Wear, Watch, Want #171: The Tall, Warm Musical Edition
Wear: Anthropologie Blanket Cardigan
I wrote about how I wanted a “big, interesting cardigan” in WWW 163, and during Anthro’s black Friday sale I bought one of them. The Rosetta Cardigan is, in my mind, a blanket with sleeves, and a sort of vague cardigan shape. It’s a big, one size only square, with little sleeves on the sides. It is PERFECT for wearing when you want to be snuggled up in a blanket, but you also need to move around occasionally. It’s incredibly warm and not itchy and I wear it almost every day.
Listen: Hit Parade
One of my favorite podcasts is Slate’s Hit Parade, which broke my heart earlier this year by deciding to only be available to Slate Plus members. I am not a Slate Plus member, and I don’t consume enough Slate content to justify a membership, so I was supremely bummed to find out I wouldn’t be able to hear my favorite music chart trivia show anymore. Then, a few weeks ago, I thought maybe I’d listen to some old episodes, and there were NEW episodes that were FREE. HIT PARADE WAS BACK! Now the episodes are split into two parts, released two weeks apart, but if you’re a Slate Plus member you can listen to it all in one go. Plus, the interstitial trivia episodes, The Bridge, are Slate Plus only. But those weren’t my favorite anyway!
OH perhaps you need some background on WHAT this podcast I love is about? Maybe? Hit Parade is a show about music chart history. Host Chris Molanphy intro an episode with something like, “35 years ago this week, Whitney Houston had 3 of the top 5 songs on the Billboard Chart” (This is a made up fact because I don’t want to look up a real one, but you get the gist), and then he’ll take you through a whole history, how this scenario came to be, and offer up a lot of really interesting trivia, with clips of so many (SO MANY!) songs interspersed throughout. I started listening to just the episodes that piqued my interest, but then I went back and listened to them all, because there is always something in every episode that I’m interested in! In the Phil Collins episode, we learn that Phil Collins is emo as HELL and when he’d experience heartbreak, he’d lock himself in his house for weeks and then come out of his funk having written “In the Air Tonight.” Now I think about Emo Phil Collins every time I hear one of his songs.
Want: Tall NIghtstand
I am finally getting the bedrooms in my house really and truly decorated. But I’ve hit a snag when it comes to a nightstand for my guest bedroom. Did you know that nightstands are SHORT? In my bedroom I’m using a small dresser as a nightstand, and my former guest room setup had a dresser next to the bed as well, but not that I’ve moved things around and my guest room needs a nightstand, I cannot find one that doesn’t seem SUPER short. I have had antique and second hand furniture my whole life, and now that I’m shopping mainstream websites like Target I have learned that nightstands are 24” tall??? And I live a 30” tall lifestyle??? Honestly, how are you normies who get brand new furniture LIVING?? I finally found a 30” tall nightstand that I like (this one) but it’s SO expensive! It’s to replace a second hand dresser I got for $60! I am BAFFLED.
