week of 02/22:
SHE'S SO LUCKY
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Playlist of the Week: link
#freebritney
If there's nothing missing in her life, then why?
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Got some tunes ready for the weekend -- Valentines, Galentines, and Just Another Weekend songs all accepted!
Last 5 playlists: 2.14 | 2.08 | 02.01 | 01.25 | 11.23
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Culture Study: "Britney should get ten hours"
Equal-time rules demand a Britney Spears "Last Dance," and we will accept no compromises
As usual, Anne Helen Petersen cuts to the cultural heart of the matter more succinctly than we ever could: "74 minutes is not even close to enough time to tell this story. If Michael Jordan got ten hours, Britney should get ten hours." Britney was attainable (and yet, so unattainable). But that was part of her appeal: she was a girl-next-door, white, Christian goal that so many young millennial women wanted, somehow, to become. And so she is so much more than the -- extremely critical -- story of her conservatorship, or her mental health struggles. But that isn't the doc we got.
"It serves its purpose. I’m not mad at it. If you’d only spent a few hours of your life thinking about Britney Spears, I think it would probably be pretty gripping and infuriating. But it’s not the Britney Spears documentary I crave or need. It doesn’t feel like it’s answering the overarching question of why Britney Spears matters, especially for those of us who grew up in the cultural milieu that created her and that she, in turn, helped create."
But look, before we end up quoting AHP's whole newsletter, just go ahead and read the thing.
To Feel Stuff: The great mystery of Britney's reading list
Like, does she have a goodreads account?
Some of us have been on the "We have all committed a terrible wrong against Britney Spears" train for a while and that includes -- sort of -- Starlee Kine and her excellent and much missed podcast, Mystery Show. In this episode, the mystery is this: Britney is spotted leaving a restaurant with a book that, by just about any metric, tanked. And the book's author wants to know how she found out about the book, and what she thought. Kine's raw charisma, her inability to turn even the most awkward types of conversations into a delightful human exchange, is a bolt of joyful lightning in our dreary world.
And this is also why we say "sort of." The episode is also about plenty of things besides Britney -- but it is all because of Britney. And Kine is eyes wide open about it:
"Not only was Paradise Cove a bust, it made me feel grossed out with myself. I was becoming part of the reason Britney Spears didn’t want to leave her house. As much as I wanted to find her, I didn’t want to be someone trying to find her."
Have a listen. (We recommend the rest of the show, too -- it's only six episodes, each one its own mystery.)
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Spring break is rapidly approaching. But this year, as last year, the International Experience trips are, uh, not. But if you're anything like us, you're getting pretty sick of your usual routines and just want to see somewhere, anywhere else. Might we recommend this?
Apparently, dashcam videos of people just driving -- or occasionally, it turns out, biking -- around are a thing. (And if you already knew this, WHY didn't you tell us sooner!!!) This site pulls the videos and slaps a couple trappings on it to really create the ambiance. Sure, it's nothing like a day of public transit and finding holes in the wall and walking for miles, criss-crossing a new city. But, it's something.
So pick a city. Adjust the video play speed. Toggle street noises on or off. Switch on the regionally evocative radio -- or this week's D+I playlist. Click the little eye in the top right corner of the page to hide those controls. And sit back.
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Blow Your Nose: Required COVID Testing + Flu Shot Info
Although if you don't have your flu shot by now, we're not friends, sorry it's the rules.
Here’s the link for graduate/professional students to schedule COVID testing. The testing is FREE, it’s QUICK, it’s EASY, and the results come back REAL FAST. And honestly...why not do it twice? Also if there are stragglers: this Yale health page has flu information and a link to the "Find Your Flu Shot" tool (scroll down a bit).
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