Hello friends and Happy Sunday!
I hope you’re entering the end of January feeling happy and productive, still in your January intentions and resolutions. These days feel filled with challenges and beauty, sunshine and chill.
I don’t even know how I’m feeling this week? That’s got to be ok to say… sometimes just the day to day is enough feeling. Right?
Here’s some of the superficial Internet. I didn’t make it, I just listed it for you.
• I distinctly remember saving up my paycheck from my ice cream scooping job in high school so I could buy myself an outfit to wear after prom from Abercrombie and Fitch. I bought a pair of forest green parachute pants with orange details and a navy linen kinda boho embroidered shirt. I dunno. It was the Abercrombie & Fitch hay-day. We all went nuts for that mess, remember? Well… their CEO is now 70 years old. So there’s that: The Aging of Abercrombie & Fitch
• They’re giving all of our traffic secrets away: New Traffic Apps May Be Pushing Cars Into Residential Areas
• The last thing you need: Twitter While You Were Away. Isn’t it all happening while we are away anyway?
• Inventing A Better Cat Call. I’ll take a sonnet or an edible arrangement, please and thank you.
• Would I come off as too defensive if I said that noooo, I don’t have a Tinder profile but still find the whole madness fascinating? Reasons Why Your Tinder Profile Is Horrible.
• 12 Historical Women Who Gave No F*cks. Go read this. I’ll wait here, slow-blinking… and we can discuss when you return.
• Grab a cake or grab a spoon: Chocolate Frosting.
• It’s really inspiring to look through a different lens (and hold pictures in your hand). Un-Instagram: Fujimax Instax Camera
• I’m going to see the movie American Sniper tonight. People have thoughts about it. Here are some: I Served In Iraq and American Sniper Gets It Right. But It’s Still Not The Warm Film We Need.
• RIP: An Ode To SkyMall As It Files For Bankruptcy.
• I could legit use the Bracelet Assistant and I want a Jumping Hot Dog just for fun. Here are 12 of SkyMalls Weirdest Products.
Have more coffee. Have a great day. The two are inextricably linked.
xo Joy
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I love the instax camera! Hope you’ve (and anyone reading this comment!) has had a wonderful weekend! x
Love the list of 12 women. To celebrate their lives, I believe I will give no F’s today. And I bet you looked superfly after the prom!!
I found that Abercrombie article totally fascinating but also completely disturbing. I was ALL about A&F in high school and I can’t believe I was so blind to their marketing. Is some brand that I love still tricking me like that? Or am I smarter now? On the flip side, that kind of evil psychological brilliance is exactly what attracted me to advertising in college. SO MANY THOUGHTS. Also the photos with the article are brilliant.
Also as a Louisianian living in Minnesota, your picture is making me feel warm, so thanks for that.
One of my favorite things to do on a plane is look at that SkyMall mag. So sad.
That mounted squirrel head is disturbing, just as much as those thousand dollar half zombie statues crawling out of the ground. Has anyone ever bought one?
Happy Sunday, Joy!
Thanks for the link for the frosting! Trying that :)
I saw American Sniper with my family. I think it was good to go with a group because I believe it’s important to be able to appreciate the movie and the characters but to have an open critical conversation about it as well. I also saw Foxcatcher last night, which is such a contrast. It’s a very uncomfortable movie, but it’s very interesting. Great links!
http://www.allboldeverythng.com
Love a Lady that can do a better job of it than a man. Most of us, Right !! ;)
LOVE all of those women. God, Buzzfeed is so on top of things.
https://www.youtube.com/sparklesandsuch26
A&F story is disturbing. The chocolate frosting looks so yummy. Will use on my next cake!! We will be hit with a snowstorm starting tomorrow so I know I will be baking.
Also Hazel Scott, whose general badassery included a scholarship to Juilliard at age 8 and the ability to play two pianos better than I can play one..
Black & White are Beautiful – Hazel Scott on 2 Gr…: https://youtu.be/1HdnjTCMzpg
Love the article on the 12 women – great stuff!
Oh the Abercrombie & Fitch days… the thing I’ll never be able to get over is how it’s still such a “thing” in Europe. It makes me giggle every time I see someone wearing it here. They could be aged 10-40. True story.
Happy Sunday, Joy! For a laugh (or a cry, depending on how you look at it), check out the instagram account “tindernightmares”!
Pretty sure I had the same pair of pants. The only thing I’ve ever purchased from A&F and that was only because I had a gift certificate. But they were amazing pants!
Love.
Once when I was in college in Philadelphia a young kid passed by my group of 4 females downtown. He paused, looked at us and said, “excuse me ladies, you all look very pretty today” – then he biked away. I was both shocked and impressed.
All those SkyMall items were always so innovative and interesting.
Nice links, girl!! Hope you’re not reading this because you’re living your life instead of reading comments. :-)
So proud of women who have the guts to step out of the box,
Great post! ;)
https://justsem.wordpress.com/
You don’t need a Bracelet Assistant, you can accomplish the same thing by using a roach clip on a stick!