What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it | Emma Beddington
The more I learn about celebrities and their odd passions, the more encouraged I am. So much for AI drowning us in a flood of
The more I learn about celebrities and their odd passions, the more encouraged I am. So much for AI drowning us in a flood of bland ‘tasteslop’ The internet, as we know, is now a depressing hellhole where everything is a terrifying shot of cortisol straight into the eyeballs or AI slop, interspersed with adverts for protein.
So may I offer a recommendation for a modest corrective? It’s called Perfectly Imperfect. It is a daily newsletter about stuff people like. That’s it; that’s the whole concept. The people in question are public figures, but only up to a point – the mostly US artists and musicians featured aren’t household names for a 51-year-old British woman (though there is the occasional megastar Francis Ford Coppola likes Hawaiian shirts and halva; Kylie likes washi masking tape and fresh wasabi).
Whoever is featured, their likes are deeply idiosyncratic and often unappealing cracking your knuckles against your jaw; an unhinged cocktail comprising Aperol, milk, creamer and
olives; a sporting self-help book or cold-calling people. Continue reading...
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