Sidebar

This is my weekly roundup of links and recommendations. If we talked IRL, I’d likely derail our entire conversation with “sidebar, have you read | watched | listened | deep dived on this?”

Have you watched?

My new personality is “Person who watches Chappell Roan’s Tiny Desk every day.” (NPR) Join me?

Really interesting TikTok by @mightymonika touring the Precious Moments Chapel in Carthage, MO. It emerges as a really beautiful portrait of grief.

I need an adult after seeing these maddie.shifts TikToks. Believe me when I say I STILL don’t understand what “shifting” is, but now I need to know. It’s “reality shifting?” like entering the multiverse where you can both really transport yourself to a narrative you create in fictional worlds like Harry Potter or alternate realities in our world (?). Someone help me with this!