Good Things Friday (174) and Link Love
June 24, 2022
1. Equal parenting: I take the hit the first day a kid’s sick because I roll with the initial punch more easily. PiC then takes sick time to take them the next day(s) once he’s had a bit of time to adjust.
2. This is me being hopeful: we’re meeting a potential dogsitter for Sera this weekend. They’re a really long haul away, so I’m really not looking forward to that exhausting back and forth but cross your fingers that she’s as good for Sera as I hope she can be?
Challenges this week:
Our very own Bethh is out and about and just completed her first camping trip on her time off! I’m so excited for her.
Baba Nowruz Gives His Wife a Flower Only Once a Year. “But my mother isn’t bound by what has gone before. And once she has decided this, there are no rules she cannot break. She tells me of how Zal is never abandoned by his father, and of tales where brothers are never betrayed. Lovers do not die with their love unconfessed, and in her romances passions are always requited.”
I don’t understand stories like this: Woman forced to spend ‘nonrefundable’ 2-week vacation with ex-boyfriend: Don’t ‘book vacations with bfs too far in advance’. If the trip is non-refundable and you’re not getting your money back, why would you go anyway and be miserable with an ex? The money’s gone regardless.
Sacheen Littlefeather Talks About What Really Happened Before, During And After Rejecting Marlon Brando’s Oscar: It is arguably the ugliest moment in Oscars history, in part because of racist overtones to the boos and the backlash to come, but also because of what Littlefeather said was taking place that night off stage, out of the camera’s eye: The late actor John Wayne — known for playing the cowboy up against Indians portrayed as savage — became “incensed” at Littlefeather.
“He attempted to assault me onstage. He had to be restrained by six security men,” Littlefeather told Jaqueline Stewart, Chief Artistic and Programming Officer of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, for LAist Studios’s The Academy Podcast.
Queen Latifah never ceases to amaze me. 💖 pic.twitter.com/En8hgy314g
— BLH (@_RareDefined) June 18, 2022
I genuinely do not think a lot of cis het men fully understand the power that them simply telling their friends ‘hey, that behaviour is not ok’ can wield.
Story time from my walk home from a Wedding last night 🧵— Amy Clarkin (@AmyClarkin) June 19, 2022
Thanks for the shout-out! I’ve almost wrapped up my trip and next is finding out what I do at home when I’m not doing a job! Cleaning up from camping & road tripping will take some time of course!
That vacation story was just silly. Seems more like looking for attention than anything else!
I hope if there are sick kids that they get well soon. And good luck with the dog sitter!!
That’s also an adventure!
Thanks, the kids definitely caught whatever is going around and shared it 😖