Valentine's Day Edition [#39]
Greetings!
I've never been so riveted listening to a case being argued in front of federal judges than I was when the immigration order went before the 9th Circuit. Wasn't sure what all the Latin terms were, or the Din case they kept referring to, but damn, that was thrilling.
What I Read
We are living in an emergency. Why Jeff Sessions is uniquely dangerous. Bernie Sanders is a fashion icon. NPR's audio engineers...ask them anything. The Japanese have successfully engineered a heart-shaped lemon. An ode to an easy dish all Chinese moms make. The Write-Your-Sibling project (I am thinking about doing this with Roger Hu). 2017 is the year of the paranoid Medium post. The brilliance of having a woman play Sean Spicer. Dr. Bornstein is by far my favorite person in the Trump orbit. Evan McMullin's voice in the resistance. "You don't need leaders, you just need a conscience." It doesn't take too much to imagine this version of America.
What I Wrote/Talked About
North Korea's first missile test under Trump. The 'America First' president sent his defense secretary to my part of the world. Japan's prime minister seeks to preserve an alliance in the age of Trump. My cat, The Cheese.
Special Holiday Section
To mark the holiday, I went through my Evernote for links I've saved on modern love: Joan Didion on loving yourself, first. Nora Ephron and what love is like in the movies. Preserving love in a culture of fear. Kurt Vonnegut on marriage. Whether you're a libertine or a loyalist in relationships, you're wrong. The Americans reminds us marriage isn't black-and-white, and neither are politics. The operative fallacy about unconditional love. I want everyone to get laid more. Keeping up your self-love routine. What if the purpose of love is to break us up? The quantified breakup. True romance is the "palpable, reassuring sense it's okay to be a human being." "Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world." And my favorite Zadie Smith: "Joy is such a human madness."
What I Watched
Obviously, the can't-miss sketches of Melissa McCarthy playing Sean Spicer.
Sean Spicer's alternative ABC's
The Handmaiden. Incredible.
The Light Between The Oceans. This was a bit emotionally cloying but the female lead in it might be the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and OF COURSE she's with Michael Fassbender in real life. Of course.
To love,
Elise
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