LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "Push The Pencils" Edition
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Dear folks,
In case you were wondering with bated breath, yes! Last week's newsletter was delivered to most every subscriber, sans spam warning.
I've commissioned a new crop of Mastheads. This one is in honor of Fashion Week, which started this past week.
This past Thursday 9/10, I found out that a work-friend's birthday is that day. We talked about how, of course, 14 years ago it was really weird to celebrate his birthday like normal, and then wake up the next day. And now his birthday is always "the day before 9/11."
My 9/11/01 was kind of terrifying, though thank goodness noone very close to me died. But everyone knew someone who lost someone very close to them, including me.
My personal recollections of what made it terrifying were:
I was 5 months pregnant with my 3rd kid and had two little girls whose first days of school were supposed to be 9/11 and 9/12. I had just walked 50 ft from the school entrance to the corner of 8th Avenue, turned south to go home, and looked up and saw the plane sticking out of the first building.
My husband was, just by chance, helping my brother-in-law move into a new office at 2 Broadway. So both my sister and I could not talk to them but knew they were in the literal shadow of the Towers.
My father was at work at 40 Broad St. Ditto.
It was the weird netherworld of very few/no more working payphones but also cel phone were not ubiquitous. So I had to walk home to get to a phone, but at that time didn't even realize what was happening (it was the very few minutes after the first plane struck when you were still thinking "oh, just a terrible accident?").
Then the cel network was jammed on purpose by the government and I realized that they could just turn that on and off. That was frightening, for some reason. The only way I reached people that morning was by AOL Instant Messenger, which worked.
We lived in the West Village, on the block of St. Vincent's Hospital, where hundreds of emergency and medical personnel had gathered to await the injured, but there were no injuries, no bodies. The doctors and paramedics were just standing in the loading/ambulance bay area for hours.
Later, hundreds and hundreds of "missing" signs went up, also hubbed around St. Vincent's, but it was fruitless.
Also, we had to show ID when passing this made-up "border" at 14th Street. In my recollection that lasted for a few weeks--but it could have been just a few days.
We gave up the stockpile of Cipro, gallons of water, canned food, and pre-packaged "emergency kit" a few years ago. (Well we do still have black beans and artisinal tuna, in cans, but that is unrelated to disaster preparedness). But our vestigal readiness plans still include a landline; enough cash on hand for 5 plane tickets to anywhere we could get a flight (at the time, cash machines ran out of money, which was also terrifying). We also have a known meeting place that, though sort of far away, we could each walk to in a couple of days' time.
The LZ Sunday Paper is usually not so depressing in the top note. If I hadn't written about 9/11 I would have written about how, after another kid has gone off to college, the three remaining NYC-dwelling family members got crazy on a…pens and pencils cleanse.
We have hundreds. Maybe a thousand. You know, accumulated from meetings, offices, bought to do homework, school projects, diaries, to-do lists, writing checks. You need pens and pencils! So far--and these are just "big bucket" rough categories awaiting further sub-division-- we have pens; magic markers; highlighters; Sharpies; pencils; colored pencils; mechanical pencils; pencil accessories; styluses. We even have a novelty pen category: highlights include the boxing kangaroo pen who punches his arms when you click the top in and out; and my personal favorite, the syringe pen. It doesn't squirt ink when you push the top but it really looks like a syringe.
We've had some rabid debates over whether "Felt tips" are "magic markers" or just "pens." Perhaps we will photograph some highlights from the collection and publish them next week. That will certainly be less depressing but also likely more of a waste of time, like sorting the pens in the first place was.
Well on that cheery note, let's give a warm welcome to Fashion Week!
And also to Rosh Hashanah. Happy New Year, everyone.
Please enjoy the last Sunday Paper edition of 5775--uplifting and/or depressing news as may come our way this week. Here's the roundup of Politics, Business, Tech, Digital, The Arts and Pop Culture--it's all here for you.
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Again-- Have a peaceful start to the New Year, from one Jewish lady in NYC who is very, very happy to be here, alive and well.
LZ
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
This Is What A Murderer Looks Like via The Marshall Project
NEWS & INSIGHTS:
Who's On? Who's Off? Fortune's List Of The Most Powerful Women Has Plenty Of Changes via Fortune
Pope Francis Tells Priests To Pardon Women Who Have Abortions via The Guardian
'It's Time To Move On': Ellen Pao Ends Her Lawsuit Against Kleiner Perkins via Forbes
Stephen Colbert's Writing Staff: 17 Men, 2 Women, All White via The Atlantic
Meryl Streep Wrote To Everyone In Congress, Got 5 Replies via Newser
Patricia Clarkson Says It Drives Her 'Crazy' That More Female Characters Can't Be Unlikable via The Washington Post
The Ms. Factor Tool Kit: The Power Of Female-Driven Content via The Producers Guild
Dude Reporter Learns What Happens When You Give Serena Williams A Hard Time For Not Smiling via New York Magazine
N.F.L. Cheerleaders' Wage Fight Gains Momentum via The New York Times
Bag Snob Launches Multi-Brand E-Commerce via The Business Of Fashion
Women Don't Need To Have Periods via The Atlantic
Women-Hosted Podcasts via The Transom
How To Date A Feminist via The F-Word
In Historic Move, Spee Club Invites Women To Punch via The Harvard Crimson
Hipster Barbie Is So Much Better At Instagram Than You via Wired
This Mom Created A Suit Collection For Girls Everywhere via Makers
Ayn Rand's Charlotte's Web via The Toast
Hollywood Sunset via The New Yorker
AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT:
How Two 18th Century Lady Pirates Became BFF's On The High Seas via Atlas Obscura
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