lip tint, monkey hot tubbing, 2 of 300 arguments
I'm breaking format this month to offer you a list of things I've found pleasing and/or meaningful:
1. Laura Olin's newsletter, which is a list of lovely and/or meaningful things she sends out once a week. (Yesterday's edition inspired me here...) Sign up, you won't regret it.
2. Matthew Ogle's newsletter, which is simply a short, modern poem every day. I know every day sounds daunting, but they're short! and I find I'm always excited to read them.
3. Sarah Manguso's 300 Arguments. A slim 4 x 5 volume, made up of 300 small "arguments," or kernels of truth really, such as: I've written whole books in order to avoid writing other books. Or: I wish I could ask the future whether I should give up or keep trying. Then again, what if trying, even in the face of certain failure, feels as good as accomplishing? What if it's even better? And here we are again.
I keep flipping backwards and forwards, finding new favorite arguments. I want to buy a dozen copies of this book and give it to all my writer/artist friends.
4. Tata Harper's volumizing cheek and lip tint. Is it in fact volumizing? I don't think so. Not that I've noticed. But it gives me the barest bit of "natural" color, breezily smeared on lip and cheek, that allows me to appease my vanity just slightly while maintaining the illusion of not giving a fuck.
5. Jane Fonda's mug shot in t-shirt form, which I've been wearing to the office under all the overalls.
6. Speaking of the office, which, yes, my job has continued, I am still employed wheeeeeeeee...! I want to brag about the perfect Ann Demeulemeester blazer I found at Wasteland, but it feels rude since I can't provide a link. If you must, you may picture me looking like this.
7. Twitter Demetricator, a browser extension that strips all the numbers out of Twitter—follower counts, retweets, dates, all of it. Makes the whole shebang feel a lot less competitive, and also somehow less compelling. Not a bad thing. (David Zweig wrote a great piece about Twitter Demitricator for the New Yorker. I like to imagine I'm one of those rare breeds he references "who are both motivated enough to make their own experience healthier and secure enough to not care what others think of them." HA.)
8. A doc about Japanese snow monkeys, available on Amazon Prime. It's got intrigue and heartbreak and unconventional love, as well as a whole lot of monkey hot tubbing. (It was this piece about monkey hot tubbing in the NY Times that inspired me and R to dig deeper... Aaaaaand now I wanna hot tub, like, now.)
xoxo,
Laramie
1. Laura Olin's newsletter, which is a list of lovely and/or meaningful things she sends out once a week. (Yesterday's edition inspired me here...) Sign up, you won't regret it.
2. Matthew Ogle's newsletter, which is simply a short, modern poem every day. I know every day sounds daunting, but they're short! and I find I'm always excited to read them.
3. Sarah Manguso's 300 Arguments. A slim 4 x 5 volume, made up of 300 small "arguments," or kernels of truth really, such as: I've written whole books in order to avoid writing other books. Or: I wish I could ask the future whether I should give up or keep trying. Then again, what if trying, even in the face of certain failure, feels as good as accomplishing? What if it's even better? And here we are again.
I keep flipping backwards and forwards, finding new favorite arguments. I want to buy a dozen copies of this book and give it to all my writer/artist friends.
4. Tata Harper's volumizing cheek and lip tint. Is it in fact volumizing? I don't think so. Not that I've noticed. But it gives me the barest bit of "natural" color, breezily smeared on lip and cheek, that allows me to appease my vanity just slightly while maintaining the illusion of not giving a fuck.
5. Jane Fonda's mug shot in t-shirt form, which I've been wearing to the office under all the overalls.
6. Speaking of the office, which, yes, my job has continued, I am still employed wheeeeeeeee...! I want to brag about the perfect Ann Demeulemeester blazer I found at Wasteland, but it feels rude since I can't provide a link. If you must, you may picture me looking like this.
7. Twitter Demetricator, a browser extension that strips all the numbers out of Twitter—follower counts, retweets, dates, all of it. Makes the whole shebang feel a lot less competitive, and also somehow less compelling. Not a bad thing. (David Zweig wrote a great piece about Twitter Demitricator for the New Yorker. I like to imagine I'm one of those rare breeds he references "who are both motivated enough to make their own experience healthier and secure enough to not care what others think of them." HA.)
8. A doc about Japanese snow monkeys, available on Amazon Prime. It's got intrigue and heartbreak and unconventional love, as well as a whole lot of monkey hot tubbing. (It was this piece about monkey hot tubbing in the NY Times that inspired me and R to dig deeper... Aaaaaand now I wanna hot tub, like, now.)
xoxo,
Laramie
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