June has been a whirlwind! From graduations to baseball, the start of professional softball in Hillsboro, and a trip to visit family go to Yellowstone, it’s been a great month! Here’s the pop culture that has helped me get through it all…
Reading
I’m about to finish Under the Influence which I am really enjoying. If you liked Yesteryear and wonder what it would be like to work for her, this is the book for you. I also read Wild Dark Shore which people have raved about since it came out. It was a great book, BUT as many of you know, I have a wildly irrational fear of whales (I blame Jonah) and I wasn’t expecting my deepest fears to come to life as I read “just one more chapter before bed” and proceeded to toss and turn for an hour. If you don’t have a fear of whales, it was a great story.
I’m halfway through Jenny Hagel’s memoir Advice No One Asked For and I am loving it! Hagel is a writer on Seth Meyers who I have enjoyed for years, especially her Jokes Seth Can’t Tell set, and this book is very funny. As always, a celebrity memoir is best listened to as an audiobook so you can get their tone and inflection.
Listening
Road trips with my nephews will always include a lot of Earth Wind & Fire (we’re taking them to their first concert in September to see EWF!) I also am enjoying Dave Grohl’s Summer Cookout Jams, it’s a great playlist for driving through Yellowstone, or hosting a summer cookout.
Colman Domingo and Greta Lee have been my two favorite episodes of Good Hang this month. Besides that there hasn’t been a good podcast to jump out at me lately.
Watching
It was a busy month of good TV shows wrapping up! I enjoyed the second season of Your Friends and Neighbors, and think we need more James Marsden in shows. If you haven’t watched Widow’s Bay it’s worth getting Apple TV to binge this horror comedy show. We absolutely loved it and I am THRILLED it’s getting a second season. That finale was almost perfect, and Ruth is amazing (he made a pass at me, she made a pass at me) it was a show I didn’t know I needed.
I blew right through The Four Seasons second season and then went right back and did a rewatch of both seasons. Tina Fey can do no wrong in my book, and she nails it with adult friendships, marriage, and that time of life. I love this show, even baby Gino. We also really enjoyed Office Romance, which was the light weekend rom com movie we needed. Brett Goldstein is so smart and hilarious.
Documentary wise, we really enjoyed Marty which I wasn’t honestly expecting. Martin Short isn’t my favorite but this documentary was wonderful, he is an awesome dad and a wonderful friend (and spouse). Highly recommend if you have ever laughed at his jokes, and bonus: Catherine O’Hara. In a completely different tone – I did watch Maternal Instinct and that woman is horrible. Someone on Threads mentioned if you like it you should watch/listen to Scamanda which I was enthralled with a while back and recommended on the blog. And yes, if you enjoyed the Scamanda podcast/documentary series, this is in that same vain of horrible young woman doing unthinkable things.
Okay, off to the coast for a few days with a large stack of books and a Roku stick to catch up on a few shows, I’ll be back with that recap in July!
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