An out-of-this-world mural next to an LA coffee shop.
Here’s what I’ve read lately:
1. Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale. (Thank you to Abi for the recommendation.)
2. This story about a food-service director in the unhealthiest city in America and how she revolutionized her students’ school lunches made me tear up — no child deserves to go without lunch, and the current political climate is edging that notion towards reality.
3. This interview with Jack White is surprisingly soft (in that he seems like an old soul) and very good.
And a bonus: I finally finished the first season of The Young Pope and really enjoyed it. If you’re cool with a chain-smoking pope / shady cardinals and find absurd Italian art cinema to be right up your alley, I’d recommend it.
2. Janet Mock brilliantly articulates why the federal government should protect trans rights.
3. Inside the diversity shakeup at the Oscars. (I hadn’t really thought about it, but it’s unsurprising to know that the behind-the-scenes lobbying and strategizing is very suspect.)
There hasn’t been much Link Partying around here lately. I need to fix that, and I promise to be more consistent in the last few weeks of 2016 and into 2017.
Here’s a party to last you all week. Take your pick: