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I know what youâre thinking, another gay man with a penchant for pop, another bum boy obsessed with Kylie. But this is the best, most hornily, summery song ever written (Madonnaâs Tell Me with the Marlboro men is excellent, but feels less seasonal). After the first note of Slow I can literally taste sea salt and sweat and spf50 on my lips. The video is heaving with ripe bikinis and the heavy gussets of men in Speedos. Saddle up.
Jun 3, 2021
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This is my summer anthem. A reminder to stop shrinking away from expressing myself and to not be afraid to take up space. Female sexuality is power!
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My hater arc is over. As all life on earth evolutionarily tends towards crustaceans, so too must the gay boy gravitate to Madonna. Itâs ancestral, sorta kinda. Why did nobody tell me how fucking rad the Orbit 12â mixes of Erotica and Justify My Love were? Where is the news and the media? I need to learn to DJ just to spin some of this shit. Ugh. Up Down Suite on the Rain maxi?????? What the hell?
Apr 9, 2025
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đ°Ottolenghi doesnât call it slab cake, it has some French-adjacent name with an accent on the e, but itâs basically lightly gelatined fruit embedded in a cement of almond sponge. Itâs important to me that the slab has squared edges because circular cakes are for sissies (I donât make the rules). I would happily sell a kidney for regular access to squares of slab cake, but not both kidneys.
Jun 3, 2021
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đčI have absolutely no ties to Italy that I know of, and the last piece I read about it was from a Black woman explaining the near-constant racism and ostracisation she experienced in the more rural areas, and yet here I am advocating an Italian digestivo. I prefer Greece as a destination, my spirit animal is feta, but would never have you chug ouzo like on a balmy night like a chav on a gap year. Like many an amaro, Meletti is bittersweet and you only have to add a dash of prosecco, ice and an olive to look suave which is much less time-consuming than a finishing school in Switzerland or one of the private schools with a riot club. It is a no-frills Aperol for grown-ups (itâs actually best in a half-pint glass, curveless like a supermodel). Drink Meletti, feel expensive.
Jun 3, 2021
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đ„ŹWhen we cleared my grandmaâs house after she died, none of my cousins wanted the ceramic cabbage because they lack vision, but I am a tasteful magpie. I like ceramic greenery because it makes a space look verdant without someone dming you that youâre overwatering your cacti every time you do a story. In a way, the cabbage is annoyingly similar to the cheap trompe-lâĆil you can get at Arket but it most certainly isnât the cheap trompe-lâĆil you can get at Arket. Itâs not an antique, I donât think. Nobody in my family own any real art but we have a reasonable collection of Tate prints between us. Itâs just a matter of time until the cabbage gets knocked off its pedestal and smashed to smithereens and I have to re-live the loss of my grandma (we were close) and then do a massive cope. Until then, it prospers.
Jun 3, 2021