TueDo List: Pink Wines + Petite Garb + Gen-X Style
Plus, a Cowboy Junkies interview, GWAR, and that omelette from The Bear
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: What if we could ditch menopause? How Black Mirror predicted the future, again. Saying goodbye to The Dead, again. Quit your job, move here. A plunge into sandwich caregiving. Ali Yarrow’s Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood, is out today.
👀 LOOK: Strangely emotional video of people diving off a 10-meter platform. Our 90’s crushes. New emojis include smh and gender-neutral families. Gen-X style, past and present.
🎧 LISTEN: Lovely Cowboy Junkies interview and performance. “Je t’aime… moi non plus”, RIP Jane Birkin. Not new, but The National + Taylor Swift duet on “The Alcott” is such a sweet summer dream.
🤣 LOL: 1972 Meeting of Baby Boomers About to Become Moms (My parents are Silent Gen. but same diff.) GWAR + Tiny Desk = genius. Loogie of Dust. Welcome to the club, Millennials.
🎟️ GO: For Jaws fans: The Shark is Broken on Broadway. Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, the Opera.
😋 YUM: Twinkie/ Ding-Dong mashup. Wine: good for you, bad for you, who cares? Making the potato-chip omelet from The Bear.
📺 WATCH:
This week: Hair metal docuseries I wanna Rock: The 80s Metal Dream (Paramount+). Project Greenlight is back with Issa Rae as a judge (Max). Timothy Olyphant and daughter Vivian Olyphant in Justified: City Primeval (Hulu), This NY Times short about Ukrainian kids: “War is a waste of time, It’s a waste of everything.”
Thursday: The awesome power of sisterhood in Sweet Magnolias | Season 3 (Netflix).
Friday: Double-feature mega-movie night with the much talked about Barbie and Oppenheimer (a.k.a. Barbieheimer) both releasing in theaters, at the same time!
Sunday: Zoe Saldaña, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, and Taylor Sheridan, in the action series Special Ops: Lioness (Paramount+).
🌳 DO GOOD: How to support the writer’s and SAG strikes, online and off. Unite against Book Bans. Loveland’s panel on seasonal depression, tomorrow 7/19.
STORY: The White Zins of My Past
By Tamara Reynolds
There are two types of pink wine: rosé and white zinfandel. Even the casual drinker knows they are only related by color and barely even at that.
I wasn’t one of those kids who went to keg parties in the desert in high school — I was too busy in choir and theatre rehearsals or running track meets or working at the IHOP to have time for it. And, honestly, I thought I was better than those kids. (I was an early adopter of snobbery.) Aside from an unfortunate incident that involved a couple of older private school boys, a missed Roger Waters concert and a bottle of Almaden Mountain Chablis, I didn’t really drink at all until I went away to North Texas State University for college. It was my first time away from home and I was living in the “artists’ dorm,” so naturally two days in I ended up at a Sigma Tau Gamma party and the next thing I knew I was a “little sister” of the fraternity. Again, I thought I was better than the girls who pledged to sororities, but drinking with the guys seemed fine. The problem was, they drank beer and I didn’t like beer.
Enter: WHITE ZINFANDEL….
#GENXAPPROVED: Question of the Week
This week, TueNighter Kathy is turning to our amazing community of grown-ass ladies for suggestions on clothing brands that cater specifically to petite GALs (measuring 5'4" or under).
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Rock out with your badass selves, TueNighters!
Love seeing the Cowboy Junkies still glowing... :)
Not a GWAR fan, but absolutely loved that they were on NPR's Tiny Desk show.