vol #40: the loveliest time, retirement & martinis
good morning princesss
anyway, welcome back (okay, presumptuous of me!!!) to sent from my iphone with love, your hot links to epic things that i have found On The Line and the irl bit, which is hot reccos for Real Life Living™
she’s so me. pic by francesca rowse
this is the online bit
fboy island usa
mia is living in my room at the moment, just in time for us to both catch that goddamn super flu (not covid- retro!). because mia was an early flu adopter, and hasn’t left my room in a few days, she’s started claiming squatters rights, which apparently includes unfettered access to my phone charger and my favourite side of the bed. i’m not a lawyer but i’m pretty sure that’s not how it works.
i don’t know if it was the fluey haze, delirium, or if it is legitimately good viewing, but we watched both seasons of fboy island usa in 2 days. i know i’ve written about fboy island aus before, but there’s truly nothing to make an australian show look pathetic like seeing the american budget. plus the show was SO much better. for a start, the men are actually hot (well, equally hot and revolting). nikki glaser is hilarious. the show crafts a multi seasonal storyline, complete with easter eggs for fans to feel understood and appreciated. true george r. r. martin shit. f boy island season 3 will be my barbie.
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if there’s one thing mid 2000s free to air tv taught me, is that a british palette is beige. my girl charly is not beating the allegations. she’s sweet and funny and there’s something morish about her videos. it makes me nostalgic for a phase liv and i went through where we only watched louis theroux docs or trisha paytas mukbang videos. the brain stays off!!!!!!
the loveliest time, carly rae jepson
slaps. truly. obviously my main reference point to our girl is her o.g. banger, call me maybe, but she’s turned it the hell up since then. this guy i know made a tiktok about kollage (my favourite song on the album), where he compared it to kali uchis, the marías and the free nationals. she reposted it on her story with the caption “logan roy trying to fit a whole woman in his head”. pretty funny.
more pics from francesca rowse from her series called maids, photographing cornish girls
this is the irl bit
retirement
i am, as the tiktok girlies would say, in my retirement era.
the awesome thing about retirement is you have so much time. the awkward thing is the only fun thing to do is to spend money - and apparently it’s frowned upon to start a go fund me if you just wanna take a break for a bit. now i understand why other retirees want to spend so much time sitting on a porch doing find-a-words. much cheaper than a cruise.
martinis
i’m so into martinis. not in a bar planet way, but in a straight to the point kinda way. just like negronis. classy. not wasting anyones time. know what they’re about. you gotta respect the form.
hanging out in parks
i know london is a little lacking on the beach front, so i’ve been assimilating with my soon-to-be culture by not only exploring the local fare and doing some hanging out in parks. in case you were wondering, over the course of my life i have noticed a direct correlation between my employment and the amount of time i’ve spent in parks.
proof of direct correlation
parks in cities are a lot different from parks in suburban locations. the parks of my suburban youth were made up of middle class kids trying to get fingered, whilst the parks of my adult years seem to be made up solely of couples actually fingering, or slack liners. in terms of city park locals, i don’t know what’s more offensive.
one of my favourite locations was this park i frequented when i was unemployed and lived in france (in a studenty way, not a baronessy way), whose occupants the were comprised near entirely of people getting pissed on supermarket rose or play fighting with wooden swords (it was the salad days of game of thrones). all i’m saying is a) you’re not going to get any better people watching than at 2pm on a tuesday on a patch of grass and b) pr team for france is really working over time to maintain the facade of chic.
enjoy your day hope to see you at a park soon xxx x x x