WHAT'S GOOD
But if I went for a run, I ended up swearing under my breath and praying for it to just end already. It was not relaxing. Making playlists of the best saxophone solos from 1978-1983? For me, that was relaxing.
Ass-Out Pants: Who Wore Them Better?
THE AWL
It’s impossible to imagine DLR showing subtle restraint within the realm of assless pants options; Prince knew what he was doing. Prince always knew what he was doing.
I Always Wanted to Have a Baby… Until I Realized I Didn’t
BRIT + CO
When I made the list, I had no desire to be a mother, but I thought having a child was something I was supposed to do in order to succeed at growing up, and that I wouldn’t be a real adult until that all-important life event was crossed off the list along with travel, gardening, and naked swimming...
The Greatest, and Trashiest, Celebrity Memoirs
BROOKLYN MAGAZINE
Reading a trashy celebrity memoir is like sitting down to a glorious buffet of sparking wine (not quite champagne, sorry) and your favorite packaged snack cakes with a chatty acquaintance who you can’t quite believe is telling you all of this...
One Actual, One Psychic: Mike Leigh’s Career Girls
MEDIUM
I was finally living somewhere that was big and interesting and important enough to reflect back to me in popular culture!
Reading Rhys: Good Morning, Midnight
MEDIUM
In honor of Reading Rhys week, here’s a little story about my history and relationship with Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight:
Sing This, Not That: Better Karaoke For One and All
THE AWL
Karaoke is a team sport; your audience is just as important as your performance. If this weren’t the case, we’d all just be singing into hairbrushes in the privacy of our own bathrooms.
True Friends Left Behind
KELSAYWHAT WEEKLY
I just finished watching Stranger Things, and I, like everyone else, fixated on Barb, her righteously rolling eyes taking no nonsense behind those giant glasses.