LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "Land Line" Edition
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Readers,
A huge shelf that stored all of our photo albums, negatives, and loose photos fell down. So in the re-organizing process, my closets got a lot cleaner and neater. Marie Kondo would be proud. Well not really, because in real life you have to keep alot of things that do not give one joy. My examples: bubble wrap (in case we need it); batteries (pain in the neck gadgets that they go in); cat carrier & rabbit carrier (need when they go to the vet); line tester, various extra cables, lightbulbs; tool kit (blech to all); tax returns and other paperwork, assorted crap in a hideous filing cabinet (no joyfulness of any sort). But they are going to be very well arranged.
News Flash: Physical photos are very efficient. They bring joy. They are easy to sort and label. Therefore they are easy to find. Very easy to create an album. Very easy to throw out bad ones. Downside: harder to preserve for all eternity.
Conversely, the *idea* of digital photos is great. The reality is not so. It seems like it should be easier to sort them-- then locate individual pictures, store them, meta-data the living crap out of them. Except it's not. Upside: Keeping them forever is really easy. Except it turns out I'd like to dump 95% of the bajillions of iPhone photos we've taken over the past 10 or so years, but that process is so cumbersome off a hard drive it will never happen. Or at least it is less likely to happen than sorting the final couple of hundred of analog photos in a shoebox that got short shrift in between the analog and digital eras. Lord knows I'd like to dump 99.9% of my photos off social media, but I think the word "eternity" has found new life in the form of Google and Facebook and is now called "fuhgettaboudit, you're awful hair from 1999 is here to stay."
Just for fun, on various plane rides and moments of OCD'itis, I have also been "cleaning out" my Google address book. I'm up to the H's. On the one hand, it is very satisfying to get rid of people's ex-AOL email addresses, a fleet of Fax #'s, and remembrances of things past like your AIMs and MySpace pages. I see peers' long trail of corporate email addresses as they've moved up from divisional to corporate addresses; also as one company after another has merged and been subsumed by the bigger corporate parent. It's hard to fully "delete" people though, even when they've died! Or the many who I haven't talked to in years and years or, actually, maybe never talked to them in my life but have their info? Why I have Al Franken's cel phone # I just don't know. Contestants from Top Chef Masters? Maybe I need a hot reservation at some point, so I keep them? Camp friends' home addreses from 1978? Hey, you never know.
I wonder what the cutoff age is for people to remember their "home phone number." 20? 30? I certainly remember mine, along with favorite phone numbers from throughout my life. Perhaps the best one was the first one I had after college-- 995-0123. Then I liked my second one, which we had to get when we moved across 9th Street-- 645-7067. (Sorry if anyone now has those numbers and are going to get crank calls from Sunday Paper readers.) My first job/MTV Networks phone number was also really good! 258-2580. But now I think maybe I'm making up whether I actually had it or whether it was someone else's. Either way, what could have been better?
Truth be told, I never liked our current home phone number. That may have contributed to the motivation for why, in the recent closet purge, I took out our last remaining physical phone in the house as well as the associated answering machine. Just saying "answering machine" makes me embarrassed that we still had one. Until yesterday. We didn't dump it, however, before we recorded the messages on our iPhone from precious people from the past whose voices we have preserved on the machine for years and years. Some of whom are alive and very, very old. Some of whom are no longer with us. Now they're loaded onto our phones, onto the hard drive digital files -- or soon to be the freakin' *cloud* -- which noone can deal with as far as I can tell.
In the meantime, I'm digitally archiving every issue of The LZ Sunday Paper here. Whether or not anyone looks at them is entirely beside the point. I just like the fact that they, and I, can.
An Olympics-worthy celebration, this week, of all the news by and about women in the news. Politics, Business, and the best of High/Low culture. Please keep sending me more stuff you think is interesting here.
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See you next week for Oscar Sunday and a big welcome to March! Well actually I can't wait to get rid of March and get on to April, though there's a lot to be said for certain birthdays and Spring Break, so I won't wish it away too fast.
LZ
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
Do You Believe Her Now? The Case For Impeaching Clarence Thomas via New York Magazine
NEWS, POLITICS, BUSINESS:
A New Survey Finds 81 Percent Of Women Have Experienced Sexual Harassment via NPR
Who Is Dana Loesch? The NRA's Chosen Defender After The Florida Shooting via The Guardian
This Start-Up's Test Shows How Harassment Targets Women Online via Wired
General Counsel Pay Is Up…If You're A Man via Above The Law
SCIENCE:
Female Scientists Make Medicine Better For All Genders via Quartz
ARTS, SPORTS & POP CULTURE:
The Year Of The Male Apology In Film via Slate
'Black Panther:' How Letitia Wright Became A Marvel Breakout via The Hollywood Reporter
Nanny Case Is A Parents' Nightmare, Too Horrifying To See Up Close via The New York Times
Life After Life In Prison: The Bedroom Project via Photo Plus
Brows, Contour, Lips, Lashes: How The 'Full Beat' Face Took Over The Internet via The Washington Post
…AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT…THE OLYMPICS:
Stunning Photos Show The Evolution Of Women's Figure Skating Costumes via Huffington Post
An Olympic Figure Skater Who Also Made History For The New York Times via The New York Times
In Her Fifth and Final Olympics, Team USA's Only Mom Wins Her First Gold Medal via The Washington Post
Team USA Women Are Beating The Men In The Olympics Medals Count via Time
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