Your weekly cultural feed is here! A few things that’ll make you laugh or at least smile…
Elmo is in awe of the list or just tripped out after reading James Joyce.
- The Guardian Food Page rocks my world daily. Check out David Sedaris’ article on why he’d rather starve than eat in China.
- Do you take your fashion too seriously? If so, here’s a {tongue-in-cheek} self-help fashion addict mini-film featuring one of my favorites, Florence Welch, whose Pre-Raphaelites’ aesthetics caught my eye. Her music is ragingly good, too.
- Can’t get even enough of Florence + the Machine’s creative genius? Well, now you can wrap it around your neck via a homemade scarf. In her latest foray into fashion, Welch helped design these art-inspired fabrics.
- Twenty-Nine Ways to Stay Creative via Elizabeth Jurewicz to get you inspired and finish the week on a high!
- Thanks to the fabulously generous April for contributing to Monday’s Beautiful Mess.
- I’ve been listening to the Summer Set’s album, Everything’s Fine. It will put the heat in the your summer playlist. Fun pop to get you bopping on your way to the beach. I haven’t got a beach here in the city so I do it while I sip sangria by my window and look out at the skyline.
- Congratulations to my college buddy Brittaney who is getting married. May you overuse the pronoun “we” the rest of your life.
- JC Coccoli pleads with you to stop badmouthing other women! Bitchery is not the same as catching-up. And while you’re at it, wire your Inner Critic’s Jaw Shut courtesy of Seth Godin.
- Saveur will always make you salivate. Another great light summer dish, Shrimp and Rice Pilaf, if you’re bored with chicken salads.
- 10 Happiness Quotes We Love from Oprah.com
- If you’ve got Wonder Lust, join Abduzeedo’s Worldwide Photography Series.
- This Flow Chart about How to Have an Argument on the Internet is amazingly hilarious yet right on the nose.
- This series of iphone photos on the war in Afghanistan is amazing. Who knew?! The photographers Teru Kuwayama and Balazs Gardi probably didn’t know either. They tried it and uncovered a gem. There’s only the trying.
- Twitter might tell us where the next flu outbreak is spreading from {among other things}. NPR’s Twitter Provides A Trove Of Health Trends gives you more on that.
- I love this chapter from Thoreau’s Walden about the value of good conversation. Keep it simple, keep it fresh.
…obviously he couldn’t keep up!
