Every year since 2014, a group in Japan has held a Halloween event where people come dressed not as witches or zombies but in everyday “mundane” costumes. This year’s costumes include “woman who forgot to take out the trash” and “woman who showed up to a BBQ with no intention of helping out”. Utter brilliance.
This New Balance ad was by far the best thing on Instagram this week
Okay, let’s talk about it: why do we hate vegans so much?
Zadie Smith is her usual brilliant self in Vogue this month as she mulls over the difference between London vs New York fashion (“London women believe in a second layer: cardigan, hoodie, shacket. New York women, in my experience, do not. They’d rather a long-sleeve blouse, a cashmere sweater, or the kind of brightly coloured, expensive, delicate spring coat you can wear in New York for exactly nine days in May. In both cities, as far as I can tell, the heel as daywear is dead. Not as dead as it is in Paris, where you rarely see a young woman out of trainers – but still pretty dead.”)
The connection between food and mourning runs deep
A guide to Asian restaurants according to Ali Wong (“Chinese: The pork and shrimp will arrive straight away, but it will take an hour to get a glass of water. Vietnamese: There are fake red candles with incense burning.”)
This Twitter thread explaining passive-aggressive British email etiquette contains some real gems
Shall we all just agree that the best day is Thursday? (“Everyone knows Monday is trash, that’s a given. Wednesday is right in the middle, which isn’t doing anyone any favours. Tuesday is better, but really only because anything looks good after Monday. Friday is manic and excitable and overrated and almost always too much — the Ace Ventura-era Jim Carrey of weekend days.”)
An important investigation into the best way to cook a baked potato
This broccoli caesar salad will change your life
The plan for abortion clinics in a post-Roe world (“Here in Fairview Heights, the new clinic, in a low-slung brick building that looks a bit like a bank, is “strategically located” next to several budget hotels and a large shopping centre with “a lot of food options,” Ms. Rodriguez said. “We know women will travel across state lines and across the country,” she said.”)
This article over at The Conversation about how food became gendered is FASCINATING (“By the early 20th century, women’s food was commonly described as “dainty,” meaning fanciful but not filling. Women’s magazines included advertisements for typical female foodstuffs: salads, colourful and shimmering Jell-O mold creations, or fruit salads decorated with marshmallows, shredded coconut and maraschino cherries.”)
New research explains why we don’t live in a constant fear of death
Lizzie binge-watched Modern Love last weekend, and she recommends ya’ll should too (just don’t forget the tissues)
