The TueDo List: Instagram Bras + Depresh Mode + Liz Thompson
And how the nail salon helps one woman grieve
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: Ramona Quimby taught a generation of girls to embrace brashness. How daily exercise became the last great indulgence. Libertie, and Sharon Stone’s memoir. Sarah Miller interviews Emily Gould about disappointing Instagram bra purchases. I used to want a “normal” family. Dude, where’s my couch?
👀 LOOK: Gorgeous photos of Viola Davis and family from the “Black Americana” photoshoot directed by Regina King. The Louvre put its entire collection online. Take a virtual tour of Gloria Steinem’s historic apartment. Goth house for sale.
🎧 LISTEN: The 100 greatest Motown songs. Depresh Mode, a new podcast with top artists and entertainers talking about living with depression and anxiety. “No shame, no stigma, and more laughs than you might expect.”
🤣 LOL: Muppets, ranked. Why cats are a**sholes.
📺 STREAM
Thursday: Worn Stories, a series based on the bestselling book of the same name, about the clothes we cherish — and the stories they tell. (Netflix)
Friday: Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, and more women comics in Hysterical. (FX/Hulu)
Saturday: Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia. (Lifetime)
Sunday: The next Versuz features Earth, Wind & Fire and The Isley Brothers. Eyes on the Prize starts re-airing. (PBS)
STORY: The Nail Salon Became My Way Through Grief
By Issa Mas
“Seeing my father was gone, I went back into my room and pressed play on my Walkman, listening to The Cure’s “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me” as loud as I could, like any self-respecting teenager in the middle of a life-altering moment in 1986 would have... My mom stood at the door, looking at me. ‘Take a shower and get dressed,’ she finally said. ‘Let’s go to the nail salon.’”
TueNight 10: Liz Thompson
Meet TueNight’s new social media manager and Instagram wizardress, Liz Thompson. She’s the daughter of Hungarian refugees, a writer, blogger, and willing canvas for her grandchild’s art projects. When asked what makes her a grown-ass lady, she says, “success is good, but failure has given me the confidence and self-esteem to keep on going.”
Happy April Fool’s Day, TueNighters! (Tell us about your best pranks in the comments.)
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A former boss had been studying hard to pass her private pilot's license test for weeks. Her team of documentation writers had been helping her, so we were well-acquainted with the process. We created a script at the end of March and coerced a colleague to call our supervisor on April 1 to explain that the training school where she had been studying had been discredited, so none of the classroom work that she had completed would be accepted towards licensure. She would need to start over. When the boss came running into our suite of cubicles nearly in tears to explain the conversation, she could barely speak. One by one we began reciting pieces of the phone call conversation -- until the manager finally understood that we were behind the April Fool's Day joke. Then we burst out into laughter while she waffled between tears, anger and amazement that we'd pulled such a good joke on her.
I called my husband to tell him I had locked myself out of my car. I often lock myself out of my car, so it was totally believable. Except, this one April 1st, when I actually DID lock myself out of my car and he didn't believe me. The joke was on me, dammit.