FRIDAY FOURTEEN ISSUE 83

July 2, 2021
This week: Jessica Simpson’s response to the great tuna sandwich mystery, a sobering thread of things most people don’t realise is a privilege, Stanley Tucci’s road trip eggplant parmigiana recipe that sent us swooning, a fascinating deep dive into how companies big and small are navigating the whole WFH thing as the world inches its way out of the pandemic, retail rage videos from our new favourite internet comedian, and more.

Write a horror story about your industry in four words or less

What it’s like to live with chronic pain (“The single most difficult aspect of dealing with these conditions/symptoms is not the pain or exhaustion, but the inability of doctors and others to take the time to try and understand what is going on, even just to listen properly.”)

Jessica Simpson’s response to this week’s great tuna sandwich mystery was gold

A sobering thread of things most people don’t realise is a privilege

Friends fans, one for you. This is a fascinating insight into the show by the supporting cast

Seven places to buy original artwork under $1,500

Which one are you?

Stanley Tucci has shared his road trip eggplant parmigiana recipe and we’re collectively swooning (and starving)

A fascinating deep dive by the brilliant Anne Helen Petersen on how companies big and small are navigating the whole WFH thing as the world inches its way out of the pandemic (“Organisations where employees have been largely working from home for the past 16 months are having a mild freak-out. They’re hemming and hawing. They’re treading water. They’re having seemingly endless meetings with HR. They’re analysing focus group data and surveys, and drafting carefully worded “back to the office” plans. And they’re dealing with or anticipating or totally ignoring employee blowback.”)

The history of computer-related pain, and the astounding efforts humans went to (and continue to ) alleviate it

Triggering password recovery questions

This is utterly genius: Model makers Tony Lai and Maggie Chan are preserving the Hong Kong of their childhood by re-creating it in miniature form

Scott Seiss is one of our favourite things about the internet right now (also watch this, and this, and this – sound on!)

The names of things you probably didn’t know (An interrobang?!)

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

LIZZIE —>
Eating:
Using up my stash of Maggi two minute noodles with this recipe from Hetty McKinnon (still obsessed with everything she comes up with)
Listening: This cover of Peaches by Justin Beiber in the strokes of The Strokes
Learning: How to make these incredible ice cream cakes – getting ready for summer!

VANESSA —>
Cooking:
Smitten Kitchen’s zucchini butter spaghetti. A mess of silky creamy carby goodness
Watching: Shrill season 3. The worst boyfriend ever is GONE and it’s shaping up to be the best season yet
Listening: Every episode of the podcast You're Wrong About is a gem, but this one on Cancel Culture is particularly good