February is a good month to get shit done
If you open one link this week, make it this astonishingly beautiful short story from Ann Patchett, who writes about Tom Hanks, chemo, Covid, magic mushrooms and true friendship and it’s just so, so good
We’ve watched Missy Higgins and Gordi sing the The Sound of White together, oh, about a trillion times this week
You may think you don’t need to watch a video teaching you how to make fried eggs, but you would be wrong
Turns out even the woman who wrote Emily in Paris doesn’t think the show deserves a Golden Globe
We’re counting down the days til this new Aussie series comes to the ABC and Netflix (11, to be exact)
This story on The Cut about flatmates who welcomed a lodger and her young daughter into their two bedroom NY apartment only to find themselves living with a hoarder who refused to pay rent is WILD!!! (“New York roommate stories often begin with a kind of claustrophobic, reluctant symbiosis: Two people, linked solely by necessity, now also have to share the same bathroom. Here, finding a place to live is so notoriously difficult, the hunt so mythologically cutthroat, that the parties tend also to be united in desperation.”)
It’s okay to say ‘I don’t know’
Stories of living alone during the pandemic (“The most physical contact I’ve had was with a cashier giving me change. I’ve resorted to pushing my hand against the wall just to get a tactile sensation… and sleeping with another pillow to simulate hugging.”)
Winter lockdown failings for our northern hemisphere friends
Loved this piece in GQ that asks 12 very different people (like Phoebe Bridgers, Drew Barrymore, Anthony Hopkins, Goldie Hawn, Chelsea Manning, David Lynch, Roxane Gay…) to talk about the very different and often contradictory ways we talk about, search for, and experience happiness
We’ve stumbled upon this magnificent Google Sheet that compares interest rates across pretty much every Australian bank and it’s a thing of beauty, we tell you
This list of 101 ways to live more sustainably has us re-thinking habits and assumptions
So, literally everyone’s making the feta and tomato pasta that went viral on TikTok this week, and the genius Deb from Smitten Kitchen has gone one step further and added chickpeas to the recipe. We know what we’re making this weekend
