The Left vs. Boobs

Also in this quickie: living funerals, Ru Paul on hallucinogens and Bugs Bunny, Wordle golf, Elementary School Dropout, Dramione drama, book-inspired beauty 👙🪦🍄🐰🎤⛳️📚💄

Me preparing for tonight’s Love is Blind reunion

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The Answer To Loneliness? For These Women, It’s Book Clubs, Refinery29. Book clubs are great. Learning! Friendship! A shared activity! The best part of this article though, is the name of the featured club. It’s HardBack Out Here, I am your biggest fan.

From 'Lolita' To Dakota Johnson's Book Club: A Brief Look At Beauty's Relationship To Literature, The Unpublishable. A nerdy deep dive deep into book beauty trends and the aesthetic of reading. I love this Substack, and I particularly love Defino’s synopsis of Lolita: “In the book, Humbert claims Lolita seduces him, and Nabokov provides enough context that readers with basic comprehension skills can see this isn’t true.”

The Far Right Thinks Sydney Sweeney Killed Wokeness, Slate. How? With those juicy, juicy jugs, of course!!

“Are Sydney Sweeney’s breasts double-D harbingers of the death of woke?” asked Canada’s National Post. The U.K.’s Spectator did less beating around the bush, writing: “Yay! Boobs are back!” The conversation played out on X, formerly known as Twitter, as well, with a well-known anti-woke champion posting a clip of Sweeney accompanied only by the words “Wokeness is dead,” as if it were the most obvious thing in the world that wokeness and décolletage cannot coexist.

‘I didn’t realise I was so loved’: the people hosting their own ‘living funerals,’ The Guardian. I’m obsessed with this idea and think everyone should host their own celebration of life. Special shout out to Rob (33) who hit us with the most relatable pull quote: ‘If people are going to say nice things about me, I’d rather hear it.’

RuPaul Doesn’t See How That’s Any of Your Business, The New Yorker. A fabulous interview, and a treasure trove of quotes. For example:

“Parents teaching their kids about safe spaces, and ‘I feel uncomfortable’ . . . It’s, like, You know what? The world is not a safe space. You have to find the comfort. It’s mostly uncomfortable.” He told me that he has never wanted children. “I don’t like kids,” he said flatly.

Also:

“I would love to have more fun,” he told me. “I would love to go to a fucking roller disco. Why aren’t there fucking roller discos? What’s the deal? People have lost track of what’s really fun.” 

Most importantly, this:

“That’s why hallucinogens are so wonderful. Because your self-consciousness is stripped away when you’re tripping your balls,” he said. The spiritual guru he finds most influential, he said, is “my fucking idol, Bugs Bunny. Who is a fucking Zen master.” His teachings: “Don’t take other people too serious. And stay ahead of their stupidity. If you have to, build a fucking compound somewhere, but stay ahead of their own self-destructive, ridiculous mentality.”

Now that I think about it, Ru Paul kind of is Bugs Bunny. What a revelation! I will never unsee it. Can I get an Amen up in here???

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• 🎤Aww. 10-year-old North West announces Elementary School Dropout

• ⛳️ The perfect office activity: Wordle Golf

• 📚 Dramione Drama. Etsy sellers are binding fanfiction without author permission

• 🧼 R.I.P. It’s suddenly much harder to get hot at The Body Shop

• 🧩 My kind of fun! Big screen crossword parties

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A lunch delivery at an animal shelter turned into the perfect meet cute 🐾

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