Depending what time you’re reading this, HAIM’s new album is either just about to drop or has just been released. Go, go!
Six renowned writers share stories of memorable restaurant meals. We particularly loved reading about Samantha Irby’s love affair with the Cheesecake Factory, and Carmen Maria Machado’s beautiful piece on the joy of eating alone (“In this pandemic era, I cannot help but think: What a miracle! To choose a restaurant and get there on your own steam and order a meal and pay for it with your money and then to eat every single bite.”)
US comedian Sarah Cooper has been churning out the most MAGNIFICENT impersonations of Donald Trump over the last few months and her latest one on ‘how to empty seat’ is one of her best yet (here’s her Instagram & Twitter if you’re not already following)
A career doesn’t have to be a straight line
Some great advice for how to show up for your friends in 2020 (“Instead of spreading yourself super thin and trying to set up a Google Hangout with everyone you know, it might make sense to focus on the two or three people you feel a really strong connection with and try to build those relationships up and make them deeper and stronger through this.”)
Your perfect glass of wine (according to your star sign)
Six overseas-born Australians share what first surprised them about eating, cooking and buying Aussie food (“When José Escobar moved to Australia seven years ago, he was surprised to discover that there was no such thing as a “national dish” and that he could easily access any cuisine he wanted. His standout discoveries are Indian and Japanese-style curries. “Eating rice with my hands in an Indian restaurant was a completely new experience, because in Colombia we eat rice with spoons or forks.”)
“Five things I want to tell my white friends”
Mark August 6 in your diary: Uniqlo and Marimekko are doing another collab and the pieces look AMAZING
Hadley Freeman writes exquisitely about single parenthood in the Guardian (“What an idiot I had been, thinking that I could go back and make a family later, that I could work out how to have a relationship with a nice man later. I didn’t know any nice men. What I knew were exciting men, egotistical men, men who ran fast, whom you could sometimes run alongside, as long as you didn’t let out a single whisper of genuine need.”)
There’s an airport in Taiwan offering 90 people the chance to recreate the experience of long haul travel, complete with long lines at security, passport control and terrible airport food… but without the actual flying. At this stage, we can’t quite work out if this is the best idea we’ve ever heard, or the absolute worst
Over on Twitter, Benjamin Law has shared an intriguing recipe for cauliflower soup that sounds disgusting but also strangely delicious?
A whole host of classic Aussie flicks have been added to ABC iView, including Little Fish, Samson and Delilah, Somersault, Snowtown (!!), Two Hands, Lantana and loads more
Now couldn’t be a weirder time to question washing, but apparently we’re all showering too much
Oh, and the folk behind Hope for Nauru are looking for smartphones and tablets for refugees, so if you have old tech in a top condition (standard battery life and no screen cracks), send them to the PO listed at the bottom of their website (Hope For Nauru, PO Box 4043, Balwyn East Victoria 3103)
