Hey Toasters, hope you had a good week! What are you reading as you head into the holiday weekend? I am finishing Trip by our own Mindy Hung, and I’m about halfway through One Thing Stolen by my friend and thesis adviser Beth Kephart. I’ve got a road trip this weekend and am thinking of loading up the Kindle before I go, so feel free to drop your best recs in the comments.
Most Important News of the Week: Mallory wanted to catch a kitten. AND THEN: VICTORY
Nicole and Mallory ranked the miserable marriages of Modern Family.
Shrill and Mallory yelled about Mad Max.
Anna North told us about her childhood filmmaking career.
There was a new Dad Mag for the month of May, featuring Matt Lubchansky’s actual, literal dad! (P.S. If you didn’t already know, you can buy some of Matt’s prints here; it’s always a good time to do that.)
Sulagna Misra explained why fandom is sometimes better than the real thing (WHERE IS MY HELEN CHO/SAM WILSON FIC, SULAGNA)
Kate Slater on Pat Gardiner, everyone’s least favorite L.M. Montgomery heroine: “Pat is Cathy from Flowers in the Attic, if Cathy wanted to stay in the attic for the rest of her life and the sibling incest was only vaguely subtextual. Pat is a compliant Bertha Mason Rochester, putting out fires and begging her husband to lock the door behind him. Pat is the warning story told late at night by Hufflepuff first-year students whispering between their beds.”
How To Tell If You Are In A Famous Opera <– The Metropolitan Opera [verified check mark] shared this on FB and I was pretty chuffed, pls congratulate me
“If Shakespeare’s Richard III Were Your Coworker, he would take an instant dislike to anyone in the office named Brittany”
Sometimes I feel like Mallory digs this stuff up just to traumatize me.
Emily Dickinson went to the beach, and I wish I’d gone, too.
I am going to see mountains this weekend. Small blue ones. They are not the Cascades, but any mountains are preferable to the mountainless existence I normally lead. I hope you all have a beautiful weekend, and I will see you next week!
