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okay, how are we in MAY already?! i mean, we all know how we feel about the end of april, but i feel like this month went by in a blink compared to the hellscape that was march. a couple of you guys apologized last week for sending the newsletter late or not sending one at all, and please don’t!! this is supposed to be a fun thing; don’t feel pressured or stressed about sending one out. i always love whatever you guys send; it’s like a nice little end-of-the-week treat for me to read over the weekend. is anyone watching the dreamworld live stream this weekend? i don't really know most of the lineup but i'm down for big gigantic and snakehips. not sure why it starts at 5 pm est, though. i don't see anyone i'd stay up past midnight for. five things i loved this week: pork adobo that i got from an email recipe exchange (i couldn’t find the exact recipe online, but this one is close; i used six cloves of garlic and regular white sugar. this dish was so easy, literally just tossing things in a pot and letting it simmer for an hour, and i had everything in my pantry already)
the rockin’1000 cover of “learn to fly” by the foo fighters (so i found this video a couple of years ago; in 2015, a group of 1,000 musicians in cesena played “learn to fly” in a kind of petition to get the foo fighters to perform in italy—spoiler: they did, just a couple of months later!—and it’s always made me very unreasonably emotional? and i thought about it again this week because i saw this video of a group of artists performing “times like these” by the foo fighters. this was what that “imagine” cover was supposed to be, and i think it’s partly because dave grohl always seems like a genuinely nice guy)
a parks and recreation special (i loved this so much!! it was so perfect for the moment and so well put together, considering the logistical hurdles. parks and rec is also leaving netflix and hulu in october, so i guess it’s time to rewatch the entire series)
kahoot (i know all-office zoom happy hours can be terrible and chaotic, but we play this on ours and they’re so fun; it works similar to jackbox but it’s just a massive trivia game and you can play with a lot of people...last week’s was office “fun fact” trivia and this week was guessing peoples’ baby pictures)
five things i read this week: a brutal murder, a wearable witness, and an unlikely suspect, wired (this is...so crazy. the fact that there is no discernible motive? that the suspect is her 90-year-old stepfather? that her blood was on his shirt and he was a butcher? that this piece was originally titled “the telltale heart”? kills me)
3 editors share their work-from-home routine, the everygirl (i am not and likely will not ever be the kind of person that has a daily routine, which is why i don’t think the pandemic has affected me as much as it has a lot of other people, but for some reason i really like reading other peoples’. i’m mostly impressed by the fact that these girls all wake up at 6 am and actually work out every day)
how margot robbie changed her hollywood destiny, buzzfeed news (i don’t normally care for celebrity profiles, but this one is so well-written and it’s actually really interesting! i feel like we owe a lot of mostly unproblematic celebrities apologies for the tabloid coverage of the 2000s, namely jessica simpson, britney spears, etc. it’s nice to see that today’s female celebrities are refusing that kind of treatment)
prom at home is sad, but sweet, the atlantic (this could’ve easily been a fluff piece, but instead she wonderfully captures the bittersweetness of reaching a milestone of adolescence in isolation. prom is silly and overrated, but teens deserve it because it’s universally silly and overrated. qotd: “putting on your prom dress and sitting in your house alone is not going to prom. posting it is not going to prom. facetiming is not going to prom. a tiktok video is not prom. but they still have the gesture of prom, which comes with huge expectations and so often involves disappointment anyway. people cried in prom dresses before the pandemic, and they will after it too.”
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