FRIDAY FOURTEEN ISSUE 80

June 11, 2021
This week: What it's like for young Australians turning 18 in the pandemic, a mesmerising photo essay in the New Yorker featuring women who've chosen to go grey, an emosh Friday playlist, women who dumped their partners because Reddit told them to, good news from Coles, Tiktoks to aid you in wasting time, and more.

In praise of small menus

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s palatial “farmhouse” — complete with a guest barn, set of silver thrones and a 10-foot-tall chandelier — has been featured in Architectural Digest, and it’s equal parts stunning and ridiculous

Anna Wintour’s neighbour is our hero of the week

What it’s like for young Australians turning 18 in a pandemic

Supermarket chain Coles is about to pilot a BYO container system where customers will be able to take their own containers and fill them with washing detergent, face wash, shampoo, coffee and even olive oil 🏼

How to stop living in ‘Infinite Browsing Mode

This week’s guilty pleasure read is this fly-on-the-wall account of the first days of the Kardashian empire (“When a marginally famous family made its reality TV debut in October 2007, Hollywood writers were on the brink of the longest work stoppage since 1988 and our long lost friend, the BlackBerry, was still riding high as the smartphone of choice. Instagram? Hadn’t been invented yet.”)

In love with absolutely everything about this photo essay in the New Yorker of women keeping their beautiful grey hair (“It was almost like breaking an addiction,” one woman said about giving up her hair-colouring routine in the pandemic)

Obsessed with the idea of a human library

This week on Twitter, the artist Sam Leighton Dore asked the question: ‘What’s the 90s/00s Australian pop song that, if heard unexpectedly on the radio, would make you *feel* something?’ and then turned the hundreds of epic responses into an emosh playlist on Spotify. So many feelings for a Friday

Tiny love stories (“Two days later, he moved into my loft”)

Excuse us while we fangirl over the news that OG food blogger Deb Perlman from Smitten Kitchen has started a YouTube channel called Smitten Kitchening

Women who dumped their partners because Reddit told them to

Some TikToks to aid you in wasting time: This surprisingly catchy jam, let’s play mermaids, contact tracing in Australia (watch with sound on), who wrote Round the Twist anyway? and… Adele was a nurse??

What we’re eating, listening to, reading and watching this week:

LIZZIE —>

Binging: The Secret Life of Us on Netflix. I’m ten years behind the rest of Australia (Vanessa upon discovering Liz has never watched it: 🤯)
Cooking: Poh’s chocolate pots. Seven mins prep, 8 mins cooking time, I’m sold.
Watching: This impersonation of Ira Glass telling the story of the three little pigs

VANESSA —>

Reading: Careless, a very impressive debut novel from Kirsty Capes, who’s still only in her 20s and doesn’t make feel unaccomplished at all
Watching: S3 of Master of None, which depicts the most realistic portrayal of IVF that I’ve ever seen on screen
Drinking and eating: Everything in the Barossa this weekend, including pasta from Casa Carboni, wine from Smallfry and Kalleske and Alkina, and a long Sunday lunch at Lou’s Place. Byeeeeeee!