Hi, hope you're feeling as relieved as I am after Tuesday. An admin note: MailChimp helpfully went down about an hour after I sent last week's installment. So if there were links that didn't work for you, check back now! 

Here are some lovely and/or meaningful things for you from this week:

1. Here is a video of Tilda Swinton's pack of Springer Spaniels frolicking around a beach to a Handel aria. Do not ask why. Their names are Rosy, Dora, Louis, Dot, and Snowbear.
    
2. Everyday cosplay costumes, including such gems as "someone who just had a blood test, and now can't do anything straight after," "couple going home after laser eye surgery," and "customer in a crowded food court, who went to get cups of water first, and now can't find anywhere to sit." 
    
3. You can now create a new Google Doc or new spreadsheet by simply typing "doc.new" or "sheets.new" in the URL bar of many browsers. 
    
4. The podcast Friendshipping is Chicago friends Jenn and Trin providing relationship advice for friendships, and it's both funny and useful as a resource for sticky, morally fraught, or socially awkward situations. (Their theme song ends with their slogan: "Do friendship at the problem.")
    
5. The climate fight is only over if you think it is, by Rebecca Solnit. 
    
6. The Pride & Prejudice musical we deserve. ("There's for sure a song about ribbon shopping.") Someone please write this?
    
7. Yotam Ottolenghi and Newsletter Fave Deb "Smitten Kitchen" Perelman in conversation at the 92nd Street Y. (Here also are Deb's New York recommendations, for anyone who lives here and likes food or is visiting and likes food.)
    
8. A real picture of Harriet Tubman in color.
    
9. Stand Well Back: Images from the catalog of the Hirayama Fireworks company, early 1900s.
    
10. The days throw up a closed sign around four.

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Laura

P.S. Jobs: Director of Digital Engagement and Content, Carnegie Hall; Digital Director, Postlight; Director of Operations, Read/Write Library Chicago; Community Marketing Specialist, Glitch; Product Developer and National Coordinator for the Princeton Gerrymandering Project; many positions, Spread the Vote; Senior Product Designer, Vimeo. Bye.