What are you doing this weekend? Tonight, I’m looking forward to watching “Oh, Mary!,” a dark comedy play about Mary Todd Lincoln. It’s going to be interesting and I can’t wait to see Cole Escola actually perform. You can also find the previous Cup of Joe Holiday Gift Guides here as well as the Big Salad Gift Guide featuring 3 Friends. I hope you get good results. Here are some links from around the web.
Want to enter our Jeremy Allen-White lookalike contest?
I love the cable detail on this sweater. And this skirt is lovely too!
A true vegetarian Thanksgiving. (NYTimes gift link)
How the Irish came to dominate pop culture. Columnist Seamus O’Reilly said Ireland benefits from being “everyone’s second favorite country”. Author Roisin Lanigan says shows and books often portray “a certain kind of Irishness”. Overall, it seems like they’re hot and sad.” (NYMag)
20 Cookie Swap Recipes.
Would you like to make tater tot quiche?
“When I was a teenager, I would take the train to record stores to look for rare things,” says director Don Hertzfeldt. “Spotify is much more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. What was important was being able to go out and feel like I was hunting.” That’s how I feel about Netflix vs. Blockbuster Video. Masu. So you were going to drive to Blockbuster with all your cousins and siblings on December 26th and fight over which movie to rent and watch as a family? Now it was to live!
This book is really fun.
What a great Tony Soprano impression.
Cold swimming under the ice can seem very claustrophobic.
John Krasinski was named People’s Sexiest Man Alive and Hunter Harris thinks: He could very well be the sexiest man on the campus of a small private university in the Midwest. He could be the sexiest guy at Pottery Barn Outlet buying big lamps for a lot of money. No, John Krasinski wasn’t the sexiest man alive in 2024. He wasn’t even the sexiest man in the office. (That was David Wallace.) John Krasinski isn’t even the sexiest man in his family. That would be his brother-in-law, Stanley Tucci. ”
Hahahaha.
Plus 3 comments from readers:
Emily has this to say about where you are in your parenting journey: “I saw something really cool the other day: reframing the empty nest phase as an opening the door phase and orienting parenting so that that is the end goal. Your home has an open door that allows your grown children to come and go through text messages, phone calls, and in-person visits. ”
Kara says of your humble wishes for humanity: “I’m 34 I wasn’t diagnosed with autism until I was a year old, and when the grocery cart was empty it was so noisy and even bounced because pushing the cart into the blacktop felt like nails in my hands and ears. I always had trouble returning carts. Everyone has experienced this. I didn’t know that I was a piece of lazy garbage.After I was diagnosed, I started to realize what I had been suffering from. When I was checking out, the clerk asked, “Do you need help?” Suddenly I realized that I had done so. I said, “Yeah, well, I have autism and my cart is pretty wobbly. Can someone please push it while I cover my ears?” And she said, said, “Yes!” of course! ‘When we got to the car and the guy took the cart away, I got in the front seat and sobbed. This was the first time I didn’t have to return the cart myself and set my nervous system on fire. It wasn’t a big deal for them to help me, but it was a huge deal for me to know and ask for it. Here’s the TL;DR: If you’ve ever wondered, “Why can’t I do it?”, please stop. Don’t finish that sentence. The world is incredibly difficult, and we don’t always know what challenges someone is facing. Therefore, if possible, please return your cart in its entirety. But assuming something negative about a person just because they don’t do what *you* think is easy actually makes the world a tougher place. ”
Here’s what Cindy says about your humble wish for humanity: “I’m reminded of the sage advice our dear Katherine Newman gave in an NPR interview: ‘(Being an etiquette columnist) has influenced every aspect of my life.’ After 10 years of writing an etiquette column, I find it really difficult to deal with the otherness of others. All questions about etiquette can be summed up in this: You don’t like someone’s wind chime. Someone puts on lipstick at the table. Would I invite my gay cousin-in-law to my wedding? The gist of all the questions is that people are different from me and I can’t stand it. And I have to tell you, you have to be patient. It’s the human condition. You have to deal with it with as much grace as humanly possible. “That’s more grace than you’re currently mustering.” I rely on this advice all the time, especially when navigating life with twin toddlers. ”
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