Midweek Obsessions, Vol. 57

Still unhinged about Hugh Grant.

💸 A great breakdown of where we’re at

moneywithkatie

A post shared by @moneywithkatie

This is about media, this is about neoliberalism, consumerism, capitalism, Reaganomics, misery, equity, dentistry, debt, your job, my job, unions, and atomization. This is about America. This is everything in three minutes. There was nothing new in here, but it was succinct. I know some people out there can’t hear women when they speak, but this is worth the attempt. I feel like I’ve watched

Katie Gatti Tassin

become radicalized in real time.

---

😹 Shiadanni on Instagram makes me laugh

Evidently, she’s a singer? But I only know her as an Instagram comedian.

shiadanni

A post shared by @shiadanni

What a multi-talented lady.

---

✒️ “Above Everything” by David Ignatow

I wished for death often
but now that I am at its door
I have changed my mind about the world.
It should go on; it is beautiful,
even as a dream, filled with water and seed,
plants and animals, others like myself,
ships and buildings and messages
filling the air—a beauty,
if ever I have seen one.
In the next world, should I remember
this one, I will praise it
above everything.

-From Whisper to the Earth: New Poems. © Little, Brown & Company, 1981.

---

🥰 Emoji Kitchen on Google

This week, I’ve been playing around with Google's Emoji Kitchen, which lets you combine emojis to get at more specific emotions.

---

📺 People in the industry talking about the industry

I really liked this bit on “Late Night” in which Seth Meyers and Brett Goldstein talk about “Sesame Street.”

Please also enjoy Bill Hader doing an impression of Kristen Wiig doing an impression of Judy Garland.

vulture

A post shared by @vulture

Kristen Wiig is stronger than me because how do you not fall in love with Bill Hader.

---