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 #275: The Basic Self-Estrangement of Growing Up
Topics include being nocturnal, The Virgin Suicides, bookstores, the tragic death of a sex worker in Queens, video game addiction, Darius Miles, More to Me, life after exoneration and more!
Things I Read That I Love #274: Sheila Was Such a Fucking Bitch It Was Awesome
Topics include The Good Place, The English Patient, child abuse, Dr. Death (again, sorry!), working at Disneyland, “radical sex,” ’90s webzines and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #273: Books In Which Measurable Cerebral Activity Is Virtually Absent.
Topics include Hello Kitty, female TV detectives, sexual assault, Maya Rudolph, Puerto Rico becoming a tax haven for the rich, obesity, parties in the 80s, and more!
Things I Read That I Love #272: Teenagers Find Adult-Free Places The Way Rain Runs Downhill
Topics include Dr. Death aka Christopher Duntsch, old-school video cameras, the ballroom scene, murder, Supershe island, Why the President Must Be Impeached, the death of Scout Schultz, porn pictures shows and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #271: Academic Celebrity Soaks Up Blood Like a Pair of Thinx
Topics include the Avital Ronnell case, “blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia,” airplane hijacking, disaster tourism, Otto Warmbier, Myers-Briggs, the war on drugs, stripping in Portland, what it’s like to be black and work in fashion, the War on Drugs and more!
Things I Read That I Love #270: You Will Be Left With Nothing But Blank Flat Envy
Topics include the future of reproduction, getting sober and realizing that you’re trans, rape kits and rape culture, the McDonalds Monopoly heist, high-brow true crime, tiny hotels, food delivery theory and so much more!
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!
Things I Read That I Love #265: He Was Never Imaginary, He Just Had Bad Timing
Topics include Christian films, NXivm, Caitlyn Jenner, Sesame Street, blood stain pattern analysis, XXXTentacion, The Real World, con-artist Anna Delvey, plus-size clothing and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #264: Your Body Was Just Goofing Off and Drinking Sugar
Topics include journalism, Gloria Allred, Joan Didion, Ryan Murphy, MURDER, We Rate Dogs, Reading Rainbow, Raffi, movies about qpoc, internet writing, Action Park and more!
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!
Things I Read That I Love #262: Blue Is In Fashion This Year
Topics include weight loss surgery, murder, writer’s block, algorithms for style, David Foster Wallace, The Grenfell Tower fire, how bad Troy sucks in “Reality Bites,” deaf culture and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #261: There’s Some Stuff They’d Just Never Do In Their Hometown
Topics include a gun owner thinking twice, bachelorette parties in Nashville, sex in the ’90s, John Hughes, fighting aging with skincare, childhood sexual abuse, Joan Didion, Cardi B and more!
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!
Things I Read That I Love #259: The Chardonnay Wedged Between the Orange Juice and the Mayonnaise.
Topics include Chili’s, writing after/through recovery, Andrew Lloyd Weber, alcoholism, “the male glance,” Trump’s Miss Universe gambit, co-living and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #258: I Have A Date Tonight Would You Like To Go Shopping
Topics include malls, possible murder, the kids of Ferguson, the NRA in Florida, Barbie v Bratz, farming through the California drought, the worst roommate ever, Black Panther and more!
Things I Read That I Love #255: An Extended Exposure Therapy To All The Things You Once Feared.
Topics include Newsies, Katja Blichfeld, the abuse of temps in a Toronto factory, Diana Vreeland, book covers, privileging choicelessness and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #253: Surrendering To The Trash Aesthetic
Topics include screwed millenials, America Online going offline, lana del ray / the love witch / i love dick, the reckoning, photo-editing apps, wrongly accused, Plimouth Plantation, the most hated poet in Portland, murder, and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #252: I Loved the Helpless People I Loved
Topics include the Santa Ana winds, murder, Weinstein’s Complicity Machine, sandwiches, black residents targeted by jaywalking (etc) tickets in Florida, “trailer trash,” IKEA cafeterias and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #251: To Stand in a Shadowless Field in Three Layers of Tweed
Topics include being Midwestern, Second Life, restorative nostalgia, getting an abortion in South Dakota, Chuck E Cheese, Andrew Cunanan, Manson bloggers and so much more!