Do they have Summer Fridays in Canada?
A Friday Night Likes for everyone stuck in weekend traffic, eh?
Welcome back to the reimagined Friday Night Likes - where we play a Friday night game of Gratitude Ping Pong™ naming the things and experiences we loved during the week that are free or low-cost. You know, the best things in life!
Here’s how it works: we’ll start with one thing we liked this week, then continue sharing gratitude back and forth to see how far away we can get from the original "like" before bringing it back for a full circle TGIF moment.
This week, we begin and end with Summer Fridays and take a detour to Vanity Plates in the middle – but we’ll let you connect the gratitude dots for yourself.
Rachel: Hooray for SUMMER FRIDAYS, BABY! I’m pretty sure today is the first official Friday of summer and I like Summer Fridays. Even though I’ve not worked a “normal” job in 20 years, I love feeling like everyone in the city is starting to let loose a little bit, and that’s the world I want to live in.
Jamie: I like Summer Fridays, baby and I like this baby who is ready for Summer Fridays. Or at least a trip to the Four Seasons Orlando.
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Rachel: I like vacation too, you little Summer Friday baby. I’m constantly thinking about vacation. I was hoping to make it abroad this year, but we might only make it to Canada, which I also like, but is not exactly “abroad.”
Jamie: I like this construction worker from Edmonton, Canada who is playing a delicate tune at a public library in full coveralls. So sweet.
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Rachel: I like libraries, especially the Brooklyn Public Library, which is closing for the three day weekend so the staff can have a real holiday. The library is the best indoor place to be a person, especially a person who doesn’t want to spend money, so we should all be shouting from the rooftops about the library budget cuts happening right now … just like Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
Jamie: I like Ebon Moss-Bachrach from his days on Girls, but I especially love him as “Cousin” on The Bear, which, in an effort to prevent spoilers, I’ll describe as a family drama about the owners of a sandwich shop.
Rachel: I am the only person in America who doesn’t watch The Bear, but I like sandwiches, and this week I ate a lot of sandwiches, the best of which was from our local butcher - Prospect Butcher Co. on Vanderbilt Ave. They are a worker-owned small business and they are the goddamn best.
Jamie: I liked your Roast Beef with horseradish, but liked my Ham with cornichons even better. And I like that we got to eat it outside because it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood. I like beautiful days in the neighborhood because it means we get to walk everywhere and see a bunch of fun things, like this vanity plate:
Rachel: This reminds me of a vanity plate I used to see a lot on this sort of kidnapper-style van that was really scary, until you saw the plate which read: “FEEEEEEL”.
I like that vanity plates have gotten more clever over the years. I feel like there was a resurgence of VPs after everybody and their grandma got a car during Covid, my favorite being “EW AS IF”.
Jamie: Agreed, I wish I had thought of that one. Speaking of vanity, I like our new headshots. I don’t want Carly Simon to come after us, but I do feel like these two ladies might have one eye in the mirror as they watch themselves gavotte.
Rachel: I love “You’re So Vain” because of the brilliant lyrics, but I recently discovered I don’t actually know them very well. I always thought that she said “watched yourself GO BY” and then I also thought she said “some underworld spy or the wife of a POSTMAN” instead of “wife of a close friend” and you corrected me.
Jamie: Ya - I love when I get to correct you on lyrics, now let’s go back to the pictures.
Rachel: I like Lydia Hudgens- who took these pictures a few weeks ago, and taught me how to “strike a pose” even though I am the most awkward person when a camera is pointed at me. I prefer to be behind the microphone, working on our podcast, you know?
(What Rachel really looks like)
Jamie: I like our weird little podcast studio - where we record Debt Heads and other fun things. Did you know that Debt Heads was, at one time, the 162nd most popular mental health podcast…. In Canada?
Rachel: Sounds like a place that has its mental health priorities in order. Do you think they have Summer Fridays in Canada?
HAPPY KICK-OFF TO SUMMER BABIES!
XOXO,
J&R