Can I pay you to forget this?
Art: The Lawyers, Honore Daumier, 1854This is going to be a quick one because I have to go watch the second season of Succession, but I’ve been watching the...
A year in Normland
Art: Woman Writing a Letter, Frans Van Mieris, 1680Last time this year, seven months pregnant, but still somehow exhibiting less outward signs of physical...
Send help, I am watching Frozen 2
Art: Sisters, Mary Cassatt, 1885I am normally normcoreishly against passive screentime for kids, but all rules have gone out the window during quarantine,...
We are all Gaga now
Art: The Martyrdom of St. Lucy, Domenico Veneziano, 1445In 2019, Lady Gaga, who has 81 million followers, tweeted randomly, “Fame is prison.” The responses...
On watching Succession
Art: Family of the Businessman B. H. Strousberg, Ludwig Knaus (1870) The first weekend of The Plague, when I thought I actually had The Plague, I was...
Your mattress as a service
Artwork: Paul Cezanne, The Card Players, 1890I wouldn’t wish having a newborn on my worst enemy. However, one of the really nice benefits is that you get to...
Instacart on my mind
Art: Flower Store and Dairy Store, Childe Hassam, 1888Since we are trying to avoid public places as much as possible, Instacart is how we get our food. As a...
Google Drive is production
Art: Composition with Grid IX, Piet Mondrian, 1919A couple weeks ago, Jack Dorsey tweeted that he was donating money to fighting COVID. A whole lot of money....
What I'm doing differently online
This is going to be a quick post because I’m catching up on what I missed since I was WFF most of the week (if you’ve emailed me and haven’t gotten an...
It's time to build - if you have the bucks
Art: The Builders, Fernand Leger, 1955Over the weekend, while I was watering a terrarium with my daughter, cutting up bananas for my son, trying to clean up...
An empty Google doc of my own
Art: Figure at a Window, Salvador Dali, 1925Vicki’s Note: Normcore is taking a break for Passover, and will be back the week of 4/20. One of the things I’m...
Re-entering the bardo
Art: Ocean Waves, Katsushika HokusaiA couple months ago, I went back to work after maternity leave, and described the mood of maternity leave as being in the...
Congrats, you're the CEO now
Art: Portrait of General Thomas Gage, John Singleton Copley, 1768Reality sucks right now, so let’s play pretend. Let’s make believe that you’re the CEO of a...
The eye of the new norm
I am writing this post sitting on a couch completely surrounded by blocks, teething toys, wipes, pages slapped together with glitter glue, and an iPad that...
Any port in a storm, as long as it has facemasks
Art: Georges Braques, Ships at Le Havre, 1905Last week, a woman posted in my local Nextdoor group, asking people to please, please donate PPE - personal...
Is this a STEM lesson?
Art: Needlepoint in a Russian Village, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, 1936It seems like, with the situation lately, everyone is trying to homeschool their kids....
We need tests, we're getting geotracking
Art: Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880, before he started socially distancing Ok, if we’re at the end of the world, we might as well examine the...
Normcore is coming to you from a social distance
Art: DIN, Vladimir Bonacic, 1969Sorry if this is one of a million coronavirus newsletters you’re getting, but it’s hard to think about anything else given...
All numbers are made up, some are useful
Art: Number 1, Jackson Pollock, 1949There was a fantastic American game show in the 2000s, “Whose Line is it Anyway”, where the participants were given an...
The sound of music
Art: The San Giobbe Altarpiece Detail of Music Making Angels, Giovani Bellini, 1480Stuff is really stressful right now. It’s usually stressful, but with the...