Before we get into the rest: If you only click/watch ONE link this week, make it this one, please.
Okay.
It’s Friday!
We made it! I’m trying to fit about 7 lives into today, so no long drumroll…let’s go!
Good Reads
- If you want a happier life, you should write a “life brief“.
- “It is super important that we still nurture and progress creative talent during these difficult times, so that when the sector does bounce back, we have a skilled, engaged and supported workforce who are ready deliver world class content!” – Mel Rodrigues
- As a lover girl, I reject this.
- “How solo travel taught me to love myself.”
- How to create the perfect pitch deck.
- “I wish I could stop thinking about ‘Mr. Brightside’.” What if the 2003 hit song is sad and gay?
Good Listens and Watches
- Ignoring the Jimmy Fallon of it all, this is pretty cool.
- Sometimes people need to be called dumb to their faces. Here’s how you hunt for wifi in Africa.
- Now, THIS, is how you tell a dirty joke!!!
- I’ve come to the conclusion that I would die for this woman.
- Obsessed with them. (There’s some NSFW language in the lyrics so careful if you’re clicking this at your PowerPoint job!!)
- Glee clips were doing the rounds last week and I’ve always loved the original of this song but since watching this scene – from the tribute episode to Corey Monteith – and considering how Naya Rivera eventually died: my god. I have not stopped crying since.
- Quinta Brunson just became the second Black actress in Emmys history to win Lead in the Comedy category. FOURTY TWO YEARS after Isabel Sanford won for The Jeffersons. You should watch her acceptance speech.
- I feel like this is what I look like when I drag my 4L water bottle around to speaking engagements (and dinners, and drinks, and the coffee shop, and, and…)
- I love Black people so much, my god. Lolol.
- This makes me a little sad that I didn’t grow up with brothers.
- I sent this to everyone I knew and some people I didn’t. Lol.
- Whenever twins are cast in a fashion show, I know I’m about to see something cool as hell.
The Best of the Rest
- We used to live in a society.
- POCKETS?????
- This is so gorgeous.
- Would you guys still love me if I made a sweater out of Wookie’s hair???
Okay. Happy Weekend. Remember, kids: Rotting is an Olympic Sport.
Bye. 🥰