Results for: love is a lie
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Things I Read That I Love #329: Goop Cruising, YouTube Tween Cults, Amy’s Kitchen, Botched Plastic Surgery, Et Al
Topics include a novelist who lied about being Cuban, shopping on Temu, shifting science on alcohol consumption, Elizabeth Holmes, the Goop Cruise and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo
Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver on Flo from Progressive. Also: the re-ascendence of large pants, Kowloon Walled City, High Point University’s luxury dorms for America, a teen’s fatal plunge into the London underworld and more longreads for you.
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Things I Read That I Love #320: Remember How Reckless Karaoke Seemed so recently?
Topics include Zola, the rise in Black homeschooling, the return of FOMO, online stalking, “Friends,” why meetings, Generation X, racism in The Bachelor, Mare of Easttown and more!
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Things I Read That I Loved #312: The Key Word is “Oneself,” Which Is Irresistible To 20-Year-Olds
Topics include YouTuber adoptions, romance novels, moldy jam, Sarah Schulman, the future of the fashion business is sweatpants, supermarket sweep and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #309: Like The Cone With Flowers Coming Out of it to Look Like Ice Cream
Topics include Kinfolk Magazine, the Jazz vs Thunder no-game, 24 hours as EMTS during coronavirus, the opioid crisis, chain pharmacies, Estonia, Katie Porter and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #276: Thelma, Too, Has an Unquenchable Thirst
Topics include Erotic Photo Hunt, Dorothy Allison, school lunch, alt-right extremists, The Spotted Pig, “People in Trouble,” murder on the Appalachian trail, and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #268: Rolling On a Filthy Bathroom’s Floor Dressed In a Ball Gown
Topics include Lindsay Lohan & David Lynch, politicizing sexual desire, murder, Jewish nostalgia & Dirty Dancing, Anthony Bourdain, Slenderman, escaping Warren Jeffs and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #263: Spindly and Unkempt as a Manson Girl
Topics include Renting a Family, Easy Rider & Alice’s Restaurant, alcoholism, an imposter!, eating disorders, Brad Renfro, Facebook, Bad TV, Janelle Monae and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #266: A Wikipedia-Hole From Which I Barely Emerged Alive.
Topics include Netflix, a convenient dinner, surprisingly a lot of hockey, SKAM Austin, Queer Eye, chicken tenders, kissing, the new Mormans, Netflix, Vice, OneTaste, and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #260: “Fuck” Can Hammer Home A Feeling
Topics include Tiffany Haddish, Lena Waithe, swear words in poetry, pain patients suffering due to crackdowns against opioid addicts, Disney/MGM Studios Backlot Tour, Cambridge Analytica, Hollywood child molesters, why the subway is late and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #248: Good F*cking Luck Fighting Off Those Bowls of Baby Snickers.
Topics include The Olive Garden, Harvey Weinstein, domestic violence, Kink.com, Dirty John the con artist, an immersive Casper mattress experience, essential oils and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #249: Ceiling Fans They Can Swing From Or Whatever.
Topics include Cher, Oxy, Mattresses, Cape Coral, Mackenzie Davis, TGI Fridays, TV finales, Tiny House Hunters and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #243: You Feel Like This Woman Is Crawling Towards You
Topics include The New Hollywood, Oakland losing its artist communities, LaCroix, colorism, content marketing, queers in the country, Liz Smith, the family secrets that emerge from DNA testing and A TURKEY THAT LIVED ON MY STREET.
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Things I Read That I Love #242: One By One I Am Letting Go Of The Things That Killed Me
Topics include murder, Uber, R Kelly, people getting lost and dying in National Parks, the child molestation scandal on the isolated Pitcairn Island, fast fashion, how Gotham gave us Donald Trump and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #235: Suddenly, Our Date Was Not For Us; It Was For Him
Topics include Donald Trump being full of lies, Disneyland’s 50th anniversary, leaving, Lolita, California, Clifton’s Cafeteria, slot machines, Alexa and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #217: Outcasts, Weirdos, Dweebs, Punks, Shy Kids, Cartoon Fanatics, and Serial Fidgeters
Topics include sleep, “my president was Black,” farm-to-table restaurants, Betsy DeVos, Pee Wee Herman, Journey into the Imagination, Chicago State University and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #221: I Should Very Gladly Have Portrayed Myself Here Entire and Wholly Naked
Topics include Anna Nicole Smith, the DeVos family, Stephen King’s IT, Will & Grace, MURDER, Snow White’s Scary Adventures, miniatures, people who remember everything and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #212: She’s A Little Trigger-Happy On The Misanthropic Rage
Topics include Sea World Ohio, “Fixer Upper,” Blue Apron, Bret Easton Ellis, the Golden Suicides, a con-woman, this really cool essay about ambition and SO MUCH MORE!
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Things I Read That I Love #195: Turning From Something Ugly Into Something Beautiful
Topics include PeeWee Herman, Winona Ryder, “Making a Murderer,” dating TV shows, the 1966 University of Texas shooting and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #196: Apparently I Look Like The Fish-Sandwich Type
Topics include Jay-Z, adult braces, heroin, women & guns, tumblr teens, San Jose, the Titanic, murder, teenagers & social media and more!