Fun Things to Click On
They say that sharing is caring… and let’s be honest, I go down a LOT of rabbit holes during the course of a day (sorry, Michael).
Week of January 27, 2020:
“The Sound of Heartbreak and Celebration happening simultaneously”
I listened to Poliça’s “Wandering Star” a lot last year and developed a healthy respect for frontwoman Channey Leaneagh. The line above is also one of the most beautiful descriptions of an album that I’ve ever heard (courtesy of Andrew Flanagan of Rolling Stone).
On Picking a life partner, Pt. 2
I once wrote the assertion that real, deep love isn’t the high-highs and sparkles, but the trust, compatibility, and attention that you invest to get you through hard times, the boring times, the times when you’re too distracted and caught up in your own life to fix a moment into memory.
…Or, as Tim Urban puts it, something “built not out of anything poetic, but out of 20,000 mundane Wednesdays.” Tim, I love you for that.
Week of January 20, 2020:
Hey, dancing is pretty fun!
This was an astoundingly beautiful dance to watch. And I wouldn’t even have been that into the music on its own, which makes me all the more impressed by how much it moved me.
Week of January 13, 2020:
The Impact bias: Why our life is a sum of All Our Mundane Wednesdays
I love Wait But Why. Let me repeat: I love Wait But Why. Tim Urban has such an incredible knack for putting time, mindsets, and the human experience into perspective. Through stick figures. I mean… come on.
(Also, occasionally his posts make me cry. Not this one, but man, they can hit home.)
I stole this photo of Charlie Cunningham from here.
Charlie Cunningham’s “Force of Habit” …Swoon. Those lyrics, though.
Has anyone else noticed I’m apparently obsessed with the way our habits shape us? …No? Just me? Okay, great. (Permanent Way is pretty good, too.)
You know that it's a force of habit
Take something from it
You called, they came
They're here to stay…
Week of January 6, 2020:
Heyyyyy, it’s a new year! Let’s get back to our regularly-scheduled programming, shall we?
Matt Shirley at his finest.
All the charts you never knew you Needed
Matt Shirley makes a chart a day. In doing so, he gives me a laugh a day. I love charts like this, and silly ways of organizing the world. May I never stop seeking them out.
Week of April 1, 2019:
(Work-wise, everything hurts and I’m dying. No fun things to click on this week.)
Week of March 25, 2019:
Because Where you live matters
The Opportunity Atlas uses anonymous data from 20 million Americans, following them from their childhood to their mid-thirties to answer the following question: which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance at a better life than their parents?
Week of March 18, 2019:
Sarah Kay’s “B (If I should have a daughter)”
“Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and
always apologize when you’ve done something wrong
but don’t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining,
your voice is small but don’t ever stop singing.”
Drake on Cake: I die.
Joy the Baker won my heart at fifteen with her recipe for vegan pumpkin bread (which is 100 times better than the non-vegan version). Now she’s winning my Instagram account. Favorites: ALL OF THEM.
Week of March 11, 2019:
Charty Party: Cards against Humanity for Nerds Who Like Charts and Silliness (In other words…Please take my money).
A game where you turn ridiculous things into charts. What’s not to love?? Estimated arrival: June 2019. Mark your calendars now.
J.D. McClatchy on love and attention (brought to you by the inimitable Maria Popova).
“Love is something else again. As mysterious as are the ways of desire, and as disconcerting its effects, love is desire raised to a higher power. It can be as consuming as desire, but it lasts longer. Love is the quality of attention we pay to things.”
TFW YOu Discover that Lana Del Rey Turned Your Favorite T.S. Eliot Poem Into a Spoken Word Song…
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose garden.
T.S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton”
Because of Course, we need to explore the *nuance* of Muppet Typology.
Chris Riley breaks down Muppet Typology into three second-order personality tendencies, based on how we react to others: Contrarian Muppets, who react by becoming more strongly the opposite of others; Sympathizing Muppets, who react by becoming like others; and finally, Stubborn Muppets, who are what they are, and nothing and no one will change them.
This cover of Birdy’s Cover of Bon Iver’s Song “Skinny Love” (Whew) never fails to give me chills.
Let’s have a moment of appreciation for the judges’ reactions. Take that, doubters.