“I want to grill something!”
– Jeff
Happy Independence Day for Yank minions. I’m currently celebrating our freedom from Britain by eating the most British thing possible for summer, strawberries and cream, and admiring my view of the London skyline while I work. Hashtag traitor, or something.
In any event, it’s a gorgeous Friday with blue skies and bright sun. We’re hoping it stays fine since Jeff’s brother and sister-in-law are coming into town and we have great hopes of showing off our tiny flat and the big city. In the meantime, I’ve got about 10,000 projects to try and bang out before they get here. My freelance team has taken on new clients so we’re all terribly busy and important. Enjoy your links, add anything worth reading in the comments and let me know how you are spending the weekend. Stateside kittens eat barbeque for me, please.
These would not typically be my art style at all, but I’m finding these pieces summery. I’m also wishing it were physically possible to hang paintings and photos in our concrete walls.
Also crushing on the gallery wall from this apartment tour. We’re acquiring a staggering collection of prints and papery goodness living in London that are going to need to be prominently displayed someday.
I’ve had marriage on the brain this week, so I really enjoyed this unexpected piece on an arranged one.
In the list of attributes I thought I would never really admire in a wedding getup, shorts rank pretty high. Olivia Palermo shatters my preconceived notions.
Holy cow, this should stock my links list for at least the rest of the summer!
Sherlock returns! …in 2016. I swear, that show feels more like the Olympics than anything else.
In other public broadcasting news, This American Life is taking a couple of gambles on their production. Their first one is the biggest, but I’m also excited about their show Serial. I’m a huge fan of the radio show, let’s bring it back!
This photographer is just 15. And what have you done with your life, lately?
Disney will be thrilled, children who actually read the original tales will be traumatazied. 500 new German fairy tales have been discovered!
Tomato Nation is doing the work of the righteous and ranking Wimbledon players by hotness on your behalf. You are welcome.
Lastly, some pretty for your weekend: films inspired by art.
Small Dog Syndrome 
I’m looking forward to Serial too. I’ve been a devoted This American Life listener for the past few years and I love it so much that I wrote a blog post about The Joy of Great Radio, which went viral.
Well, not exactly viral, but the organization, Protect My Public Media, asked me if they could reprint the post over at their blog and it led to me getting over 2000 hits on that particular post on my blog! 🙂
Happy Fourth!
Oh wow, that’s fantastic! Great post as well, thanks for linking it. Happy 4th!
Conor’s list is intriguing — glad to see several writers I know personally in there (Adam Piore, Maryn McKenna) — as well. Happy Fourth!
That’s because you know everybody fabulous. I really hope there’s a meetup of this group I went to the other night when you’re in town, those women were incredible.
Of course! I know you….:-)
That would be amazing!