What are you doing this weekend? Tonight I’m going to the new thing. Greenpoint Comedy Club — will report! — and tomorrow we have the bar mitzvah of a close family friend. Excited to play arcade games and watch other people dance. I hope you have a good one, and here are some links from around the web…
Shopping for swimsuits can be… a nightmare, but I loved every suit I tried on this brand: buttons, corrugated, immersion.
I have not he laughed so hard in a long time!
What it’s like to be a 12-year-old American girl. Mira” is small for her age, but she manages to take up space laterally. She moves with a noodle-like elasticity and is prone to performing dance moves as she goes about her business: a wrist-to-wrist full-body move, an entire sequence from a Katseye music video. The first time we met, we were mid-conversation when she inexplicably did a side split, grabbed her ankles, and rolled backwards, placing her toes on the floor behind her head. “At the beginning of the year, I couldn’t do an aerial, a hands-free cartwheel, ‘and now I can do one,’ he told me, agonizingly assuming the starting position. (New Yorker)
This secret note from a sister to her brother it made me laugh.
Oh my god, how cute is he? this red and white dress? (Get 20% off with code JOANNA20.)
a reminder that it’s totally okay to be the friend who gets overly excited.
you know the Honey Black Lipstick Does that suit everyone? now they have a second shadow.
I would get married just to serve these cakes. (through Ali)
Finally, Seven cool things I saw people in New York wearing this week, and how not to look like a tourist. (Large Salad, free for everyone)
Also, three comments from readers:
Emily O. says in a thank you letter to my gynecology personal assistant: “My lovely gynecologist inspired me to be descriptive with my children when they were little: ‘Okay, I’m wiping your cheeks and you might feel cold at first.’ ‘I’m putting my hand in your sleeve, can you bring your hand closer to me?’ “I’m going to push your shoe and you might feel uncomfortable, just breathe and relax if you can.” “It’s surprisingly transferable.”
Marian says in a thank you letter to my personal gynecology assistant: “Have you seen Laura Ramoso’s treatment? amazing impression from a gynecologist? If you want to laugh so much that you cry and probably pee, give yourself a watch.”
TW: Pregnancy loss
Nish says in a thank you letter to my gynecology personal assistant: “I recently had my second heartbreaking miscarriage. While I was lying in the operating room, a nurse leaned over, squeezed my hand and whispered, ‘You are safe here.’ Her kindness was greatly appreciated.”
(Photo by Josh Hild/Unsplash).
