FRIDAY FOURTEEN ISSUE 89

August 13, 2021
This week: How to fight climate change with optimism (and some ideas for how you can take action right now), a rare interview with Beyonce ahead of her 40th birthday, a compelling piece by ⁦Amanda Knox⁩ on the way culture and “journalism” insists on forever linking her with a crime she didn’t commit, the slippery slope of pregnancy forums, Drumstix in a Biskit are back (!!), a podcast about the dark world of memes, and more.

Feeling anxious, angry, unsettled or all of the above about this week’s IPCC report? ICYMI, or you’re lost on what to do next, here’s some much needed advice on how to fight climate change with optimism, and some ideas for what you can do right now (anything!!)

If you’re a millennial who was an obsessive blog reader and you’re still mourning the death of RSS feeds, you’ll feel all the feels reading this

Joy! A new essay by David Sedaris has landed in the New Yorker

Love this list of good advice for writers, which overlaps about 85% with “good advice for anyone”

Who’s the Harriet in your life?

Yes you do need to waste an hour playing the Cookie Monster version of Pac-Man this afternoon

An impressive, precise and compelling piece by ⁦Amanda Knox⁩ on the way culture and “journalism” insists on forever linking her with a crime she didn’t commit

The notoriously private Beyoncè has given a rare interview ahead of her 40th birthday for Harper’s Bazaar and an even rarer insight into her life. She discusses the choices she’s made around self-care, transitioning from focusing on building her legacy, to focusing on working on herself in the last decade

No, you don’t have to be “like a family” with your co-workers

This Twitter thread shows every celebrity that's appeared on Miami Vice and it's honestly mind blowing

The rumours are true, make space in the pantry; Drumstix In A Biskit are back baby

Is White Lotus the best satire of white privilege on TV rn?

The slippery slope of pregnancy forums

Everyone at Slice HQ is obsessed with this podcast from WIRED that discusses how memes have gone from harmless pictures of cats to images that can lead people down a rabbit hole of radicalization, misinformation, and extremism

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

LIZZIE —>
Watching (or not watching)
: I tried Paris Hilton’s cooking show on Netflix Cooking with Paris so you don’t have to. Go use that 25 minutes to do something real good
Wasting time: Watching yoga parody videos on TikTok. We’ve all had this teacher and been petrified of doing this in class
Listening: To this TikTok jam to get me pumped up to do most things this week


VANESSA —>
Watching:
Shiva Baby at the cinema (a social satire set at a Jewish wake in New York City; seriously good!!) and Hacks on Stan (Jean Smart is a marvel).
Lusting over: These rose coloured walls, this sofa and wall art, absolutely everything in this converted church, this Japanese-inspired home in Hackney (that orange kitchen bench ), everything about this Brooklyn apartment, the light in this dreamy retreat
Cooking: Elizabeth Hewson’s garlic prawn burgers, immediately