saloon 69

something for everyone today: jobs at coa nyc, no.29, lawson fenning—calls for pattern makers, models, social producers, buyers, event professionals. and me on my high horse

Rae Sloan Bredin, May Day

Because I have hyperactive mental illness, I’ve decided to take the long weekend to do things like: build bookshelves, build a brand deck, clean up the rolodex, kill roaches, properly cook for myself (this is breakfast), try and write something on my own Substack, orzo bimbo, and two others I promised to write for months ago. It’s a resoundingly fitting way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of a searingly capitalist country: to slave away on the procrastinated tasks of your personal life bc your work-life balance is so bad…

• This piece went viral, funnily enough, on Instagram:

  The Social Climber's Favorite Word Is "Community"

It makes some veryyyy excellent points, and I think it’s an important reminder that the only way “community” works is through reciprocity. One of the hardest things to swallow about saloon is when I meet people or receive emails/texts/DMs from those who are clearly here to hit it and quit it. Totally standard for something network-y, but I try very seriously to encourage reciprocity inside our community.

Which is all to say: if you find yourself up in the chat or the howdy email making lots of asks (which is fine and I do love!!!), try to remember to offer things up as well! It doesn’t need to be jobs; it can be event invites, some piece of industry knowledge, mentorship, an offer to get coffee/drink with someone else in the community, etc. It makes it so much more fun and feel-good and also it just simply: works way better as an entity.

All that to say, really: the most frequent comment I get as people are walking out the door from our events is how friendly and non-network-y it feels (I always think of it like when you’re in the kitchen of a house party shooting the shit with the other kitchen people). I think that’s because saloon has garnered a really genuine basis. I think wonderful and giving people show up to our events. Anyway, we’re doing something right, I get to see it every day!! <3

• I’m new to The Gentlewoman (how? idk) and I’m addicted. This piece by Ann Friedman had me crying at the bar at Freeman’s right before Olivia Weiss picked me up. If you’re feeling: old, competitive, like you’re underperforming, like other people are figuring it out and you’re falling behind, you need to pick up this issue and read. I’ve just subscribed to her newsletter (off Substack, praise be), which I’m confident will be full of the same humor and wisdom.

• Olivia and I then went from tearful Freeman’s bar episode to the Oberon for dinner—the New Museum’s cafe, which opens July 7. It was good, unalarming: great champagne on arrival, chicken, steak, little gem salad, cold martinis. Annie Armstrong (I shouted her article out in last week’s newsletter) was there—Olivia told me after the fact…wtf, among other starlets: my co-worker Maya, for example, and Cynthia Rowley. The Oberon Group (that is: Mia Risher) knows its way around town.

• I also saw Busted Ceramics IRL this week at Spring Bar in Chinatown. Cute play on those frog plates I used to eat from at other people’s houses (my parents weren’t like that. Ingredients household—there was no way we were going to have disposable novelty plates).

• Oh my god it’s happening: Diotima archive sale.

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