10 Things We're Doing Besides Knitting and Menstruating

Feb 29

erica’s things

Falling even harder for Tessa Thompson (of Creed, Dear White People...and Veronica Mars!) after watching her kill it in the play Smart People, which is thought-provoking, funny, and, yah, smart.
Laughing at New York...and L.A., too.
Supplementing my reading list with the quippy reviews—and pretty pics—of @bestbookgrams.
Spending more time behind the wheel and re-reading this New Yorker story about a guy learning to drive as an adult—in Manhattan, no less—and his enigmatic instructor.
Casting a vote for the faux first lady memoir American Wife as a solid escape from all dat campaign coverage (but one that still feels 2016 election timely).

Feeling like this longread about teens on Tumblr is one of the more revealing reports on the current state of the internet, adolescence, and meme culture.
Finding myself dangerously close to planning an impromptu vacation (top of my list: Mexico City) after seeing the discounts I’d get via Hotelied.
Eating up the bite-size art history lessons served up by Commune Design’s excellent blog.
Thinking you could probably fill this home’s “water court” with the drool I produced after poring through images of it.
Wondering if courtroom art is about to have a moment—the Library of Congress just acquired the sketches of a bunch of high-profile cases, and Criminal had a surprisingly charming episode on the woman responsible for portraying John Wayne Gacy’s trial, among others.

Lighting up my a.m. routine with a candle that’s destined to become a permanent fixture in my mornings long past its burn time—the thing transforms into one of the chicest coffee mugs ya ever seen.