hate when somebody pulls up to a stop sign before me and waves me through. who the fuck do you think you are? you don’t get to decide. those aren’t the rules. fuck you
“Lately, I’ve been thinking about smoking. All the time,” writes author Xochitl Gonzalez. “With each passing day of this absolutely deranged year, my desire to contemplate how to make sense of it all while puffing on a cigarette grows.”
Part of this smoking thing is a yearning for the past, admits Gonzalez. Not in an effort to recapture her youth, but to recapture an approach to time and life.
“I can’t personally slow down technology or fix media or the demands of capitalism or any of the other existential things that have crept into our lives,” she writes. “But maybe what I can do is stop what I’m doing, ask somebody to come outside, and take five minutes to slow down with me while I engage in the very dangerous act of holding a flaming stick to my face. This could be my rebellion.”
Read Gonzalez’s full essay: https://t.co/c7c3jw5r1x
Dua Lipa opens up about her music and expectations people place on her in a recent interview with @ELLEUK
“People expect me to make sad, emotional ballads, but that’s not who I am. How do you expect melancholic music from the happiest girl in the world? It defies my purpose.”
I worked the Miami LGBTQ+ film fest in ‘04 and picked up Bruce from the airport and drove him around during the festival. I used to get drunk and text him afterwards. He was always very nice about it.