Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s advice for living
If you’re in need of some relief from the absolute shitstorm that’s 2020, may we suggest spending some time scrolling through the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards? It helps, we promise
We were stoked to discover that one of our favourite podcasts Song Exploder – which features musicians telling the stories of how their songs were created – is now a Netflix show. Watch the trailer here (it launches today!)
…and while you’re over on Netflix, check out the documentary ‘My Octopus Teacher’. Completely mesmerising, completely unlike any doco we’ve ever seen
This is gold: “I, the dog, will give you a tour of my house”
Ugh this Brooklyn apartment is so good (all those shades of pink! the wiggly furniture!)
Ann Patchett has an essay in this week’s New Yorker about marriage, divorce and the three fathers who raised her, and it’s addictive reading from beginning to end (“Marriage has always proved irresistible to my family. We try and fail and try again, somehow maintaining our belief in an institution that has made fools of us all. I’ve married twice; so has my sister. Our mother had three husbands. None of us intended this to happen. We meant to stick our landing on the first try, but we stumbled.”)
Tiny love stories
Over on Twitter, the actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt asked people to share what they’d buy if they had all the money in the world, and the responses will make you feel a thousand times better about the human race (well, at least most of them)
Have your joy
Truth: We lost a good couple of hours this week to Virtual Vacation, a website that serves random videos of cities all over the world and asks you to guess the location. It’s addictive, we’re sorry, you’re welcome!
What’s the first magazine you ever loved?
Finally, someone has put into words what we’ve suspected for years: Why Goodreads is bad for books
Yes, yes, yes: “Vacation anticipation is a real thing. It helps your brain. And now it’s gone”
