Hello friends!
Happy Easter! Happy Spring!
How are you feeling this week? Standing with both feet on the ground? Wearing a good scarf? Beating back allergies? drinking too much coffee? Me too. All of the same.
Last week I was in Nashville. This week I’m eating and coffee-ing my way through Philadelphia. I’ve run away from home. That’s the long and short of it.
(picture above from HubBub Coffee.)
What happened in the world and on the Internet this week? These things, I think:
• Amazon’s new Dash Button. Household items, reordered at the touch of a button. But doesn’t this take away from standing in line at the grocery store on a Friday night buying a bottle of wine, tampons, cat liter, and a box of mac and cheese? I feel like there’s real glory in that. Now… either I’m getting old or I’m just in a constant state of “who are we and what have we become”. The Horror of Amazon’s New Dash Button.
• “As we increasingly outsource our memories to devices, we may be forgetting the pleasures of imperfect recall.” Remembrance of Things Lost.
• Completely heartbreaking and totally inspiring: Teenagers Facing Early Death, On Their Terms.
• Ellen Pao and The Sexism You Can Quite Prove.
• Almonds are drinking all of California’s water. 10% of California’s Water Goes To Almond Farming
• Should Grown Men Use Emoji? (straight face emoji)
• Weekend read about Mad Men as we enter the final season: The Shock of the Pretty.
• Billy on the Street with David Letterman. Thank you!
• Watch a Calligrapher Perfectly Draw Famous Logos From Scratch with Pen and Ink.
• The one-way ticket to Mars you were hoping for may not be such a good idea. YA THINK!?
Have a lovely day, my friends! Catchya tomorrow!
xo Joy
Anya
Please tell me you asked the barista about his shirt, Joy? I want one, and no amount of google searching is turning it up.
joythebaker
Now I wish I would’ve!
lesfillesdemadeleine
Oh my…that piece on remembrance struck me on so many levels. Especially this weekend. I went to a concert and saw half of the crowd experience it through their camera phones (urgh…) and I struggled with the whole instagram thing during a night of sushi and wine. I snapped a picture of our table, thinking I would put it online, but then changed my mind. I didn’t want to spend part of this incredibly fun night editing a photograph, thinking of a clever caption and then checking for likes. The experience itself was so much more valuable to me. I see so many people doing this, though, some of my friends, too, and it makes me sad. Maybe I’m old school, I don’t know. I just prefer a plain road map, intelligent discussions and incomplete stories to a gps, a google search and a photo-stream.
Oh…it also reminded me that I really should continue my attempt at reading Proust. In French. Help!
Karla
Welcome to Philly! Where even those of us who don’t usually have allergies are suffering. After the Winter we had, I believe Spring has decided to strike back.
Lisa
I saw that dash button on April 1st and wondered for a minute if it wasn’t actually an April Fools joke.
Enjoy your visit to our lovely city of brotherly love. It’s a great place and the temperatures have finally warmed up a bit. I definitely second the visit to Federal Donuts. Also, John’s Roast Pork is heavenly and Marra’s for pizza is my favorite. The restaurants on E. Passyunk ave are really good too (which is where Marra’s is too). Le Virtu, Fond, Will BYOB. There are so many I can’t even list them all. Have fun!