The devil's in the details, but you've got a friend in me

A bad habit I have is endlessly bookmarking articles to read later and then not actually reading them later.

Today, I finally worked my way through a few. These were the best:

First, read this Texas Monthly article about how Patron Saint of Texas Matthew McConaughey is the best celebrity for these trying times. This line gets to the heart of it: "I think he takes himself seriously—or at least he approaches everything he does with his own brand of seriousness—but he has never expected the public to take him seriously."

Follow that with this heartbreaking Vulture piece Cecily Strong wrote about grief, which includes this incredible passage: "The world is upside down. I’m holding devastation and love in equal measures. What is bad timing when the timeline seems irrelevant? What’s the ending? Would you even know?"

In keeping with writing that makes you think, read this Esquire piece, which broadens the Ellen Degeneres Situation into a larger conversation about how your experiences aren't more important than other people's. It has a kicker that will make you gasp.

Comfort yourself after reading that by reading this Apartment Therapy piece about the comfort of a home well lived-in. It's part of a larger series about "comfort decorating," something I've apparently been doing all my life.

Then finish off with this Polygon article that looks at the reasons for the rabid fangirldom around the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. It's part of a larger PotC package Polygon has put together – a nice reminder that I'm not the only one taking solace in nostalgia right now.