What are you as much as this weekend? Tonight I’m excited to see Oh, Mary!, the dark-comedy play about Mary Todd Lincoln. It’s presupposed to be hilarious, and I can’t wait to see Cole Escola carry out in actual life. Additionally, right here’s our Cup of Jo Vacation Present Information up to now, in addition to our Huge Salad Present Information that includes three mates. Hope you’ve one, and listed here are a couple of hyperlinks from across the internet…
Would you attend a Jeremy Allen-White lookalike contest?
Love the cable element on this sweater — and oooooh this skirt!
A really vegetarian Thanksgiving. (NYTimes present hyperlink)
How the Irish got here to rule popular culture. Columnist Séamas O’Reilly says that Eire advantages from being “everybody’s second-favorite nation.” Author Róisín Lanigan says exhibits and books usually depict “a sure sort of Irish. On the entire, it appears to be, ‘They’re sizzling and unhappy.’” (NYMag)
Would you make a tater tot quiche?
“Once I was a young person, I took the practice to go to the report retailer to search out uncommon stuff,” says filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt. “Spotify is far more handy, however that wasn’t the purpose. The purpose was to get out and to really feel such as you’re looking.” I really feel this manner about Netflix vs Blockbuster Video — I imply, driving with all of your cousins and siblings to Blockbuster on December twenty sixth to duke it out over what film you have been going to hire and watch with all the household? Now that was LIVING!
This e-book is absolutely enjoyable.
What a killer Tony Soprano impression.
Chilly swimming underneath ice appears to be like extraordinarily claustrophobic.
John Krasinski was named Folks’s sexiest man alive, and Hunter Harris has ideas: “He may very well be the sexiest man at an airport Panera. He might very effectively be the sexiest man on the campus of a small midwestern non-public college. He may very well be the sexiest man at a Pottery Barn outlet, getting an incredible deal on a giant lamp. No, John Krasinski was not the sexiest man alive in 2024. He was not even the sexiest man in The Workplace! (That was David Wallace.) John Krasinski shouldn’t be even the sexiest man in his family. That’d be his brother-in-law, Stanley Tucci.”
Plus, three reader feedback:
Says Emily on what stage of parenting are you in: “I noticed one thing so candy the opposite day – reframing the ‘Empty Nest’ section because the ‘Open Door’ section, and orienting your parenting for that to be the tip objective. Your property has an open door on your grown youngsters to return and go, by way of texts, calls, and in-person visits.”
Says Kara on what’s your low-key want for humanity: “I wasn’t identified with my autism till I used to be 34. When a grocery cart is empty, it’s SO MUCH LOUDER, and it bounces round much more. I at all times struggled to return the cart as a result of pushing it throughout blacktop felt like nails in my palms and ears. I didn’t know not everybody skilled this; I simply assumed I used to be lazy human rubbish. After I obtained my analysis, I began noticing all of the issues I had been white-knuckling by way of. Once I was trying out on the grocery retailer, and the clerk requested, ‘Do you want assist out?’ it abruptly occurred to me that I DID. I stated, ‘Yeah, uh, I’ve autism, and the cart is fairly rattle-y; might any person push it for me whereas I plug my ears?’ And she or he stated, ‘Yep! After all!’ Once I obtained to my automobile, and the particular person took the cart away, I obtained within the entrance seat and sobbed. This was the primary time I hadn’t needed to return the cart myself and set my nervous system on hearth. It wasn’t a giant deal for them to assist me, nevertheless it was a HUGE DEAL for me to know to ask. Right here’s the TL;DR: In case you ever end up asking, ‘Why can’t you simply —’ STOP. Don’t end that sentence. The world is extremely troublesome, and also you don’t at all times know what somebody’s battle could also be. So, if you’re ready, sure, completely return the cart. However assuming one thing damaging about an individual as a result of they aren’t doing one thing *you* discover straightforward, truly makes the world a harsher place.”
Says Cyndi on what’s your low-key want for humanity: “I’m reminded of the sage recommendation given by our pricey Catherine Newman in an NPR interview: ‘[Being an etiquette columnist] has influenced each single side of my life. In case you write an etiquette column for 10 years, you see that it’s actually exhausting to cope with the actual fact of different individuals’s otherness. Each etiquette query may very well be decreased to that. You don’t like any person’s wind chimes. Somebody places lipstick on on the desk. Do you invite your homosexual cousin-in-law to your wedding ceremony? The thrust of each query is, individuals are completely different from me, and I can’t stand it. After which the factor that it’s a must to say to all people is, it’s a must to stand it. That’s the human situation. It’s a must to method it with as a lot grace as is humanly potential, which is extra grace than you’re presently mustering.’ I discover myself referring to this recommendation on a regular basis, particularly whereas navigating life with twin toddlers.”
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