Happy Wednesday! How is your week going so far? It’s definitely one of those weeks where I can’t remember what day it is. We’re steadily making our way through August and inching ever closer to autumn. Hooray!
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A bit of a personal announcement. I adopted a cat! He’s 9 years old and a Maine Coon mix. He’s fluffy, dreamy, and really likes making sure I’m awake at 5am.
Let me introduce the Bitchery to Linus!
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If you’re curious as to why women’s clothing doesn’t have more pockets, I found this article to be incredibly interesting:
Much has been written about how sexism dictates whether a garment gets usable pockets. While class unquestionably plays a part, men’s clothing tends to have capacious, visible pockets; women’s clothing tends to have small pockets, if any at all. Content with their pockets, men have little to say about them, but women have been complaining about the inadequacy of their pockets for more than a century. “One supremacy there is in men’s clothing… its adaptation to pockets,” Charlotte P. Gilman wrote for the New York Times in 1905. She continues, “Women have from time to time carried bags, sometimes sewn in, sometimes tied on, sometimes brandished in the hand, but a bag is not a pocket.”
A BAG IS NOT A POCKET! Say it with me, fashion industry!
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Battery chargers!
Every few months a bigger, better, and lighter weight battery charger comes out. At this point I have 3 in various sizes—lipstick sized, 6.5oz, and the 12.5oz, which lives in our travel bag. I can recharge my kids' DS, tablets, my phone, etc, before it runs out of charge. - SW
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If you’re looking to add more Filipino romances to your TBR pile, @Chachic_ on Twitter has some recommendations and many of which are 99c!
Thread of #romanceclass titles currently 0.99usd for #BuwanNgMgaAkdangPinoy. This is your chance to read Filipino-romance-in-English!
— Chachic (@chachic_) August 7, 2017
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In the chance you ever get lost while hiking or doing whatever else people do in the wilderness, Atlas Obscura has some handy tips for wayfinding:
Tristan Gooley is an expert at what he calls “natural navigation.” In a series of fascinating books, most recently How to Read Water, but also The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and The Natural Navigator: The Rediscovered Art of Letting Nature Be Your Guide, he shares incredibly useful tips and insights aimed at helping people notice simple truths about the world around them. Gooley’s particular genius is that once he shows you something about nature that you didn’t realize before, you’ll never be able to not see it again.
Recently, we sat down with Gooley and asked him to share five of his favorite natural navigation tricks with Atlas Obscura readers. The illustrator Chelsea Beck then took Gooley’s concepts and created gorgeous animations for each one. The words that accompany them are Gooley’s.
Not sure if I’ll remember any of these, but it’s pretty helpful regardless
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Food artist, David Ma, has started a video series combining food porn while mimicking famous directors’ styles. So far, there are four videos, with my favorite being “What if Tarantino made Spaghetti & Meatballs?” but the Wes Anderson one is a close second.
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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
Linus is gorgeous! Have fun brushing him!
The more cats, the better!
Is it me, or is the link to your cat picture broken?
@Jean Russell: The image is embedded from Instagram, so if Instagram is being fussy, it might not load right away. It seems to be working for me now!
Kitty so FLUFFY!
Oh, and I have years of rant stored up about women’s work pants. Pockets are a large part of it, although not all. For now, suffice it to say that about 1/3 of us at my job have happily gone over to all man-pants, all the work days.
The (usually younger and dating-conscious) ones who still wear the flimsy ladies-wear are at a constant disadvantage, having to run to the employee area every time they need something (we can’t keep bags/packs with us in the work space). The men’s pants are also thicker and tougher, even mens summer weight versus ladies winter weight, and last 3 times as long. I’m short, so the cargo pockets usually hit me at knee height, which is fine with me. I may have to reach a little for them, but it’s comfortable, no less flattering than some of the ugly choices I had for women’s pants, and I can carry everything I need for the day. *stops herself* Yeah, so many thoughts on that topic! 😛
You mean there are cats that DON’T wake you up at 5am?! Mine weaves around my head and starts rubbing against me and licking my toes. Sigh! Joy
I’m a dog person, but I must say that is one adorable cat!
Linnus is gorgeous. I recommend meowbox or kitnip box. Monthly box of cat toys.
Yay for older rescues! (And all ones really.)<3
Linus is very cute! I just spent an uncomfortable amount of time stalking your Instagram. Sorry. (I love your tattoo!)
@Megan M: Thank you! It’s my first one and I love it more each day. Elyse has an awesome watercolor book tattoo in the same spot, but on her right arm (I believe).
Maine coons are amazing. I haven’t really been a cat person since I adopted mine and realized it was like living with my boss at home, only…no perks. But a dear friend has 2 and they are amazingly personable, even to convince me! Linus is a cutie!
Linus is beautiful. Congratulations to both of you for finding each other!
Congratulations on your new furry relationship! May you have many wonderful years together.
*Cats are Awesome*
Yay kitty! Congrats!
Oh wow, I love Elyse’s tattoo, too! I really need to get one.
Amanda, do you follow robert_sijka (Felis Gallery) on Instagram? He photographs Maine Coons and they are gorgeous. Like Linus. 🙂
@Darlynne: I do! His cats look like fuzzier versions of a lion.
Linus looks awfully happy! How wonderful you have adopted an older cat-I hope you have many happy years together.
Welcome, Linus! My kitty is also named Linus… I adopted him right before Halloween 🙂
He is a beautiful boy, wishing you lots of joy and happy times together.
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Congratulations on adopting your fur-baby!
Re: pockets in women’s clothing–my 14yo daughter insists on buying boy’s/men’s jeans (despite being curvy) because she wants bigger pockets than she finds available for her. I don’t blame her. With cell phones as ubiquitous appendages, pockets are a must.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman being in her stealth mode as a NYT reporter seems understated here.
Congrats on your new fur baby! And it has only come to my attention that you shared my Twitter thread of Filipino romances!! Thank you so much. This makes me so happy, I hope the Bitchery was able to find some good ones from that list.