TueDo List: Grown-Ass Mean Girls + Lunachicks Skincare + Asian American '80s
And can we talk about Jared Leto at the Met Gala? Meow.
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: The staggering cost of menopause. How to make meaningful friendships as an adult. Dr. Nicole LaPera’s Twitter feed is a daily source of wisdom. Minjae Ormes on when leaders have a bad day. A hilarious piece from the Vice archives about a dude who played “The Boys Are Back in Town” over, and over, and over on a jukebox.
👀 LOOK: Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka had to get married again because her officiant forgot to turn in the paperwork. Abandoned Gen-X bedroom discovered, “intact.”
🎧 LISTEN: The new Vietnamese experimental vanguard. Farewell, Gordon Lightfoot.
🤣 LOL: A Star Wars trailer in the style of Wes Anderson. Cats might try but they cannot resist. Jared Leto as Choupette, Karl Lagerfeld's cat.
🛒 ADD TO CART: A dress for the next Art Basel Miami Beach. Punk Crocs. Coronation Tea. These gorgeous floral blankets.
😋 YUM: Sleepy girl mocktails. Gluten-free buckwheat apple cake. The best chicken salads. The seven kinds of rice noodles.
📺 WATCH:
Anytime: The “Asian American ‘80s” collection on The Criterion Channel, new for AAPI Heritage Month.
Thursday: Bupkis: A fictionalized version of Pete Davidson’s real life in half-hour comedy format (Peacock). Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story: A limited series prequel devoted to the marriage between the young Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio) and King George (Corey Mylchreest) (Netflix).
OBSESSED: Lunachicks' Theo Kogan Shares Her Fave Skincare Obsession
By Theo Kogan
OK, this is not a commercial and I have not been paid.
Seeing Sydney Sweeney, who is 25 years old, using the Solawave Wand did not make me go, “I MUST HAVE THIS.” (Jennifer Coolidge is more like it, but she was only added into their ads recently.)
The Solawave Wand is a small DIY red light therapy wand that looks like a razor without the blade. I bought one last summer and didn’t pick it up until recently.
As a professional makeup artist, I purchase many products (too many for any one human), but here we are. Fed up with seeing a million ads for the Solawave in my IG feed (targeted much?), I busted it out about two months ago…
STORY: Every Woman’s Reward: Becoming That Mean Old Lady
By Desiree Cooper
I’ll admit it. As the years go by, I seem to be getting meaner. If I gave a damn, this would be a troubling development.
I was born on March 20, the vernal equinox, the first day of spring when everything’s coming up daisies. As a Pisces, I spent most of my life a brooding but compassionate dreamer, friend of the underdog, empathic helper. But March 20 is also on the cusp of Aries, the bullheaded, competitive, pull-no-punches sign. That makes me an astrological Dr. Jekyll, Ms. Hyde. So, I’m not surprised that in my second act, I’ve gone from friendly fish to full-tilt ram.
What worries me is that my prickliness may not be written in the stars so much as imprinted on my genes. I don’t aspire to be an old shrew, but when I look at some of the women in my family, I wonder if it can be avoided.
#GENXAPPROVED: Question of the Week
This week in #GenXApproved, it’s me, Margit, clamoring for your luggage tips! I know you have ‘em….
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