Wednesday, May 30, 2018

@21:34, 5/29/18

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Books

A Warning to Women of a Certain Age: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightdress

Pamela Druckerman — horrified when waiters began calling her “madame,” not “mademoiselle” — has written a book about women and middle age, “There Are No Grown-Ups.”

I will have to read it.

2
Style

My Relationship Makes Me Feel Excruciatingly Lonely. But I Love Her!

A 22-year-old says his relationship makes him miserable. So why does he stay?

22 was a long time ago.

My pain has faded.  My desire remains.

3
Style

One Door Closes, and an Uber Door Opens. Love Follows.


Talk helps.

4
Arts

Roseanne Barr’s Tweets Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere

Ms. Barr has a history of insensitive tweets as well as those that endorse fringe conspiracy theories. Here are some of them.

I doubt people are jumping to conclusions about her.

5
Style

Costume Secrets From ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’

The show’s costume designer explains the genesis of the most influential looks from Amazon’s new series.

The Victorian period survived in Australia and Windsor until a few years ago.  The great secret was the underwear.
A lesser secret is formality.
Costume was a caste marker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/

6
Fashion & Style

Nicolas Ghesquière Still Has Something He Wants to Say at Louis Vuitton


Good show.

7
Magazine

Malcolm Gladwell Likes Things Better in Canada


Canada is good.

I can probably find an isolated house on a modest lake
for a moderate price.  
Four months of travel by snowmobile is the problem.

8
Style

Jeans, Made in the … U.K.?

The British are coming for the United States denim market.

Denim is the uniform of youth in the western world.

9
Climate

6 Things You’re Recycling Wrong

Can you recycle coffee cups or greasy pizza boxes? If you’re tossing things in the recycling bin out of sheer hope, you might be an “aspirational recycler.”

Yes.
My hauler does not recycle ordinary trash.

10
Climate

Lowe’s Drops Paint Strippers Blamed in Dozens of Deaths

The retailer says it will stop selling paint strippers that contain two dangerous chemicals. A proposal to ban the chemicals is before the E.P.A.

The proposed ban is a good idea.
Trump is not helping his cause.




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1
Food

An Alabama Chef and Her Beloved Desserts Hit the Big Time

After 30 years of thrilling customers, Dolester Miles has been anointed the nation’s best pastry chef — though she’s not making a big deal about it.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019329-lemon-meringue-tart

2
Books

A Warning to Women of a Certain Age: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightdress


I know your age.

3
Style

My Relationship Makes Me Feel Excruciatingly Lonely. But I Love Her!


The desire remains.

4
Arts

On Paid YouTube, Sci-Fi Comedy and the Grown-Up Karate Kid

YouTube Red, soon to be YouTube Premium, is taking baby steps toward competing with the Netflixes of the world (for $12 a month).

Pay TV over the internet.

5
Style

Jeans, Made in the … U.K.?


Why not?
They are both fashion and a death of style.

6
Style

One Door Closes, and an Uber Door Opens. Love Follows.

For some people, car services like Uber and Via provide more than just transportation. They turn out to be vehicles for meeting their beloved.

Sex is easy to get.
Love is harder.
Companionship
with loving sex
is demanding.


Climate

6 Things You’re Recycling Wrong

Can you recycle coffee cups or greasy pizza boxes? If you’re tossing things in the recycling bin out of sheer hope, you might be an “aspirational recycler.”

Smaller loops are better.
Home canning and freezing.

8
Sports

American M.M.A. Fighter Granted Russian Citizenship

Jeff Monson had professed a desire for at least five years to officially become a Russian.

There are always a few nuts.
Trump could join them.

9
Magazine

Malcolm Gladwell Likes Things Better in Canada


He lives here.

10
Fashion & Style

Nicolas Ghesquière Still Has Something He Wants to Say at Louis Vuitton

And he said a lot of it at the brand’s cruise show in the south of France.

He is not leaving.

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