Chop Me Up Fine With Your Tiny Knife
The new "Take Me Away, Calgon"
Some weeks, there’s just nothing for it. You have to watch a full-sized person making a tiny gateau au chocolat using tiny kitchen implements for six minute and fifty-three seconds. So it’s very lucky that our dear friend Kait submitted exactly that via our Serotonin Boosters form, alerting us to an entire genre of YouTube videos of which we had previously been ignorant. Tiny food: it’s the new ASMR.
OR maybe you want to spend six minutes and fifty-four seconds learning about Brazilian Longboard Dancing by watching four exceptionally cool young women demonstrate it, :
Or maybe, like Dame Margaret, you want to watch both. There are MUCH worse ways to spend thirteen minutes and forty-seven seconds of your life.
Livetweet Reminder: Portrait of a Lady on Fire This Sunday, 2/14
Mais oui, mes amis! We Votre Dames will be hosting a special Valentine’s Day livetweet of Céline Sciamma’s gorgeous romantic drama, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. After fearing the movie could not possibly live up to my high expectations, I finally watched it on New Year’s Day 2021 (begin as you mean to go on, say I) and instead found it even better than I’d hoped. I wish so much that I had been able to see this one in theaters, but with your help, I can at least see it in community. The details:
When: 7:30pm ET on Sunday, February 14th
Where: With the hashtag #DamesOnFire on Twitter or in our Substack open thread (shared that Sunday).
How: Either streaming for free on Hulu, rented for as little as $1.99 on most streaming media platforms, or borrowed from your local library.
We gave you Christmas cheer that was actually cheering with The Muppet Christmas Carol in December, now let’s continue our Happiest Season Apology Tour by bringing you queer love you can really believe in.
The Empress Margaret’s New Links
Given that I believe The Emperor’s New Groove to be a nearly perfect film, I was delighted to read this extremely charming oral history of how it went from the somewhat self-serious Sting-scored musical drama it was conceived as to the comically absurd masterpiece it became.
In a similar vein, I really gloried in this lovely tribute to The Monster at the End of This Book, another piece of art that delivered perfection when mediocrity would have been accepted.
Given how much joy Mandy Patinkin and his wife Kathryn Grody have created with their social media videos throughout the pandemic, it’s so surprise that this profile of them is likewise delightful.
And finally, this thoughtful piece on the complicated semiotics of tiny floral prints and teen fashion longings made me both wish I had more peter pan collared items in my wardrobe and think a little more deeply about what message they might be sending.
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