Links from the bunny trail

Happy Friday!  It’s about time for a link roundup.  Merry Christmas, safe bubbling, and happy reading!

What we see in Dwight 

Dwight Schrute Was a Warning

I’m not the only one who is rekindling my affection for The Office during pandemic.  This article offers a few hypotheses as to why the fifteen-year-old show is having a moment now (people missing their actual offices; its classic gif-ability; etc), but it doesn’t mention the catalyst for my own rewatch: the relatively new podcast Office Ladies.

I love that this article thinks deep thoughts about Dwight Schrute, the office buffoon, and in doing so points out what makes The Office so enduring:  the combination of brilliant humor and piercing observation of human nature.

Dustin Nickerson on coping with covid

Also in the humor category:  “A Couple’s Guide to Covid” from Dustin Nickerson.

Includes such bedtime parenting gems as “You need to be asleep, unconscious or dead in the next thirty minutes.”

British vs. American

Continuing the Office theme, I pulled up this Atlantic article from the archives:  “‘The Office’: Why the American Remake Beats the British Original.”  British purists not withstanding, I wholeheartedly agree; in this case, the American version is better, because “where the British found despair, the Americans found hope...the British office was mean where the American office is nice.  And that’s better.”  

[And that’s saying something coming from me, who would rather watch a British period drama than a blockbuster rom-com.  As much as I love the American Office, I’ve struggled to get into the original.  Thank you, freelance writer David Thier, for putting into words what I can’t get past: the British Office is kinda mean.]

Dreamy getaways

Have you seen these oh-so-tempting offers from resorts around the world enticing remote workers to come and stay a while?  Here’s one in Aruba, and a ridiculous one in the Maldives that makes my heart flutter.

How to wrap a present

How can we not love when science proves that, in certain cases at least, being lazy and/or inept is better?  Apparently people like it better when their presents are not wrapped prettily.

For the recipe box

A whole wheat homemade sandwich bread recipe from The Kitchn that I’ve found quite nice.

Joe Biden

An informative primer on our presumptive 46th president, which mentions his middle name, his asthma, his tragic marital history, his stances on such social issues as abortion and LGBT policies, and how his faith and politics intersect.

Some good news

And ending on a decidedly cheery note:  I loved this story about a bride diagnosed with covid who still found a way, with her groom, to get married.  Here’s hoping this devoted groom can soon kiss the bride!