for the Woman Because She’s a Woman, Time.
The Adults In The Room, Deadspin.
“The journalists at Deadspin and its sister sites, like most journalists I know, are eager to do work that makes money; we are even willing to compromise for it, knowing that our jobs and futures rest on it. An ever-growing number of media owners, meanwhile, are so exceedingly unwilling to reckon with the particulars of their own business that they refuse to accept our eagerness to help them make money. … The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits; it’s that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”
Why Celebrities From Reality Stars to A-Listers Fake Their Marriages, Vice.
How MTV’s ‘Are You The One?’ Is Changing Dating Shows, Rolling Stone.
How Queer People Brought Some Actual Reality to Dating-Reality TV, The New York Times.
How on Earth Did ‘Are You The One’ Get Queer Love So Right?, ELLE.
Battle Hymn of the #Boymom, Jezebel.
I Came Out As A Lesbian While I Was Married To A Man., Raff Out Loud.
How I Learned to Look Like Myself, The Cut.
God, there is so much in this essay about eyebrows that perfectly maps to my own experiences.
A Guide to Drawing Fat People, Stine Greve on Instagram.
Cooking
Yesterday I bought three pounds of farmers market tomatoes and am planning to make BLTs with marinated tomatoes and Alison Roman's tomato toast with buttered shrimp.
Have a great Sunday! ✨
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