Bangs
A comic about passing time at home during a pandemic
Hi, I’m Edith, and this is a newsletter with comics and links. I’d love to know what you think; please feel free to reply to this email!
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Cartoonist Gabrielle Bell is also cutting her hair at home. [Patreon]
“Get Bangs,” a classic by Madeleine Aggeler. [The Cut]
The knitting pattern I’m using is Martha McKenzie’s variation on Katie Rose Pryal’s Sediment Scraps Blanket. [Ravelry]
“What if my partner ‘grows’ into a person who no longer tolerates my bullshit? And what if my ‘work’ means finding out uncomfortable truths about myself, and I’m actually a piece of shit?” Meaghan O’Connell on “How to Stay Married During a Pandemic.” [The Cut]
“Don't hate yourself. Hate your work." Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal lists “Eight Marvelous & Melancholy Things I’ve Learned About Creativity.” Lessons two and five were my favorites. Also six.
“But it’s the speed of decline that will leave its mark, convincing a generation that no matter how secure they feel today, it can be gone tomorrow. Literally, tomorrow.” Morgan Housel at Collaborative Fund on “What will stay with us, psychologically and culturally, long after we return to work?”
“I can remember sex before quarantine: the opposite of distancing, the opposite of illness, the opposite of restraint. I can remember the overflowing carts at the grocery store during the days when rumors of lockdown were still rumors: the woman hoarding cat food and instant coffee, the man whose arms were loaded with soap, as if he would do nothing but clean himself until the end of time.” Leslie Jamison on being a single parent with the coronavirus. [NYRB]
