The Best Things I've seen on the Internet Lately: top picks and fave finds
Some Good Articles
Have you read this one yet? Fascinating. We are trained to believe that money gives us security, but what if that’s wrong? What if cultivating relationships is the key? Intriguing, but also her life sounds very tiring and scary. I couldn’t do what this lady is up to, but I admire it…
You KNOW I love an art authentication story…
This idea holds more and more appeal. My husband essentially has a dumb phone and he seems quite happy. Losing access to Google Maps would leave me lost (Ha ha). Maybe I could just start by deleting the social media. Huh, maybe I am convincing myself to do this right here as I type. Am I going to try going without social media on my phone for a month? Is this happening? Am I committing to doing this right now? (To be clear, I can still post and view from a computer…) Okay! I am doing it. Ha! Exhilarating. Terrifying. I am gonna dumb down my phone starting right now! (for a month). Eeeeek.
Anyone with me?!
Fleabaggery
Oh my god, have you all watched Fleabag? It’s so effing good, Season Two especially! Anyway, whomst amongst us has not gone to the hairdresser after a grim breakup and dramatically had it chopped all off, only to have the hairdresser spin you around in the chair and say, WITHOUT IRONY, “I call this the ‘Bon Jovi’.” As someone who longs for and cannot pull off a pixie haircut, but keeps trying… I’m here to tell you, it’s fine. It grows back!
This commercial surprised me and validated some of my own feelings…
Reels
(I know, I just had an epiphany about lessening my social media use above, but I’d already prepped this part of the newsletter when I wrote that so…)
I know I recently rhapsodized about the joys of the Buy Nothing Group… and I stand by it — but this reel is also very real…
The comments on this one are almost as good as the video
The purity of a grown man, so utterly twisted up…
Come chat with me in person!
I’ll be at the Robert Plante Greenhouse signing books with a whole swathe of other other amazing Canadian authors on Sunday February 23rd! It’s a really cool location where you can breathe in tropical jungle-iness and support the CanLit Scene! Come on over and say hi… There’s a rumour that one of the many Tector Sisters might make an appearance!
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P.P.S — Not going to a Super Bowl party this Sunday, but I will be hosting my own small Superb Owl event!
Sign me up, Amy! Me? I’m going with the dumbest phone known to me, an ancient Fischer-Price model on tiny wheels with a fake rotary dial that goes “ding-ding-ding-ding!“ as I drag it across the floor! That dinging sound is easily as intelligent as anything I’ve heard on my smart phone ... and friendlier too. Cheerio to you and yours!
OMG. Dave and I say, 'It's French, Claire!' all the time.
I LOOK LIKE A PENCIL.