Eventually, through ever-grimmer mass emails, she learned that she’d been furloughed and, in June, permanently terminated. “My first thought was not of liberation or of freedom,” she tells me over Zoom some days after the event at Yellow Rose. “It was terror. It was a feeling of, ‘I’m a nobody.’ Part of the toxicity of fine-dining structures is that I felt like I was nothing unless I was attached to somebody with credibility. I felt scared to pursue things on my own, like people were only interested in what I was doing because I was affiliated with trendy restaurants. If I’m just me, I’ve lost any clout or resources.”
Posted: May 18th, 2021 | Tags:Uncategorized | Comments Off on a happy moment from houstonross, rain, blankets, dogs, junky fantasy novel — can’t get too much better. the little white dog ended up throwing up shortly after, and it got weird with my mom, but, for a time, it was perfect
Posted: May 18th, 2021 | Tags:Uncategorized | Comments Off on but all i really want
the best grub street in a long time — editor and writer laurie woolever:
I set a timer for 30 minutes, do as much as I can, then pause to toast a piece of that Mestermacher bread, to which I add some mashed avocado and nutritional yeast. My fridge is full of healthy fruits and vegetables and leftover marinated tofu and hard-boiled eggs and cooked rye berries, but all I really want is permanent financial and professional security, and a slice of white cake with white icing.
Posted: April 27th, 2021 | Tags:Uncategorized | Comments Off on already flying and now we’re just flying together
am i crazy if the kimye split makes me sad? i can’t explain it, i just love kanye, as misguided as he can be, and i don’t know, it just all seems sort of tragic. also this was such a good bit from the article, “The End of Kimye’s Wild Ride” (highly recommend) (IF you want to feel sad) (for kanye? for the fucked nature of fame? about materialism, superficiality? about how the world can be?):
But as much as Kanye wanted Kim, he knew he wanted to marry a woman who could hold her own in the power-couple equation, one who had her own capital and resources, as he told Details in 2009: “I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that ‘already flying and now we’re just flying together’ thing.”
Posted: April 26th, 2021 | Tags:Uncategorized | Comments Off on EXACTLY
from the ny times obituary for wonderful designer alber elbaz:
“I asked myself, ‘If I was a woman, what would I want?’” Mr. Elbaz told The New York Times in January. “Something that is first comfortable. Something fun. Something that lets me eat a big piece of cake.”
