Amen - there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the Bell-Shepards owning some apartments. In fact, as rental housing stock in LA goes, you’re much better off having a celebrity couple like them for landlords (they’ll fix things, if only to avoid bad press) than some real estate investment ghoul like Steve Mnuchin who…

Probably because so much of what passes for being progressive online is taking ideologically sexy but wildly unrealistic positions and then shitting all over people who don’t match those positions 100%

I have no issues with Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard owning a building and I think they’re being really good landlords by not charging rent for April. It’s decent and I wish my apartment complex would do the same.

Oh you've seen it already to make that judgement call?

Wes Anderson backlash is so strange to me. The guy has generated little-to-no controversy in 25+ years of making major movies and he puts out a reliably solid (and lucrative) product.

But if you could do this one thing, why would you do anything else?

I know there are people who get tired of Wes Anderson because he only does The One Thing, but I still get excited over every new movie of his. I mean, yeah, he only does The One Thing, but he does it so well.

Refried beans are not refried beans without lard! Bring on the lard. Lard! Nutritious and delicious.

Makes it all go down so much smoother.....

JFC. Butter your eggs? And don’t forget to fry them in Pig LARD.

Really, I just butter everything to be on the safe side.

I know someone who was like that as a teenager. He’s a friend’s relative (cousin? Something like that) who I met back in the day. He was going through the sort of “I’m cooler than you because I’m into Weird Stuff” phase of trying to establish some identity, but he had serious mental illnesses, plural, and kept trying…

You know what’s most sad about this. There are people of all races, with these same mental illnesses, walking the streets, homeless, indigent, without hope and yet we only focus on the rich white crazy girls, like they’re something special to be saved. 

Whoa. You just described my childhood and it’s made me realize for the first time that’s what was going on. Thank you for giving me the words to describe it.

So after the big blow-up about her as a “scammer” I followed Calloway on instagram to get her side of the story, and one of the fascinating parts of her saga is that she actively exploited this trope. She knew that seeming rich would get her further - so she faked it, while actually coming from a fairly troubled and…

I would love to read an article or something you write about this experience. I find myself knee-jerk disagreeing with that last sentiment, but as a black woman (assuming you’re not black, but open to being told otherwise, of course) the circumstance are different. I find that white people expect me to be aggressive,…

Not a good one.

NYMag/The Cut have published a few pretty white girls gone rogue stories in the last couple of years which were easily their most read stories. Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Delvey, Caroline Calloway are the manic pixie dream girls of the instagram/technology age.

As a Gen Xer from a super sexist household, these books appealed to me for all the wrong reasons. When my sister and I were “well-behaved” and did what our parents wanted, we didn’t really get any other attention. Our submissiveness was our value.

I love that texting is the problem here