Happy Holidays To Y'all!
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I’ve officially signed off from work, given up on cooking anything except festive-adjacent meals and am in a state of semi-permanent holidaying, as I hope most of you are too! If you are absolutely dead bored of your current company, I have lined up handy links to the most popular of this year’s newsletters and ramblings. So if you feel like a dive into some fun bits, let’s go - and there’s a link waaaay at the bottom to everything I have written this year.
I am so thrilled to have all of you here in my free subscriber community at The Weakley Report and even though I am tired of hearing the word grateful, I too am very grateful that you choose to spend some of your time here with me in my li’l corner of the Internet. I am hoping in the new year to upgrade some subscribers to paid - with loads of extra bits of writing to go along with that! - and, with any luck, many of you will consider becoming part of this cohort . In the meantime, here are some of my most popular posts from the year, if you need a break from your family, the sun, the leftovers…
And Just like That I'm Wondering Why I'm Still Watching
As the punks would say: ‘Its not that deep’. Or is it? Oh. My. Forking. Nerves. I’m really trying to get on board with And Just Like That. Are you watching the new season of Sex And The City In Menopausal Form? I was 25 when SATC first aired. I know some of you are thinking ‘YOUTH!” Others of you are thinking “yikes, ancient” and the rest of you are thi…
How To Write A Headline By Linda Evangelista
The Supers. They’ve just remained so resolutely cool. There’s the Apple TV documentary series. There’s their recent over-50 Vogue cover – both British and American. There’s the ongoing campaigns. There’s the nepo babies. Yes, all their children are grown up and thoroughly gorgeous and accomplished and gorgeous. Did I say gorgeous?
Is This Really What 80 Now Looks Like?
In what has nothing to do with Mother’s Day, my mom and Martha Stewart share a birthday, to the year. This is how I – very unscientifically! - consider myself something of an expert on women over the age of 80 – not that dearest mama even made 80. Martha, on the other hand, has not just whipped through 80 like she whipped through jail time – with aplomb…
Hold My Apple Sours, I'm Nostaligia-ing
Remember when I told you about sober socializing? And my Dry February? Well, alas, the month ended and it brought with it a veritable horde of noisy, joyous teenagers readying for the greatest (most infamous?) of high school celebrations, The Matric Dance. Prom, to my Internationals. And with that came, erm, Apple Sours. The most toxic green boozy elixi…
Is It Me Or Is It Aesthetically Displeasing In Here?
I can chalk this up in equal part to Martha Stewart (or maybe Heidi Klum - she’s 49, so closer to my age than 81-year-old swimsuit edish Martha); the mounting algorithm that serves me aesthetic content (yes, I know that means I must be watching it) and the fact that I have spent the last three years looking at myself. No, not in a mirror, thanks Snow Wh…
As always, you can find the full archive of all the posts here on Substack
Happy holidays! xoxo Dan
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