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What I listen to all day, my opinion on fashion's favorite antisemite, and wedding culture.
My dear reader,
Coming soon is a particularly interesting piece about a beautiful Asian cult—no, NOT Shen Yun—which I’ve been researching with the help of one of your fellow Vanity Project readers for the past month. While I put the finishing touches on this spectacular deep dive, this week’s letter is a classic Q&A, with questions submitted from my Instagram clientele.
Do you listen to any podcasts?
Constantly. I have two pairs of Air Pods so what when one loses charge, I have another on deck. This keeps me from ever having to be alone with my thoughts. Would you like to know which podcasts?
Sexy Unique Podcast aka “SUP” and all of the pods in the SUP universe. It was created and is hosted by Lara Marie Schoenhals, who you may recognize as the author of NYT bestseller White Girl Problems, but who I only know as Lars, Mother God of the lollers. She’s had a rotating door of guest hosts over the years, but writer Carey O’Donnell has been her cohost for a while now, and I can’t imagine the pod without him. Excellent film, TV, and pop culture takes with a twisted sense of humor. I have them to thank for turning me on to the world of Todd Haynes, and if all goes according to plan, LA residents could soon be thanking Lara for her petition to cancel food service at the Alamo Draft House’s reopening of the beloved Arclight cinemas in order to preserve the “pristine moviegoing experience offered by these hallowed theaters.” I pay for this on Patreon.
TrueAnon. Hosted by Marxists Brace Belden (an SF punk and unionist who volunteered for a Kurdish militant group during the Syrian Civil War) and writer Liz Franczak, and produced by Yung Chomsky. It’s satirical and funny, but well-researched, thoughtful, and they have incredibly well-placed sources all over the world. It began as the three went down an Epstein rabbit hole after his arrest in 2019, and I discovered it after my own extremely traumatic experience with