The Best Things I've Seen on the Internet Lately: top picks and fave finds
Some Good Articles
I couldn’t click on this article fast enough… I have JUST sent my agent (boy, I still get a thrill writing that!) a draft of my revised “Fantasy Island Meets White Lotus, but less incest and more ghosts” manuscript. I provide an early sneak peek here, but it’s been revised and re-oriented a LOT since then…
Quite a few stays seem plagued by the spirits of children. Sickness claimed many young guests, such as seven-year-old Mary Masters who died of cholera in 1846 at The Shelbourne in Dublin, a young girl who succumbed to polio on the eighth floor of the Hotel Alex Johnson in South Dakota, and a child named Rosalia Fihn who passed from typhoid fever in 1908 at The Manor in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Their misplaced items and laughter have supposedly lingered around rooms still rentable today.
This is a fun Reddit slideshow of photographs of people who look just like people in old paintings. We were once in a woodland inn in the Ardennes and there was an old smoky portrait of a little boy who looked uncannily like one of my nephews. It was a weird and eerie moment.
This story gives me the heebie jeebies. Is anyone happy about giant insects , especially over 5,000 of them packed into SYRINGES? Ick.
"Investigations revealed that the test tubes had been designed to sustain the ants for up to two months and evade airport security detection," the KWS said in a statement, describing this as "premeditated and well-executed".
Happy Easter! The title of this article alone is fun.
My computer recently prompted me to "look back at your memories!" along with a photo of a woman, who was not me, sitting down on a nondescript swath of pavement, surrounded by garbage. Now, while I did not personally attend the Grand National at Aintree, just outside of Liverpool, last year, it is true that I have fond memories of my time spent going through photos of that event. The Grand National is ostensibly a horse race, but after conducting my second detailed survey of Getty Images, I can conclusively say that it is actually an excuse for English people to get extremely drunk and sit on nondescript swaths of pavement whilst surrounded by garbage. And sometimes in shrubs. Here is the evidence.
Reels
(Warning, when you click, you’re taken to Instagram)
Oh boy, Days of Our Lives, Another World (Cass Winthorp FTW) and General Hospital — that was the viewing schedule when we were home sick. Days of our Lives was always the most outrageous… including demon possession and buried-alive-ness. These clips really brought back the memories. I think I could tell you about every one of these storylines, since they dragged on for months, if not years…
Bird Nerdery
OMG these inept librarians are beyond adorable!
P.S. I’m in Australia! The flight was long but not horrific. We’re currently in Brisbane. There is sunshine and warmth. I got called “mate” before even leaving the airport! They have cool Ibis-y birds that tourists think are very amazing, but are basically pigeons and the Aussies call them “bin chickens”. I have not seen a kangaroo yet, but I am on HIGH alert.
Happy holiday Amy