TueDo List: Donna Summer + Paranormal TikTok + Your Productivity Hacks
Plus, Margit asks: Do we really need more social media?
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: A delightful look at generation Connie. Pitchfork goes deep on what it’s like to navigate pregnancy and motherhood as a rock musician. Korean-Americans who return to the motherland. The wild world of momfluencers. I’m a TV writer on food stamps.
👀 LOOK: Unpacking the brilliance of costume designer Shiona Turini, who styled Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour. File under “stuff we never knew”: What passport colors mean.
🎧 LISTEN: PushkinFM’s latest audio original: “So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin,” featuring Martin in conversation with Adam Gopnik.
🤣 LOL: The replies: “What’s a tweet that’s so canonical in your mind you make shorthand reference to it?” Album covers that look exactly like the album sounds. Lisa Loeb is missing… Goldfish?
🛒 ADD TO CART: The 2023 nap dresses just dropped. Byredo’s Mumbai Noise, for when you’re done with Santal 33. SsanghwaCha Tea.
📺 WATCH:
Tonight: Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me. An unflinching look at the life and times of the tragic beauty (Netflix).
Wednesday: Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl. Tinsley Mortimer, the Hilton sisters, and the bloggers who drew jizz on their faces (Hulu).
Saturday: Love to Love You, Donna Summer. An intimate documentary portrait of the Queen of Disco, co-directed by her daughter Brooklyn Sudano (HBO).
Monday: Happy Valley, Series 3. The dark British crime drama returns (AMC+, BBC America).
STORY: If We Need Only 5 Friends, Why Do We Need 500 Social Media Sites?
By Margit Detweiler
On a regular catch-up call to a friend, I asked how she was doing and she replied, “Well you know, Phoebe has that thing and....”
That thing. That thing. Phoebe is her dog but I had no idea what “that thing” was.
“Uh huh, right,” I feigned while putting her on speakerphone and frantically scrolling and tapping my way through her socials.
Instagram...Facebook... LinkedIn...Twitter... Text. Oh no... Mastodon?
Her puppy post was on three of the six sites. Dear Phoebe had a heart murmur and I had completely missed the post. The horror.
Then, having found the puppy post with its details about doctors, and doe-eyed Phoebe in no mood for her usual tummy rubs, I recovered and quickly added, “Yes, and what has the vet said about her heart murmur?”
Phew.
For a decade there have been a maddening number of places to find messages and posts from friends. An alert pops up on your phone and disappears with a flourish, never to be seen again, leaving you wondering where the hell did that message come from? But now. BUT NOW. Since Elon Musk revamped Twitter in his image and everyone is looking for something better, there has been a new platform du jour every jour…
OBSESSED: The Exhilarating World of Ghost Hunting
By Liz Thompson
Growing up in an Eastern European family immersed in folklore and gripping tales of witches snatching away misbehaving children, I was raised with a firm belief in ghosts and developed a strong fascination for all things supernatural.
There’s something incredibly exhilarating about watching paranormal investigators venture into haunted locations armed with gadgets and guts. The goosebumps rise, the anticipation mounts, and I’m transported to a world where the supernatural comes alive on my TV screen…
#GENXAPPROVED: Question of the Week
TueNighter and comedian extraordinaire Ophira Eisenberg wants to know your tried-and-true time-management strategies that actually work. (“No, waking up earlier doesn’t count!”).
Keep it flowing, TueNighters!
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Generation Connie! What a wonderful article - thank you for sharing