HI APW!
It’s the end of Spring Break, which was catch-up week for me, while my kid was in nanny care with one of his most beloved people ever. Next week I’ll be back to skipping more work than I should to play ball with him, which sounds good to me.
In the meantime, Maddie and I are headed to The Bold Italic’s Love/Make expo in San Francisco on Sunday and you should come too! We have it on good authority that we’ll be right at the top of the stairs on the second (bigger) floor, right by the bar and the Photobooth. Which is where you want to be anyway, amiright?
XO,
MEG
P.S. We had a bang up #APWentrepreneurship conversation on Instagram this week about learning to say no. Go catch up, if you haven’t already.
Highlights of APW This Week
I don’t want to watch rape scenes. My partner doesn’t get it.
Me and him… and her.
Buying the imperfect wedding dress.
Planning a destination wedding in Mexico when you’re not rich for $13K.
Pastel eye makeup for your wedding! Back issues of Tiger Beat not included.
A quintessential New York elopement in Grand Central Terminal. Or perhaps you’d rather get married at New York City Hall? We’ve got you covered.
Because you can’t put emotions into a spreadsheet.
Link Roundup
Around the web
You have to buy Elle magazine in print this month to get the full article on my-favorite-teenager Tavi Gevinson interviewing Maddie’s-favorite-complicated-pop-star Miley Cyrus, but it’s worth every penny. In that moment where I thought, “I wasn’t as smart as Tavi at eighteen,” I remembered what eighteen was actually like. I was pretty damn smart, actually, if not as worldly. Eighteen-year-olds normally are.
“You can make money doing anything if you work hard and good at it.” From selling crack to college, on work ethic and hustle. Powerful, correct. I cried.
The ladies over at the Man Repeller on what beauty means, and not wearing makeup. Or, being fucking awesome as usual.
For the other art school grads in the house, “What I Wish I Knew After My MFA Ended.” Not that I have a graduate degree in… anything. But good advice for art and life.
Emma Stone calls out Andrew Garfield on his casual sexism at a press conference.
We’re glad commenters are, “Oh, shut up,” to this bitchy article about unplugged weddings.
What is to come with clemency under the Obama administration. (This may sound boring, but it’s a great read about an important subject.)
NYPD Twitter photo contest is going… not so swimmingly for them.
The invisible benefits of gaming while male.
Speaking of rape scenes making people feel awful, how about that rape scene in Game of Thrones last Sunday? Yeah, we hated it too.
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