Friday Five: May 23, 2025
let the chips fall where they May
It’s Friday, Consumers. I’m back with the Friday Five, your roundup of cathartic, joyful content from across the corners of the digital universe (and my mind).
I’m starting us off with a poem from late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, titled “Think of Others.” I’ve been thinking about it all week. Relatedly, here are some mutual aid groups working to feed people in Gaza — you can learn about these groups and support them here.
Next, I’ve got a TV show recommendation: Shonda Rimes’ The Residence is a who-dun-it with intrigue, great set design, and a very different return to the White House from her Scandal days. Uzo Aduba is an incredible lead who makes me want to take up bird-watching, something I would have never entertained. Also, if you enjoyed Brooklyn Nine-Nine, there is something that will warm your heart about this series but you’ll have to wait until the very end to find out…
In a dose of music and nostalgia, The All-American Rejects have kicked off a ‘house party’ tour, which is exactly what it sounds like. In lieu of overpriced venues, fans can nominate their city for a show and the concert is free (suggested $5 donation at the door). For their LA show, they teamed up with the sensational young band TRUEBLOOD (you’re getting a two-for-one here if you don’t know them) and their drummer didn’t miss a single beat. I enjoyed this Missouri public radio interview with AAR about the tour: “We played this random house party, and it was like, of all the shows we played in the last ten years, it was, like this big wake up call to the reality of, “oh, this is why we started doing this.” We played in house shows. We played backyards, VFWs and I just told my manager, I go, ‘that worked, let's do that.’” ‘Remember why you started’ is an incredible motivator…
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Short Film aka Long Form TikTok/Reel: This video is months old but I saw it last night and let out some tee-hee-hees. Real giggles, ones I needed. Fun fact: they’re standing in front of a famously haunted house in Greenpoint, the Oak Street Manor (amazing street to walk down, it’s a rare C-shaped street in NYC). So, he could indeed be a ghost.
Joyful Internet Content:
This brilliant little girl is giving us all one big reminder to stop and smell the flowers:
First toilet featured in Consumed history, but come on… she is stunning:
Olives do not belong in burritos IMO but this is still cute.
I desperately want this potato salad recipe but similarly I am thinking about a family friend’s family friend who made the best lemon bars for every party at their house. Once or twice a year, I will try to search for a similar recipe — the filling was a creamy opaque lemon curd, the topping was some sort of crumble… no sweet treat compares to this random Iranian auntie’s lemon bars. I hope she’s doing well.
The second comment:
Thinking about my corporeal concentration of blueberries,
Roya
Beautiful poem Baba!❤️❤️❤️
3% blueberries 😩