What are you as much as this weekend? Tonight I’m excited to see Oh, Mary!, the dark-comedy play about Mary Todd Lincoln. It’s purported to be hilarious, and I can’t wait to see Cole Escola carry out in actual life. Additionally, right here’s our Cup of Jo Vacation Reward Information thus far, in addition to our Massive Salad Reward Information that includes three buddies. Hope you might have one, and listed here are just a few hyperlinks from across the net…
Would you attend a Jeremy Allen-White lookalike contest?
Love the cable element on this sweater — and oooooh this skirt!
A really vegetarian Thanksgiving. (NYTimes reward hyperlink)
How the Irish got here to rule popular culture. Columnist Séamas O’Reilly says that Eire advantages from being “everybody’s second-favorite nation.” Author Róisín Lanigan says reveals and books typically depict “a sure kind of Irish. On the entire, it appears to be, ‘They’re scorching and unhappy.’” (NYMag)
Would you make a tater tot quiche?
“Once I was a youngster, I took the practice to go to the file retailer to search out uncommon stuff,” says filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt. “Spotify is far more handy, however that wasn’t the purpose. The purpose was to get out and to really feel such as you’re searching.” I really feel this manner about Netflix vs Blockbuster Video — I imply, driving with all of your cousins and siblings to Blockbuster on December twenty sixth to duke it out over what film you had been going to hire and watch with the whole household? Now that was LIVING!
This e book is admittedly enjoyable.
What a killer Tony Soprano impression.
Chilly swimming below ice appears to be like extraordinarily claustrophobic.
John Krasinski was named Individuals’s sexiest man alive, and Hunter Harris has ideas: “He might be the sexiest man at an airport Panera. He might very nicely be the sexiest man on the campus of a small midwestern personal college. He might be the sexiest man at a Pottery Barn outlet, getting an ideal deal on a giant lamp. No, John Krasinski was not the sexiest man alive in 2024. He was not even the sexiest man in The Workplace! (That was David Wallace.) John Krasinski just isn’t even the sexiest man in his family. That’d be his brother-in-law, Stanley Tucci.”
Plus, three reader feedback:
Says Emily on what stage of parenting are you in: “I noticed one thing so candy the opposite day – reframing the ‘Empty Nest’ part because the ‘Open Door’ part, and orienting your parenting for that to be the tip purpose. Your house has an open door on your grown children to return and go, by texts, calls, and in-person visits.”
Says Kara on what’s your low-key want for humanity: “I wasn’t recognized with my autism till I used to be 34. When a grocery cart is empty, it’s SO MUCH LOUDER, and it bounces round much more. I at all times struggled to return the cart as a result of pushing it throughout blacktop felt like nails in my arms and ears. I didn’t know not everybody skilled this; I simply assumed I used to be lazy human rubbish. After I received my prognosis, I began noticing all of the issues I had been white-knuckling by. Once I was trying out on the grocery retailer, and the clerk requested, ‘Do you want assist out?’ it all of the sudden occurred to me that I DID. I mentioned, ‘Yeah, uh, I’ve autism, and the cart is fairly rattle-y; might anyone push it for me whereas I plug my ears?’ And he or she mentioned, ‘Yep! In fact!’ Once I received to my automobile, and the particular person took the cart away, I received within the entrance seat and sobbed. This was the primary time I hadn’t needed to return the cart myself and set my nervous system on hearth. It wasn’t a giant deal for them to assist me, but it surely was a HUGE DEAL for me to know to ask. Right here’s the TL;DR: When you ever end up asking, ‘Why can’t you simply —’ STOP. Don’t end that sentence. The world is extremely tough, and also you don’t at all times know what somebody’s wrestle could also be. So, if you’re ready, sure, completely return the cart. However assuming one thing destructive about an individual as a result of they aren’t doing one thing *you* discover simple, truly makes the world a harsher place.”
Says Cyndi on what’s your low-key want for humanity: “I’m reminded of the sage recommendation given by our expensive Catherine Newman in an NPR interview: ‘[Being an etiquette columnist] has influenced each single facet of my life. When you write an etiquette column for 10 years, you see that it’s actually onerous to take care of the actual fact of different individuals’s otherness. Each etiquette query might be diminished to that. You don’t like anyone’s wind chimes. Somebody places lipstick on on the desk. Do you invite your homosexual cousin-in-law to your wedding ceremony? The thrust of each query is, individuals are totally different from me, and I can’t stand it. After which the factor that it’s a must to say to all people is, it’s a must to stand it. That’s the human situation. You need to strategy it with as a lot grace as is humanly potential, which is extra grace than you’re at present mustering.’ I discover myself referring to this recommendation on a regular basis, particularly whereas navigating life with twin toddlers.”
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