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Things to Make Your Day Better

Things to Make Your Day Better

Things! Thoughts! Live! Laugh! Love!

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Sara Benincasa
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I’ve got a bevy o’ links to share with you, plus a little ramble. Also, I spent some time yesterday with a famous bird puppet who got shouted out this week in thee NY Times, a bird called Chad, whom you may know from your TikTok (where he has 5.2 million likes, what?) or your Instagram or whatever, and I’ll be on this bird’s podcast on Friday.

I’ve been friends for 25 years with the man with his hand up this bird’s ass, but that’s another story for another day. Go follow Chad’s roommate Josh Zagoren and say hi if you want - he’s just another member of that huge demographic known as “nice Jewish boy from Iowa who is obsessed with pinball and performs weekly avian op-eds at an historic jazz bar in Chicago in front of a packed audience.”

I am also on Instagram, can you believe it? I have mostly been too tired to create my own content on my own TikTok, but if you have suggestions for what I should do in that space, please tell me.

Newsletters I dig

I love reading, and I don’t do as much of it as I’d like - by which I mean, I don’t read 24/7 because I have to do other things, like drink water and pee and sleep and brush my teeth and stare at my cat’s belly and commune with nature (the succulent potted plant in my home that I somehow haven’t murdered yet.)

However! This very platform has some great writing on it. Here are a few faves.

Steady
by theeeee
Dan Rather
- He’s in his 90s and this thing is great

Connie Schultz
is fabulous

Jeff Tiedrich
yells things hilariously in
everyone is entitled to my own opinion
but in words, on the screen, and it’s a good time

The Present Age
- I love
Parker Molloy
and I love her writing

Jeff Tweedy | Starship Casual
is a damn delight

Oldster Magazine
by
Sari Botton
is so very lovely

The Audacity.
- Always worth a read, thanks to
Roxane Gay

Sarah Knight
is wonderful. Buy her books!

Do you like nails? The kind that go on your fingers versus in your construction projects?

The Dry Down Diaries 💅
by queen
Christina Loff
is for YOU.

Jenny’s Substack - Let's art together
by the talented Jenny Lawson

The Play Typer Guy
- Stephen is great

The Moral High Ground
- Evan is delightful

Wonkette
- I am extremely biased, because I write for Yr Wonkette

And there are so many more! Too many for one post. Now on to some Links of Note and a bit of a personal essay, or the beginnings of one…

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