
What are you up to this weekend? We are taking it very easy and running errands, but we might also go see the Oscar-nominated animated shorts. (I sobbed through Bao!) Nothing like heading to the movies on a cold winter weekend. Hope you have a good one, and here are a few fun links from around the web…
Wow! This rescue of a boy dangling from a ski resort chairlift (by a few teenagers!) is incredible.
I swear by this for smooth, glowing skin.
Does anyone really like holding hands?
I’ve watched Olivia Colman’s wonderful Oscar acceptance speech like 10 times.
These New Yorkers have had the same jobs for 50, 60, 70 years — and love it too much to stop. (NYT)
Do you name your plants?
The life-changing magic of the $15 minimum wage. “A $15 minimum wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A diet. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death.”
Fleabag season 2! Cannot wait.
“How Marie Kondo helped me sort out my gender.”
Plus, two reader comments:
Says Alison on tips for hosting a dinner party: “My friend hosts ‘Scrappy Happy Hour’ at her house for friends in her neighborhood. They all bring whatever scraps they’ve got around — half-eaten boxes of crackers, leftovers, a bottle of wine — and then the kids run amok while grownups socialize. She’ll talk about them and their text thread as ‘my scrappy moms,’ lol.”
Says Emily on the Proust Questionnaire: “I have a very common face, and people are constantly telling me that I look like someone they know. I always say, ‘Well, she sounds beautiful.'”
(Photo by James Ransom of this tomato tart. Chair lift and Marie Kondo links via Kottke.)