FRIDAY FOURTEEN ISSUE 113

March 4, 2022
This week: Short, sweet and silly things, including a new Haim song, Substack recs, fancy hotel recs, a photograph that will restore your faith in humanity, colourful homes, Tiktoks galore, and more

Illustration by Slice friend Studio Farr


This is the nicest, happiest thing we’ve read in ages

Get ready for the rise of boozy water

One of our all-time favourite people to follow on Twitter is the writer Rachel Syme, who’s excellent at being nosy and asking questions that gets people talking. This week, she asked people, “If you had to book one night only to yourself at any hotel in the world, which one would it be?” Be warned, this will make you want to eat room service in a white robe immediately

Loved this Guardian piece about the rise of voice notes (although the opening story was excruciating to read)

Would someone please turn A Little Life into the TV show it deserves to be??

Haim released a new song this week (accompanied by a video clip directed by Paul Thomas Anderson) and it’s perfection

Contouring 101

Emma Gannon, who wrote the brilliant books The Multi-Hyphen Method and Olive, is now publishing a newsletter through Substack

How to make friends at work

Not sure what to post online during a crisis? Probably nothing at all (“After Putin declared a nuclear alert this weekend, I continued emailing companies I’ve worked for asking for tax documents. There’s not much else I can do with my life other than keep living it, online and off, and trust I know when my voice is needed and when it’s not.”)

This photograph will restore your faith in humanity ❤️❤️❤️

Quite possible the best description of grief we’ve ever read

This house feels like it shouldn’t work but somehow it just does, and lusting over these colourful homes in Brooklyn (those bookshelves!) and Los Angeles (that orange couch!)

A poem for these times