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Arguably Brett Easton Ellis’ magnum opus. I love that he sued Zoolander for stealing his IP and won. It’s a story about a male fashion model who becomes a terrorist. As in other Easton Ellis books, there is a mantra: “The better you look the more you see.” This is deeply true. Beautiful people are punished by being exposed to all the most horrifying things in the world. Epstein…need I say more?
Jun 14, 2022
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Jan 16, 2024
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The name dropping will leave you breathless!! the best niche ref is fern mallis. has anyone else read this?? bc I need to know what you think about the mountain of Snapple and mentos consumed and what it felt like for you to be in zoolander’s vacant head for 500 pages and what you think the ice and confetti were all about
Jan 28, 2024
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LA getting you down? because its Too Boring? Escape into this provocative - bordering-smut novel
that takes place in more exciting, drug fueled times. It’s called ’The Shards’ and I read it earlier this summer and could not put it down. Like most of Ellis’ writing, it’s got well dressed preppy hot people and cocaine and serial killers. After reading ’The Shards’, I’ve been very visually inspired by 1980s LA 🎥🎥🎥
Dec 16, 2023
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I’ve been rewatching old seasons of The Real World and the new spin-off seasons where they reunite the cast to re-argue old conflicts in the same house they lived in decades ago. The combination is a heady mix of nostalgia and horror. Flashback: I’m fourteen and pacing around my childhood home. Everyone is asleep and I’m watching Ruthie black out on The Real World: Hawaii, nervous about transferring to public school, listening to the locusts buzz. Today: I’m thirty-five and pacing around my house in LA. Some fifty year old is getting his ribs broken in gladiator combat on The Challenge. Fame is a trap. All these TikTok kids are fucked.
Jun 14, 2022
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This document was more or less the codex for K-HOLE. Genius text over teenage smut. Girls riding horses nude on the beach. Recently, I watched the Netflix documentary on the brand. Wow, nothing got deeper in my lizard brain than Bruce Weber and naked 18 year old Jamie Dornan. A fun tidbit is that the editor of the magazine went to college in my hometown. Suddenly the sexy lax bro’s cavorting in front of the roomie white clapboard lake house made so much sense. I love it all even more now.
Jun 14, 2022
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Cocaine is the best drug. It really sucks that people keep ODing from the fentanyl laced batches. I feel like Nancy Reagan having to “Just Say No.” Can we legalize this already? Your phone is almost certainly worse for your health. I remember a friend smuggled some blow in a book from Brazil. It was pink and fabulous. Barely a hangover the next day. Let’s just be real and let people make their choices and have their fun.
Jun 14, 2022