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What’s In My Pocket Friday

January 27, 2017 By AJ Leave a Comment

Best of the web — and in the world

Confession: I love falling asleep at night watching television in bed. That’s a genuine sleep. Like, if you pass out watching something on TV that you put on with the intent to finish, that is some real-tired. And it’s a good sleep. Not like that sleep you fall into when you lay there for an hour, trying to force your brain to shut off, praying the sleep will eventually come. Last night was the first night in ages, in fact, when I slept straight through to my alarm waking me up the next morning in quite some time. Real sleep is the business. 

ANYWAY…. 

Friends, enjoy these things that are presently giving me all the feels.

What's In My Pocket Friday

  • The problem with watching a Tasty video, is you end up actually watching like NINE Tasty videos.

  • This week, the nation’s zoos had a Twitter battle in which they just all posted photos of their cutest animals. This is why social media was invented, folks. It was amazing.
  • When do the Obamas come back from vacation? I don’t like the substitute teacher…. But did you catch the launch of the Obama Foundation? Looks promising. I’m basically down for whatever Bae wants to do.

What's In My Pocket Friday - Best of the web -- and in the world

  • I’m excited to be speaking at Dad 2.0 in February! I’ll be on a panel to discuss influencer marketing. What inappropriate overshare will I offer this time? Stay tuned….
  • My “Hollywood Brunch” instagram account is picking up! Make sure you’re following me here.
  • I took this quiz on Buzzfeed that assures me I am definitely over 30 (THANKS BUZZFEED). I liked it because it made me ever so nostalgic for the good ol’ days of MTV.

What's In My Pocket Friday - Best of the web -- and in the world

  • I shall conclude with NORBERT. I guess Norbert has been a thing for a while but I just discovered him and OMG is he the CUTEST! Just watch him give little high fives….

Filed Under: Pocket Fridays Tagged With: Buzzfeed, MTV, Nachos, Norbert the dog, Obama, Obama Foundation, Tasty

What’s In My Pocket Friday

November 23, 2016 By AJ Leave a Comment

Best of the web — and in the world

Best of the web? Yes. Best of the world? That, also. I reached a tipping point this week when I was watching some ass-clown I refuse to reference by name at a white supremacist meeting (Call it what you want, National Policy Institute) give a speech that essentially set civil rights and basic, human ethics back 100 years. The next day I watched another bigot announce to his “conservative” brothers and sisters that they needed to boycott Target because of their extreme leftist policies — you know, the ones that embrace diversity and compassion. (And by the by, I am filled with warmth seeing how many people liked and shared this tweet yesterday and today. Keep up the good work!)

I realized that today, tomorrow and in the days following, I need to keep my focus on some of the good in the world because there is plenty of it left, no matter how the news makes us feel. So please know that while I am still filled with the fire of a thousand suns, in this little pocket of the universe, in this moment, there is only goodness and warmth.

What's In My Pocket Friday

  • Take a moment and watch just a little of the ceremony held at The WHite House this week wherein President Obama gave out 21 Presidential Medals of Freedom. President Obama has given out more of these Medals than any other President in our history.

What's In My Pocket Friday - Best of the Web

  • You may not recall, but three years ago, President George H.W. Bush shaved his head in solidarity with a young boy, Patrick, who was battling Leukemia. Now three years later, former President Bush has let everyone know on Twitter that Patrick is better!
  • Michael J. Fox joined Dave Matthews on stage at a recent show to raise money for Parkinson’s Disease research… and banged out an impressive guitar solo:

  • Meet Ed Moseley, an 86-year-old grandfather in Georgia, who doesn’t believe you are ever too old to learn something new. He recently taught himself to knit so he could make caps for premature newborns.
  • Get ready for pure, complete joy. This mom surprised her children with a puppy adoption.

And if that doesn’t do it, more goodness…

  • COMEDY IS GOOD! Putting some good old-fashioned pragmatism to work here, I realized that if I need a laugh, I just need to watch something funny, right? I’ve been watching the hell out of comedy specials on Netflix. John Mulaney’s is my favorite.

