> 177: Me claiming I could fix it
Laura Olin
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller/status/1679120675276193792?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Hi</a>,</p>
<p>I hope you are staying cool, and ~staying cool~. Here in New York it has been dog-in-fountain season, relentlessly, for weeks. In other hometown news: at my <a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">day job</a>, we are hiring a <a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/digital_project_managerengagement?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">digital project manager</a>. Is it you or someone you know? Come thru.</p>
<ol><li><p>I recently came across this Leslie Steinberg quote from "Stone Butch Blues" for the first time via the writer Alexander Chee: “I’m not saying we’ll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure. Take a chance... You’re already wondering if the world could change. Try imagining a world worth living in, and then ask yourself if that isn’t worth fighting for.” In progressive spaces it feels lately as though we've lost the ability to paint a picture of that world worth living in, with all the doom bearing down on us. But it's essential: "Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure."</p></li><li><p>Vote in the <a href="https://tinyawards.net/?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Tiny Awards</a> for great little web projects.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://labyrinthlocator.com/?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Labyrinth locator</a> and <a href="https://www.subwaydle.com/?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Subwaydle</a>.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/06/life-before-cell-phones-internet-after-work.html?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Young people have no idea what we used to do after work.</a></p></li><li><p>"I’d love to work with European filmmakers. I wish I spoke another language. I learned French really badly. I want you to write a piece about me quitting the business and moving to France to act. Here, they’d be like, <em>Who cares? She left us long ago</em>. I’m being stupid now. See? Then I’m going to see this in print and I’m going to regret it. But I won’t. Because <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/parker-posey-beau-is-afraid-interview.html?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">I don’t read my press</a>."</p></li><li><p><a href="https://harrysdesigns.com/pasta?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Pasta font.</a></p></li><li><p>The <a href="https://blog.kindel.com/2012/04/26/the-job-decision-matrix/?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">job decision matrix</a>.</p></li><li><p>Like every self-respecting Xennial who still thinks fondly of the Counting Crows, has been to therapy, and owns far too many cookbooks, I loved the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5U-w1yL4r0&utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">second season of The Bear</a>. Like all my favorite art, it captures the human condition by being both hopeful and devastating at the same time: What if people can really change, but some of them can't do it fast enough to save themselves? What if we gave people chances when they deserve them, and even when they don't?</p></li><li><p>An <a href="https://www.foodandwine.com/all-the-cookbooks-on-carmys-bookshelves-in-the-bear-7557548?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">in-depth investigation</a> of Carmy's cookbook shelves.</p></li><li><p>"I think more people should be willing to make drastic life changes in pursuit of a <a href="https://twitter.com/noampomsky/status/1669493730410385409?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">good friend group</a>." Also: <a href="https://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-live-near-your-friends?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">How to live near your friends.</a></p></li><li><p>If you're a person who enjoys alcoholic drinks and strawberries are still available where you are, I recommend Deb Perelman's "<a href="https://smittenkitchen.com/2017/05/the-red-and-black/?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Red and the Black</a>."</p></li><li><p>The <a href="https://www.compass.com/listing/246-east-49th-street-manhattan-ny-10017/1352939100748859761/?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">real estate listing</a> for Stephen Sondheim's Turtle Bay townhouse.</p></li><li><p>What to do with <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/what-to-do-with-climate-emotions?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">climate emotions.</a></p></li><li><p>100 really good <a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/2023-audubon-photography-awards-top-100?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">bird photos</a>.</p></li><li><p>When I saw you ahead I ran two blocks<br />shouting your name then realizing it wasn't<br />you but some alarmed pretender, I went on<br />running, shouting now into the sky,<br />continuing your fame and luster. Since I've<br />been incinerated, I've oft returned to this thought,<br />that all things loved are pursued and never caught,<br />even as you slept beside me you were flying off.<br />At least what's never had can't be lost, the sieve<br />of self stuck with just some larger chunks, jawbone,<br />wedding ring, a single repeated dream,<br />a lullaby in every elegy, descriptions<br />of the sea written in the desert, your broken<br />umbrella, me claiming I could fix it.</p><p>—Ash Ode, Dean Young</p></li></ol>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Choire/status/1670475169117159424?utm_source=lauraolin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=177-me-claiming-i-could-fix-it" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Bye</a>,</p>
<p>Laura</p>