February Internet Rabbits (Links)

Last night at dinner, one of the seven-year-old twins turned to me and said, with the blunt force of accusation, “Mama, I don’t know your life!”

I reacted well, given that I never know what they are talking about. I asked if he had any questions. He did.

“Did you swim in the far deep sea?”

I did, I said. I did.

It is March, which means it’s a good time to tell you about some of the things you missed on the internet in February.

There were crazy, these things.

First, a poll? For my new Substack? To click on?

1. First the missing bolts on Alaska Airlines, now the maggots on Delta? Don’t fly again, people.

2. I was a music theater dinner act by Alex Dobrenko` is a ROMP. Why do we do musical mystery theater anyway, hey?

It’s the type of thing that’d make my Soviet parents go ‘huh’ and my even more Soviet grandpa very angry. “They’re pretending? That something bad happened? So they can solve it?” 

3. Thanks to Esmé Weijun Wang for sharing this heart-wrenching song. Prepare your tissues.

4. things I worry my therapist is writing down

6. the most likely ways I will die in the hudson valley!

7. Don’t just talk about unplugging, actually unplug by Tsh Oxenreider

8. A timeline of Amelia Earhart Articles throughout History. It’s funny, I swear.

9. Refinery29 founder Christene Barberich on thrifting:

   thrifting isn’t just discount shopping…thrifting is in fact a learned skill that supports mindfulness, empathy, sustainability, creative agency, confidence, historical appreciation/respect, local economies, FUN, and bona fide bragging rights. In a nutshell: Thrifting is good medicine, and you will always learn more about why/how it’s the future of reframing our relationship with our own style right here in this newsletter.

10. This guy reviews all the books that have won a Booker prize, in order from worst to best. His commentary is amazing, and when it gets spicy it reminds me of someone’s grandfather, three scotches in, ready to shoot a squirrel.

    This is his review of one of the best books of the 20th century, which shall remain nameless:

AKA the one I feel a bit bad about because I didn’t read the original edition – which is not a novel but a novella and a few loosely thematically related short stories and fragments. The novella is what I read and I remember a kind of moody, evocative ambience, some very hard to like characters, and an overwhelming sense of seriousness. Make of that what you will.

Can he do my reality TV shows now?

In conclusion, here’s #11, a quote from Jane Ratcliffe, read in this post by Jeannine Ouellette

I am nothing if not a litany of the kindnesses that others have shown me: every great thing that has happened in my life is the result of someone’s kindness and generosity of spirit. Because I know how life-altering kindness can be, I try to pay it forward every chance I get.

Til next month!

Claire

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