  • MUSIC IS GOOD! Especially holiday music. I do recognize that first, it’s early, and second, some people are not the type to listen to this music too much nor too often, but for me, bring it. It cheers me right up. I create a playlist for holiday music every year on Spotify and working on the playlist alone brings a smile to my face.
  • PUPPIES ARE GOOD! Kittens are also welcome. Please see BUZZFEED ANIMALS for all the cuteness you will ever need and more. I subscribe to their “puppy a day” newsletter and I love to read this page for a pick-me-up. Like this story about “Quantico” star Priyanka Chopra who liked the puppies at her Buzzfeed photoshoot so much, she just adopted one of them on the spot.

Just to be clear, I’m not trying to diminish how messed up things are right now. Because they are. And I promise I will not sit idly by and do nothing about it. Sometimes I get indescribably furious and sometimes I just cry. But most of the time, I allow what I am feeling to empower and inspire me. Here is a good site that may do the same for you (but if you don’t like curse words, stay away). I admire my strong friends who are taking a big stand and have jumped full-throttle into activism (read this – GO MEGHAN!). But for these few minutes spent writing (and for you, reading) this post, everything was positive — I think it’s important we remember things like these are happening. Now more than ever.

Filed Under: Pocket Fridays Tagged With: Buzzfeed, Ellen Degeneres, holiday music, Medal of Freedom, Michael J. Fox, Mulaney, netflix, Obama, Priyanka Chopra, Puppies, what's good

What’s In My Pocket Friday

July 11, 2016 By AJ Leave a Comment

What’s In My Pocket, Friday? The best of…. something.

This was meant for Friday, but I did not have the will to finish it on Friday. Today I decided I needed it.

While I’ve not posted here or in my other blog in a rather embarrassing amount of time, it suddenly seemed important to me to put something out into the world that wasn’t… dark. I’m overwhelmingly sickened by the state of the world right now and if you thought I was laughing before, I’m downright hysterical now.

So here are things I’ve saved in my “pocket” that, hopefully, will make us all feel a little better — even if only for a short while.

What's In My Pocket Friday

If you don’t know who Justin Tranter is, you probably know his music. He’s responsible for Gwen Stefani’s new album, most of Selena Gomez’s, a lot of Britney, a lot of Bieber… I know Justin because we share a mutual friend dating back to college when we saw him play with his band, Semi Precious Weapons, at the coffee shop at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square. (His former bassist, Cole Whittle, now plays for DNCE.)

Anyway, the day after a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 at Pulse in Orlando last month, Justin got on a plane. He lent a hand wherever he could but he wanted to do more. The result is “Hands,” a track released earlier this week that features Selena Gomez, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani, Mary J. Blige, Pink, Juanes, Kacey Musgraves, Adam Lambert and many more. Proceeds from the song, available exclusively on iTunes, will benefit Equality Florida, the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida and Glaad.

Similarly, the Broadway community came together on an episode of “Maya and Marty” to sing their iTunes single for charity. It’s rather beautiful:

Music brings me a lot of peace and joy. So do puppies. My friend Lisa got a new puppy and I love each and every photo she shares of her on Instagram. And since I absolutely refuse to sit on the internet all day reading the news at this point, I choose to have the puppy cam on.

This post on Facebook made me laugh:

 And I thought this video Rufus Wainwright posted on Facebook was beautiful:

If you just need a good, great, gut-busting laugh? Well then you should click over to Buzzfeed for some hilarious tweets about kids!

 

3yo (in bathroom): Mummy, can I put this sticker on Daddy’s card?
Me (in bed): Yes.
3yo: Will he love it?
Me: Yes. pic.twitter.com/TJepUORQwH

— Sarah Dempster (@Dempster2000) June 21, 2015

This quote also struck me as rather serene and I wanted to conclude with it:

What's In My Pocket Friday

Filed Under: Pocket Fridays Tagged With: Buzzfeed, Hallelujah, Hands, Justin Tranter, Maya and Marty, Music, Orlando, Puppies, Rufus Wainwright

"Today I will be classy and elegant. Or, I will spill on my shirt and trip over things."

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