> 170: Family whistles, before TikTok, only real cinéastes know about this
Merchants in Motion, Loes Heerink
Howdy. Here's some art, ideas, and internet for you:
Newsletter Fave Edith Zimmerman's comics about the first two weeks with her new daughter, Georgia, are really special.
How to perfect the New York City street. Spoiler: It involves fewer cars.
Love the idea of a family whistle.
Look up a word based on what you want a word to do and a new-to-me word game.
Before there was TikTok, there was Vine, and it was good.
Have you heard of this obscure movie franchise called The Fast and the Furious? Maybe known only to true film auteurs. After making it a decade-plus without seeing a single one, our household has been slowly making our way through them and you know what? They're entertaining. You heard it here first.
Looking forward to: The return of "Party Down" even though Lizzy Caplan is going to be off doing something else cool, Kate "Forever35" Spencer's rom com novel, being destroyed by the new Adele album tomorrow, watching the new Downton Abbey movie on a plane, as Downton Abbey movies are perfect plane movies.
Before we go any further, I want to publicly acknowledge
that I love every person in this room. I mean it.
We’ve traveled from all over to be here, and I love
each of you, all of you, every last one of you, except
Harold, but the rest of you I love fervently
and without limitation. It’s important that you believe
this is a boundless love, rhapsodic, without timidity
or hesitation, because everyone is deserving
of compassion, absolutely everyone, just
not Harold, but for the rest of you, this affection
is perfect, unconditional and free. Not “unconditional”
with air quotes around it, not unconditional
like a gatekeeper in the garden saying, Look
at the fruit but do not shovel it into thy weird little face,
saying, Love me and none other, saying, The first born,
the locust, the welt of grief I’ve pressed upon your back;
it is a truly unstoppable wave of tenderness
that doesn’t traffic in punishment or retribution.
—Matthew Olzmann
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Bye,
Laura