The TueDo List: Tina! + Pre-Caregiving Tips + Garlic Peeling Joy
Plus Wendi Aarons on her memory lapses , and our Real World recaps!
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: What a bad day means to me, and how Mr. Miyagi taught me about anti-Asian racism. My toy company is joy personified, but I struggled with depression for decades. I wasn't supposed to love me. How a “Buy Nothing” group kept me human. British TV isn’t afraid of aging women.
🎧 LISTEN: No time to read a new 560-page oral history of hair metal? Check out Rolling Stone’s 47-minute podcast episode with some of the best stories from the book. From the vaults: Joe Strummer’s “Junco Partner,” which appears on the new ASSEMBLY compilation — along with a few unreleased Clash songs.
🤣 LOL: What’s on your one-year pandemic anniversary BINGO card? 24 surprising ways to injure yourself when you’re over 50. A Californian’s daily schedule, according to Fox news. Crocs for dogs.
📺 STREAM
Now: Q: Into the Storm, the new documentary series about the QAnon conspiracy movement. (HBO)
Now: Asian Americans. History lessons + personal stories = essential right now. (PBS)
Saturday: Maya Rudolph hosts SNL.
Saturday: TINA, a documentary celebrating Tina Turner’s career. (HBO) Related: One Woman Show, an online exhibition of amazing photos of Tina Turner, goes live on Thursday.
❤️ GIVE: Donate to the Colorado Healing Fund.
📢 PSA: This is your reminder to read our ridiculously good Real Word weekly recaps by Caryn Brooks. You’re welcome. (New every Friday!)
(Photo: Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images/HBO)
OBSESSED: Ben Omessi’s Original E-Z-Rol Garlic Peeler
By Margaret Crandall
I used to dread peeling garlic, hating how the smell remained under my fingernails for days afterwards. But last month, at my grandmother’s house, I discovered this magic garlic peeler she bought 20+ years ago at a place called Garlic World in Gilroy, CA (the so-called “garlic capital of the world”). I won’t say it changed my life, but it certainly made cooking a lot more enjoyable.
STORY: I Wish I Could Forget My Memory Lapses
By Wendi Aarons
“I can no longer tell you the name of the high school PE teacher who yelled at me when I popped the school dodge ball, but I can definitely tell you how to contour your big nose for ‘maximum glam power!’”
NEXT FOR X: Caregiving
When your parents are asking for help with sending back Amazon returns or other small tasks they’ve long handled on their own, you know you’ve entered the next stage of midlife, in which you start thinking about your parents’ aging — which means it’s time to get smart about your own, as well. We’re here to help, with company, commiseration, and some great home-reno ideas. (No, really — it’s related. Trust us.)
What Do You Call the Care that Comes Before Full-Blown Caregiving? We don’t know the answer to this question; we do know that whatever it’s called is likely coming soon.
9 Home Upgrades Every Gen Xer Needs (Plus One Crazy Indulgence). Plan to live in your home forever.
Taking Care of the Smartest Man I Knew. One TueNighter shares her story.
Next For X is sponsored by #disruptaging
It’ll come back to you in a minute, TueNighters. (And it was probably “tacos.”)