Next week, I have a remote audition for an upcoming reality television series. They’re looking for women of a certain age who are ready to pursue their second act. Here’s to hoping they pick me to join the second act-ers.
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After buying a few necklaces from Cartography, I suggested that they do a Saint Lucy necklace. Saint Lucy is the patron saint of writers, among other things. As it turned out, they made one, which you can buy now. It’s seen here with my Warrior Woman / Joan of Arc necklace, also by Cartography.
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Image credit: Nikola Tamindzic
My photographer friend Nikola Tamindzic remotely photographed me for his “I Am Here, and You Are Where You Are” series. As he puts it: It’s “a series of portraits of people all over the world during the coronavirus pandemic, most of whom I have never met in ‘real life.’ I am shooting these portraits remotely: me in my apartment in New York City, them out there in the world, using whatever technology we can.”
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I highly recommend reading Jill Lepore’s latest for The New Yorker: “What Our Contagion Fables Are Really About.” If you’ve not read Lepore before, now would be a great time to read Joe Gould’s Teeth.
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Today I went outside for the first time since last Monday. The air appeared to be fresher, and the smell of blooming flowers in a neighboring house seemed more pungent. There were a few cars driving a few blocks away, and there were a few people walking around, but not many. As I was walking back, I saw a man walking towards me. He was about a half a block away. As soon as he saw me, he crossed to the other side of the street. I guess you could say he was a Pandemic Gentleman.
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Art by George Townley
I love these renderings of Los Angeles by George Townley. What you see here is a dingbat, an architectural style found across the city that features living spaces above parking spaces. Found via California Sun.
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I’m reading Jerry Saltz’s How to Be an Artist. It’s smart, inspiring, and fun.
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If you’re interested in the toll being a hyper-empath takes on the creator, check out “Fiona Apple’s Art of Radical Sensitivity” by Emily Nussbaum in The New Yorker.
On the day that Jonathan Ames came over, Apple had pondered the exact nature of her work. Maybe, she suggested, she was like any other artist whose body is an instrument—a ballerina who wears her feet out or a sculptor who strains his back. Maybe she, too, wore herself out. Maybe that’s why she had to take time to heal in between projects.
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Really enjoyed “Queen & Slim.” A black “Bonnie and Clyde.” Gorgeously shot and perfectly styled. Uncle Earl and his girls offer a New Orleans highlight. Will they live or die? You’ve got to watch to find out.
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I got back into horseback riding in December 2019. Initially, it was about confidence, but then I started to realize it’s really more about trust. Trusting the horse. Trusting the trainer. Trusting yourself. Eventually, if you’re steering a 1,600-pound horse towards a jump, you better trust that you’ll make it to the other side.
(The image above isn’t me, but I took it at a horse show today.)
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Looking to buy a strip club? Look no further than this LinkedIn post. It offers a “Profitable Adult Topless Club” for sale in “Big Texas City, TX.” For $850K, you get 3,500 square feet of “Topless with Full Alcohol Club.” Gross sales were either $780K or $790K last year — it’s not entirely clear. To buy, you’ll need to put a mere 5% down, and if you want to know more, well, you’ve got to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
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This Sonny Liston documentary on Showtime is terrific. It’s based on a book by Shaun Assael. From a sharecropping family to the boxing ring to the Las Vegas mob, it seems Liston never had a chance.
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It’s a good thing a mortician did Bloomberg’s makeup because Liz just slayed him https://t.co/R7jJDud7gC
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Hello Ms. Breslin,
I just finished reading your blog (I know I’m three years late), and I too thought I was the only one who didn’t enjoy the new Wonder Woman movie. I wholeheartedly agree that her character is extremely lacking in dimension, and I find the plot tiresome and predictable. However, I disagree with something you said in the post, though I may be misinterpreting your meaning. To quote you directly, you wrote “I get it. I'm not supposed to expect that from a superhero movie. Wonder Woman is a cartoon. She is a caricature. She is by her very nature not complex. Literally, she is flat, two-dimensional, nothing more than a symbol.” but I think this may be too harsh a judgement of the superhero genre. Despite the fact that women in early comics were incredibly one dimensional, I think the superhero genre has grown in leaps and bounds over the decades, but continues to be overlooked and discredited by most serious critics, and honestly most adults in general. Wonder Woman and other early woman heroines may have begun as, like you say, caricatures of women and as heroes, but I believe that this is no longer the case, and it is only the result of poor writing that casts them in this light. The writers of this screenplay chose to tell a bland, dimensionless story, when they could have followed the lead of modern comic writers and created a strong and inspiring narrative based around a well rounded character. Please don’t discredit her character completely, as she has much potential that is being wasted on cheap, make-a-buck writing tactics.
Sincerely, [redacted]
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