Here's a Holiday Round-Up: a few recommendations to which to treat yourselves if you have a moment to yourselves over the next few weeks.
But first, a mini rave/rant:
Santa-Con: I know everyone's bitching about it! But even as an East Village dweller who had to bob and weave around the bobbing and weaving, some slightly stumbling Santas yesterday, I say give them a break. They're 20-something. They just finished finals and/or they have a job that they actually clock out of on Friday nights. They don't have to work all day Saturday "catching up" on all the emails they didn't get to during the work week; nor do they have to spend all day Sunday "getting a jump on Monday." No, it's not a grown up thing to do. It's called getting drunk and generally not giving a rat's ass about it.
Conversely, being "grown up" could mean a Saturday that entails:
Reconciling health insurance "Explanation of Benefits" forms
Trying to upgrade an iPhone on a family plan with a (not-to-be-named) carrier whose sole purpose is to not allow you to upgrade and stay on your (only semi-, not super-) outrageously priced Family Plan with "unlimited data" that actually does seem to be limited
Going to the dry cleaner
Filling prescriptions at the drug store because you finally got your health insurance to cover them.
Writing/Sending Holiday Cards because that's what you're supposed to do, not because you really want to
All of the above
I know which one I'd choose!
Here's some Holiday Picks--the last one is NYC-based...apologies, rest of world!:
A really good movie Plus even if you don't really want to, you have to see it because it will be nominated for everything Oscar; and this year's show will be filled with movies few people saw, so you might as well see one. Plus, my dearest friends directed and produced it.
A really good play. Tricked you! It's not "Hamilton" -- which I am afraid to see because if I don't like it then I will be "that person who doesn't like 'Hamilton'." To achieve that opinion would be, by all accounts, a self-willed act of contrarianism because apparently it is simply not un-likeable. But this is a season where my innate proclivity to take an opposing view is validated. Yes, I feel a special connection with a beloved, certain Holiday character.
Final note: I don't do much press anymore, nor did I think that I resemble a slightly futuristic, blue/silver-haired virtual-reality gamer-babe, but when our monthly issue of Game Informer magazine hit our doorstep I sure did a double take!
I bet this gal is actually a good 25 years younger than me and is probably at Santa Con right now. The LZSundayPaper is on a crawl -- or rather a ramble -- right now. Please do come along and take a look at this week's news about and by women in business, politics, digital, media, film, tv, fashion, sports, and pop culture. Roughly in that order. Hand-picked. By me. For you.
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