First, and most importantly, before you do anything else with your life, please watch this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXBG72ZjVLM/
IT IS THE BEST. This is really just the greatest. It made my week better.
Here's some other stuff:
-- Did you know that we're on Instagram? We are!
-- Do you need some new luggage? We have CUTE OPTIONS for you.
-- Can we interest you in everything Charlize Theron has ever worn? It's not as good as you might recall.
-- Totally relevant to your interests: The Rise and Fall of Liz Smith, Celebrity Accomplice [New York Times]
-- Compelling, and sad, and worth your time, at Splinter: 'I Am a Girl Now,' Sage Smith Wrote. Then She Went Missing.
-- Yesterday was crazy, and I hope you didn't miss this. As The AV Club puts it: Beloved website The Toast reappeared for a single day
-- OMG this sounds exciting! Per The Guardian: V&A exhibition sets sail for glory days of luxury ocean liners! (Thanks to the Fug Nationals who sent this in to us, as well.)
-- Via Pajiba, a very important topic: Let’s Shamelessly Discuss Who the Hottest Directors Are
-- Town & Country asks: Is This the Most Scandalous Hotel in England?
-- At Revelist: some ding-dongs invented the uninventable: BEER FOR WOMEN. Whatever will they think of next? Women drivers? My stars!!
-- Completely fascinating, from The New Yorker: The Obsessive Art and Great Confession of Charlotte Salomon. Here's your lede: "In February, 1943, eight months before she was murdered in Auschwitz, the German painter Charlotte Salomon killed her grandfather."
-- NEWS YOU CAN USE: M.A.C. Is Giving Away Lipstick This Weekend. [Yahoo]
-- At Lainey, this is we need right now: "Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a TV show and it’s a parody of a Romanian 1980s cop show."
-- Racked went to a nudist colony, and the piece is really good. "What kind of shoe goes best with stark naked? I didn’t know. I brought four pairs."
-- Again, at Lainey: Kate Hudson got a buzz cut and honestly it looks good on her.
-- This is neat: Help the New York Public Library Geotag Enigmatic NYC Photos [Hyperallergic]
-- At Atlas Obscura: See London’s Underground ‘Mail Rail,’ Then and Now: It’s like the Tube, but for post. If only they had a mail robot.
-- Important intel at Revelist: I tried every eyebrow gel at the drugstore — here's the winner.
-- Fascinating: Prop Master: How a "Star Wars" Superfan Scoured the Earth for Space Debris [Collectors Weekly]
-- At The New Potato, a good round-up of waterproof makeup, for when you're going swimming with someone you've got the mega-hots for.
-- Lots of makeup coverage today, but this is one of the best Top Shelfs that Into The Gloss has ever done.
-- At Celebitchy: Taylor Swift ‘is in a happy place, even though she seems like she is hiding.’ WELL THANK GOD. Now I can rest.