Friday Five: January 21, 2022

open for delight

We made it to another week, and that means another edition of Friday Five, your weekly digest of content meant to spark joy, create comfort, or give you a deep sigh of relief. Welcome to all the gorgeous, perfect, and incredible new subscribers here! I hope you stay for a while and get cozy.

Song: I first discovered Bobby Caldwell’s “Open Your Eyes” after hearing Common sample it in “The Light.” “Open Your Eyes” feels like the warm sun on your skin, swirling honey into tea, and singing karaoke with your friends. “There is a light that shines, special for you and me” is so tender and sweet, like this entire song.

Newsletter: Writer, author, poet, and artist Annika Hansteen-Izora’s newsletter is all about joy. I’m a brand new subscriber, after being moved by the most recent edition with this dazzling passage on the new year. Nearly every line reads like a meditation — savor this with a warm beverage or snuggled in a blanket:

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Local News Sensation: Carter Trozzolo is exhausted. This eleven-year-old good samaritan spent his snow day shoveling for his family, neighbors, and ‘for people he doesn’t even know’ and he is TIRED!!! At this point in time, we are all Carter Trozzolo. *exhales deeply*

Meaghan Derynck @MeaghanDerynck

One of my favourite kids was on the news tonight in Toronto and I have officially died. I’m dead. The name plate alone. Gold.

Recipe: This chicken and rice soup with garlicky chili oil is an antidote for cold weather, gloominess, and exhaustion. I have been coming back to it for years and it truly is the kind of comforting, warm dish that you need in your cooking arsenal. I have used multiple types of rice in this recipe, subbed the water for broth, and often double the chili oil because I go through it quickly. It’s always divine.

this soup is a really big dill

Joyful Internet Content:

kcl @kycarrerolopez

LOVE irish names. you’ll read kyaiourjnteai and ask how it’s pronounced and they’ll be like ‘courtney :)’

pj evans @pjayevans

Loudly asking “what song is this?” while people sing Happy Birthday

Alison Williams @therealalisonw

we are the daughters of the bajas that couldn’t blast

Frasier Gun @KrangTNelson

no movie should cost more than 85 million dollars to make. why 85 million? bc thats how much it cost to make oceans 11. you want 200 million to make your superhero movie? is your movie going to be twice as good as oceans 11? I didn't think so.. take a hike pal

aspiring gothic romance heroine @haveoneonmemp3

why is this on goodreads

Cat Elgarrista @cat_elg

no offense but if my friend was pushing me non stop to eat green eggs and ham i’d kick his fucking ass

casper moon @mountbellyache

CAPYBARA MAN @CAPYBARA_MAN

“don’t go alone, take this”

ً @cxrtezs

dads be like “go help your mother” bro go help your wife

soul nate @MNateShyamalan

new york twitter is insane to witness as an outsider. someone will tweet some shit like “nobody has worse shoes than people catching the W at east smigleyville.” and then 10,000 people will be like YES EXACTLY I AM ALWAYS SAYING THIS.

Rodger Sherman @rodger

Nickelodeon has been dumping slime on people for at least 30 years and it hasn't gotten old yet. Entire entertainment empires have risen and fallen and yet the slime persists. They slimed before I was born and will continue sliming after I die

f*zzii @fvzziii

I’ve done alot of stupid things but watching euphoria on the living room tv in an immigrant household definitely tops the list

@humanaaron @humanaaron

Red Rover was the best game because it combined popularity contests, feats of strength, hostage extraction and stockholm syndrome

rice @412ricefarmer

Bro was dealing w the wrong Bucks his entire life💀

Ellen Pontok @a_lolbrarian

We went to the planetarium today and when the voiceover said “this is the earth” one of the kids booed

Layla Schlack @laylaschlack

Lisa Bonet pulls a flip phone out from under the bed, Jason Momoa asleep next to her. "We created a hotter man," the scientist on the other end whispers urgently. "It's time." She hangs up, turns on the fireplace and tosses the phone in. Momoa stirs. "We need to talk, she says.

Caleb Cassell @ItsLikeCastle

Fuddruckers is a beautiful name for a baby girl

Reading The Cheesecake Factory Menu for the next ten hours,

Fuddruckers Roya