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    I really enjoyed this pretty introverts on the internet essay.

    Joe played Little Wings for me last night and it was so nice. (specifically the “Light Green Leaves” album from 2002)

    I’m reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek to completely check out for 15 minutes and its totally working.

    My favorite part of Alice Waters’ ratatouille recipe (that I’ve made approximately 20x in my life) is when you drop a whole bunch of basil straight into the hot pan. My second favorite part is how it tastes better when it’s three days old.

    Joe wrote up an article about diagrams and published it on the very hip Medium where it has been lauded and acclaimed far beyond our kitchen table.

    An email from my friend Jordan about a new movie and a new show. We all need a friend like her to keep us appreciative and in love with good media:

    …Oh I am SO glad you like Bling Ring!  I just loved it, too!  Whoever the girl is who played Chloe, make her a star RIGHT NOW!  And the Thiessa Farmiga-dances-with-a-gun-moment was actually disturbing. She really put on the disaffected girl with crazy eyes hat there and it just WORKED.  I’m calling it Sophia’s best yet, as the highly dreary nature of Virgin Suicides does not allow for repeat viewing 🙁 

    What else do I love?  Orange is the New Black!  But in a much more well rounded way.  I wouldn’t exactly stand on a box and defend Bling Ring to people as universally lovable, but Orange is the New Black… If someone doesn’t like it they’re an asshole. Seeing Natasha Lyonne as a heroin junkie turned inmate turned brassy advice giver could be too spot on to work, but instead it goes off just perfectly!  And Laura Prepon really works for me in her role too.  I think it’s her renaissance post-That 70s Show.  Really all of the characters just weedle their way into your heart 🙂  And it’s so weird to see a cast of women, just almost all women – who aren’t particularly attractive either!  The male characters really just exist to highlight the female story lines.  That Jenji Kohan.  A lady for ladies.

     

     

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    Happy weekend! We’re going to Maine and it’s going to rain but I still want to do everything we did last time to the letter. And stop by the More & Co shop in Portland, and Cape Porpoise Outfitters on the way home. And maybe pick some strawberries.

    1/ Momfilter has an interview with the directors of the Birth Story. When is that documentary coming to Boston? I might just have to buy it on iTunes.

    2/ This pretty pretty movie preview sent to me by Kellyn.

    3/ This spring playlist by Kinfolk magazine.

    4/ If I can write something like this by Kim Foster about my daughters making me breakfast someday, all will be well.

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    Hot summer bedrooms (not hot like sexy, hot like stuffy and “I waited the whole school year for summer and now this feels miserable, and it’s sunny but everything is not automatically fixed”). Summer homes and cottages, camp, secret neighborhood hangout spots like bridges, overpasses, rivers, and cemeteries. Feeling homesick. Taking sad baths. “Last Days of Disco” by Yo La Tengo/everything by Yo La Tengo. Miranda July’s short stories.Gerhard Richter‘s paintings that look like old photographs. Mark BorthwickCorinne DayRyan McGinley, and Sally Mann. Overalls, white cotton dresses, chain-link fences, the beach, lighthouses, clotheslines, backyards, watercolors, pencils, butterflies and butterfly nets, seashells, the pool and all the gross pool chairs, homemade lemonade, sunflowers, dandelions, straw, fields, all those dirty-looking flowers, and those vaguely Scandinavian floral patterns that you find on dish towels and shit.

    -Tavi’s Editor’s Letter about Longing and Summer.

     

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    The internet has been down in our apartment since last Tuesday. I was trying not to panic, but I was definitely panicking. It’s back at last, and the good news is I have a bunch of stuff I want to post this week since I was so unfairly suppressed and sequestered last week.

    In honor of its return, I thought I’d post a few things I’ve enjoyed (read via iPhone) in the last week.

    This little collection of food photos with the stories behind them, by Youngna Park at First We Feast–she’s the best.

    Kate’s dispatches from pregnancy-nausea-induced-couch-living made me laugh. Oh nausea–you’re so funny from far, far away.

    Lisa’s post about useful things, and the small things behind them. Maybe if I get some good silver polish I will soon have a bucket with champagne chilling as well.

    Betsy’s post at Eco-Novice about what she has bought and sold on Craigslist over the years. Oddly intriguing in that other-people’s-business way. I’d like to be someone who managed to use Craigslist more. (if you’re in Boston, I’m a fan of Crocodile Tears who super-curates local craigslist stuff and posts almost every day.)

    This morning we went to the Brimfield Antique Fair; we seem to go to almost every spring and fall. I’ve read a lot of bloggers post-Brimfield recaps but I just loved Amanda Soule’s approach: what she wanted, why she bought it, how she used it.