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Your Weekly Breakdown
This week we’ve got a consolidated and tightly-curated roundup of all things tech, women, work, and culture. It’s a one-stop-shop to help you avoid the noise on your socials, skip garbage click-bait, and make it easier to get a straightforward understanding of relevant takeaways for the week. You’ll be more than prepared for a wide array of topics at the dinner party, feel mega in-the-know when you’re catching up with your friend over a smoothie, and ready to chip in at the oft-awkward pre-meeting banter on Monday morning.
Your Weekly Recommendations
Watch
Jonah Hill and Lauren London are absolutely golden in You People (Netflix). Julia Louis-Dreyfus will have you wincing in your seat.
Everyone is talking about Pamela Anderson taking control of her narrative with her new documentary (Netflix), and no doubt she is showing up for work in her signature way with her press tour. Highly recommend.
I’d watch Natasha Lyonne stare at paint dry and give it 5 stars so I’m a bit biased. That said, please know I’d never suggest boring crap to you!! Her new TV series Poker Face is just what we need to get through the next few winter weeks.
Shrinking (Apple TV+) is heavy subject matter served up in a light and fluffy way. A nice comeback for Jason Segel, who is rumoured to have had his own substance abuse and mental health issues. Harrison Ford plays our favourite curmudgeon.
Listen
Florence Pugh talks shop on The Run-Through with Vogue podcast.
Cults is just “a vibe” for me right now. Listen to this decade-old album before you argue with me.
Apparently I missed the Kacey Johansing era in 2017. Her folk-country album The Hiding will be on repeat in my house this weekend.
This Muzz album was out in 2020 but the listening gets no less heavenly with each passing year.
Read
Lighter on the reading list this week but 2 books that rocked my world for you here:
Small Pleasures, a little handbook on how to better enjoy life’s little moments. It was a birthday gift and I have enjoyed flipping through it each night just before I turn the lights out. I head off to sleep with a little smile on my face.
I was influenced by a friend of someone I know that knows someone I follow on IG….I think? Anyway, At Certain Points We Touch is captivating trans fiction novel, a debut from Lauren John Joseph. It is super duper lush and dramatic. It won’t be for everyone, but what novel is?
Indulge
The only nudes I actually enjoy receiving these days are quality polishes. When I do manage to find time to do my nails, I am impossibly boring (classic?). I finally found the perfect nude and it’s OPI’s Samoan Sand. Not too pink, not too creamy, not too beige.
The other nude I saw this week was this fabulous maxi sherpa-style coat on a young woman near my kids’ school. I immediately scoured the internet and found these two below - the more neutral one from Sweaty Betty, and a cute, colourful array of neutrals with pops of colour from UGG (oddly the better price point).
Makers and raisers of smöl humans
A parent friend suggested I add a parent section to the newsletter. Shocking suggestion, I know. So here it is!
I flipped on this kids’ fantasy podcast from the BBC (thank you Tessa!) for my 9 year old. We read *a lot* of sci-fi and fantasy in my house, and this one seemed a bit too dark for her taste. Maybe for those kiddos 10+ or who are more well-versed in the dark arts?
For the littlest of the littles, please just cough up the dough and get the Ofie mat? I shelled out for each of my kids, and they are still the primary ‘rugs’ in their rooms. In addition, I have considered one for my own office so I can lie down in supreme comfort while I stare at the ceiling and weep.