- This real-life street style Instagram account—the brainchild of photographer Johnny Cirllo—is pretty fun. (Instagram)
- And these portraits of Americans in debt are pretty affecting. (Kottke)
- I can’t get over this 1977 footage of an 108 year-old woman recounting what life was like in Victorian England. (YouTube)
- Here’s the very moving story of how one family dealt with post-9/11 grief. (Atlantic)
- I am so down for this: the 10 best fiction and nonfiction books about cults. (Town & Country)
- Have you listened to this week’s episode of Everything is Fine yet? We’re chatting with Sassy legend Christina Kelly. (Apple Podcasts)
- I am loving the academic satire The Chair, starring the always likable Sandra Oh. (Netflix)
- This crazy 19th-century Florida sect believed the earth was hollow and that we lived inside of it. I love a good story about an utopian community, and this one doesn’t disappoint. (Messy Nessy Chic)
- A smart and timely piece about demise of the girlboss trope. (The Cut)
- Six classic Rolling Stones songs that illustrate the genius of drummer Charlie Watts, who died last week. (Vulture)
great links this week! The Girl Boss article led me down a rabbit hole about Wing and there is an Instagram group of ex employees there telling their stories called We Flew the Coop – fascinating!
Watching New York: creative types love experimenting with their looks….but many of these photos look like there’s something else going on. Despite smiles, the posts seem sad. Almost desperate to be seen. The photos look like there’s rebellion against something painful going on more than just folks enjoying a creative outlet.
The Chair really hits our Gen X demographic down to a T – I adored this show despite being slightly disappointed in the badass lead falling for the cute but pathetic guy even if he wears a joy division T Shirt when he looks after her kid.
Thanks for the intriguing mix of links this week! The footage of the Victorian lady gave me chills. I am always amazed at how we really are not all THAT far from the past, if that makes sense. In 5 years we will be closer to the year 2070 than 1970…!
On another note, I watched 3 episodes of The Chair and it just didn’t appeal to me. While I adore Sandra Oh, I didn’t think much of the writing and it just wasn’t particularly funny.
I have come this close to commenting on one of their posts about it, but I’m sure I’d be okay boomered.
Thanks for the list of books on cults! I’ve also been meaning to get to Lauren Hough’s book, “Leaving is Not the Hardest Part,” about growing up in an abusive Christian cult. Hough is a great writer and very funny. Warning: Hough is a lesbian, and there’s lots of sexual content, both straight and gay, abusive and non-abusive. So if that’s not your bag, skip it. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/989032183/after-growing-up-in-a-cult-lauren-hough-freed-herself-by-writing-the-truth
Also, could you do a post on some of those baggy pants they’re wearing on the Watching New York account? That’s just what I need for the Texas summer — which is right now, continuing through October.
Kim – thank you so much for the very powerful and thought-provoking article about the family dealing with grief after 9/11. I began reading it this morning (when I should have been doing other things!) and couldn’t put it down. You think it’s going one way, and it goes further and becomes even more meaningful.
I’ve been following WatchingNewYork for about a year, I guess. It really should be called WatchingTheTattooedYouthOfBrooklyn. It’s an entertaining account, just poorly named. I imagine these young people will cringe 40 years from now when they see what they wore in their young adult-hood. I know I cringe when I see what I wore in the 80’s as a young adult. Shoulder pads and Hammer pants, anyone? Hey, I thought I looked gooood!
Or how about SeenOnBedfordAvenue?
I signed up to follow Cirillo on Instagram and noted what CS noted. Everyone is young. Hopefully an older photographer will step up and fill that void! As a Texan I want to apologize for what is going on in my state. The tiny upside is the recent rulings have invigorated those on the ground working for voter registration and plans for getting people to the polls for the next election. When I get back home I will be among them. How not?
it is disturbing to see what is going on in Texas. Deputizing citizens to act as bounty hunters by giving cash – how do this turn out? Are neighbors, friends, angry ex’s going to turn people in? So horrible for health care providers, women , and especially those with out the means to go to another state. You know that many many Christian woman have secretly gotten abortions. How can those out of state help? Are there that many Texas that really think this is a good idea? How about just offering free Birth control? I am ranting, I am just so angry.
It looks like both Dems and Repubs will be using it as a wedge issue to fundraise. Do you know what drives me crazy? When both parties and the media refer to doctors who perform abortions as Abortion Doctors. We don’t call surgeons who remove gallbladders as Gallbladder Removal Doctors. It’s just negging and bothsiderism because women apparently don’t deserve “healthcare” or agency over their own bodies. I think that Texas has shown the way for all red states to deny women. Next up, they’ll try to deny women the vote.
And the kicker is that this decision was made by men who couldn’t even deal with being forced to wear masks for a few months (or get a simple shot in the arm) to protect life.
Heather Cox Richardson had an excellent newsletter on why Texas turned citizens into bounty hunters (it horrifies me to even type that)––it well worth the read and answered several question I had about the mess, but be forewarned it scared the living daylights out of me. This is really, really deep hatred of women plus a really, really strong desire for political power.
Thanks for noting this, CW. It was very interesting. Here’s the link if anyone is interested: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-3-2021
Great mix of links, Kim. Just wish Johnny Cirillo’s street style Instagram had at least a few photos of older women and men. Scrolled thru a lot of his photos and no one appears to be older than their 30s.