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You see how reality TV looks, right? (opens the original)
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This doesn’t really have spoilers, FYI. Read on, but also see the movie.I’ve seen two documentaries by Lance Oppenheim: Some Kind of Heaven and Ren Faire. The former is a sentimental look at a Floridian retirement community, and the latter is a cynical romp about misfits running a renaissance faire in Texas. They both establish clear dialectics between capitalism’s fantastical promises and the actual, disgusting experience of being an American human being. But the more obvious conflict, which Op
It’s time to grow up and have a dinner party (opens the original)
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A pattern I’ve noticed in my behavior—and you can let me know if this is good, bad, or neutral—is that I work hard to turn bad memories of bad conversations into constructive self-criticism. I don’t mean to do this, but if something upsets me, I will shortly thereafter impulsively worry I was only upset because I was wrong. On one hand it’s probably good not to assume I am always right, but on another I am discovering that I never let myself be offended. It’s easy for me to disagree. In fact, it
I want to be girl Don Draper (opens the original)
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Since starting my third rewatch of Mad Men this summer, I have posted about it about one trillion times. Whether delusional or simply correct, I believe these posts of mine have inspired a new interest in Mad Men across the Substack platform. My friend wrote about why Mad Men is so narratively special: “The charact
Wisconsin for the girls (opens the original)
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If you are a regular reader of this newsletter: did you know that I’m from Wisconsin? This factoid still kills in new environments, somehow. When you’re from Chicago—or even whole states like Michigan—it’s like, “oh, yeah, whatever.” Wisconsin seems more fly-over, I think, more rural and unknowable to the elite mind.I love it. It is distinctly and at every turn purple. Each location blends some vintage bleeding heart liberalism with the scariest conservatism possible, and everyone is drunk all o
Pregnancy based beef and eating royal crow (opens the original)
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It is, apparently, fashion week. That has yet to be my business because, in the words of a friend, I haven’t “been around long enough” to seep into very many spreadsheets. An express goal for my time left on Earth is to get Burberry to send me objects, garments, or even just complicated invitations to events to my home. A Burberry trench coat is one of the biggest objects that I notably do not have. It disgusts me, the state of my life. Until Burberry sends me mail, however, I cannot say I am ex
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