Hi friends,
Because we skipped a day and because everyone deserves a pre-Valentine's Day treat, I thought I'd add some more stuff than I was originally planning to post. Also, I just want to explode for a second with SO MUCH LOVE for this blog.
1. How major cities would look with a full sky of brilliant stars -- A photographer used "night skies from less populated locations that fall on the same latitudes" to show us what these cities would look like. Wild.
2. Hilarious banana slicer product comments -- Read at least the first page of comments on this item. In the words of my mom, "This is a scream!!!"
3. New Yorker 4-Part Series: Simon Rich's Sell Out -- It takes a while to read, but I promise it's worth it. Read all four parts. It's Jewy; it's New Yorky; it's funny; it's wonderful.
Because we skipped a day and because everyone deserves a pre-Valentine's Day treat, I thought I'd add some more stuff than I was originally planning to post. Also, I just want to explode for a second with SO MUCH LOVE for this blog.
1. How major cities would look with a full sky of brilliant stars -- A photographer used "night skies from less populated locations that fall on the same latitudes" to show us what these cities would look like. Wild.
2. Hilarious banana slicer product comments -- Read at least the first page of comments on this item. In the words of my mom, "This is a scream!!!"
3. New Yorker 4-Part Series: Simon Rich's Sell Out -- It takes a while to read, but I promise it's worth it. Read all four parts. It's Jewy; it's New Yorky; it's funny; it's wonderful.
4. Marvin Gaye's National Anthem -- The smoothest version of the National Anthem I've ever heard.
5. And a poem that I love:
To My Twenties
By Kenneth Koch
How lucky that I ran into you
When everything was possible
For my legs and arms, and with hope in my heart
And so happy to see any woman—
O woman! O my twentieth year!
Basking in you, you
Oasis from both growing and decay
Fantastic unheard of nine- or ten-year oasis
A palm tree, hey! And then another
And another—and water!
I’m still very impressed by you. Whither,
Midst falling decades, have you gone? Oh in what lucky fellow,
Unsure of himself, upset, and unemployable
For the moment in any case, do you live now?
From my window I drop a nickel
By mistake. With
You I race down to get it
But I find there on
The street instead, a good friend,
X— N—, who says to me
Kenneth do you have a minute?
And I say yes! I am in my twenties!
I have plenty of time! In you I marry,
In you I first go to France; I make my best friends
In you, and a few enemies. I
Write a lot and am living all the time
And thinking about living. I loved to frequent you
After my teens and before my thirties.
You three together in a bar
I always preferred you because you were midmost
Most lustrous apparently strongest
Although now that I look back on you
What part have you played?
You never, ever, were stingy.
What you gave me you gave whole
But as for telling
Me how best to use it
You weren’t a genius at that.
Twenties, my soul
Is yours for the asking
You know that, if you ever come back.
How lucky that I ran into you
When everything was possible
For my legs and arms, and with hope in my heart
And so happy to see any woman—
O woman! O my twentieth year!
Basking in you, you
Oasis from both growing and decay
Fantastic unheard of nine- or ten-year oasis
A palm tree, hey! And then another
And another—and water!
I’m still very impressed by you. Whither,
Midst falling decades, have you gone? Oh in what lucky fellow,
Unsure of himself, upset, and unemployable
For the moment in any case, do you live now?
From my window I drop a nickel
By mistake. With
You I race down to get it
But I find there on
The street instead, a good friend,
X— N—, who says to me
Kenneth do you have a minute?
And I say yes! I am in my twenties!
I have plenty of time! In you I marry,
In you I first go to France; I make my best friends
In you, and a few enemies. I
Write a lot and am living all the time
And thinking about living. I loved to frequent you
After my teens and before my thirties.
You three together in a bar
I always preferred you because you were midmost
Most lustrous apparently strongest
Although now that I look back on you
What part have you played?
You never, ever, were stingy.
What you gave me you gave whole
But as for telling
Me how best to use it
You weren’t a genius at that.
Twenties, my soul
Is yours for the asking
You know that, if you ever come back.
Lots of love,
Tali
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