paris vlog 🇫🇷 mens fashion week, all fours by miranda july and picasso 

oh my GODDD this vlog was so much fun. the issey show!!! what a dream!!! glad you got along with All Fours!!! Miranda is def from the twee generation. loved your notes about hormones in midlife and the female experience. and i had no idea there was a new Hjorth?? also a fellow cucumber muncher. pls pls pls more sonny angel hauls. also WHAT is the tea on croissants?! 👀👀👀

Those feathers made me laugh so hard.

Happy you liked All Fours - it was a page turner. It is certainly not something we get to read a lot about in fiction. (That brown vest is perfect, btw. ) She is very twee, that's true. Tell us more about your job, if you can, please. You were at so many good shows!

lollll the crudo + all fours sensory fest

Hope u had smmmm funnn this was a very lovely vlog 💞💞💞

fun!

You should abandon books and become a blind box unboxing channel 🌷🍇

I couldn’t help but notice that you arrived in Paris on the eve of the 209th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, but I don’t suppose many Parisians mentioned that to you. Based on my experience reading “Run River”, I thought I’d be interested in Joan Didion’s “The Last Thing He Wanted”, but checking into the subject and plot of the book, I think I’ll take a pass, at least for now. “Butcher’s Crossing” seems more like something I’d enjoy reading, as your description of the novel puts me in mind of A.B. Guthrie’s “The Big Sky”, which I read and enjoyed some years ago. Guthrie’s book is about the Far West in the 1830s and the glory days of the fur-trapping mountain men. None of those young male models you showed us in that fashion show seemed very happy, or very well-fed. As for the clothes, give me jeans and a t-shirt, or an L.L. Bean long-sleeved canvas shirt, any day. And the gold feathers stuck on their foreheads … like, really?! Really??!! Imagine going through the drive-thru at Tim Horton’s looking like that! When you pulled out that knife and started opening the packages containing those little doll-like figurines, I felt a real a real shiver of Carl Jung-type synchronicity go up and down my spine. The feeling grew even stronger when you started talking about the book, “All Fours”, and women’s and men’s experiences of growing older and contemplating their own mortality. I say that because over at the Virginia Woolf Reading Group on Substack (check Alyssa’s June 9th newsletter) we’ve been discussing the novel “Mrs. Dalloway”, which includes a number of characters, men and women, who were good friends in their youth but are now in their early fifties and looking back on their lives with a mixture of nostalgia and regret. They are also increasingly aware that they are far closer to the end of their lives than the beginning. One of the men, Peter Walsh, carries a pocket-knife with him everywhere, and the significance of this came up for discussion in the reading group. So, when you began opening the packages with that knife, I immediately thought of Peter Walsh, and the fact that you were demonstrating one of the reasons why he might carry a pocket-knife around with him. I’m not so sure that middle-aged and older men and woman feel all that differently about getting older. There’s the same sense, I would imagine, of gradually losing the person you used to be and the physical capacity to do the things you used to do, combined with an inclination to sit back and reflect on things, past and present, rather than actively engage so much with the here and now. All I knew of Flannery O’Connor up until today was that she was an American writer of the mid-20th century. But I saw the film “Wildcat” this afternoon, directed by Ethan Hawke and starring his daughter, Maya Hawke, as Flannery O’Connor, and I’ve learned enough about her to want to read her novels and short stories, and generally know more about her. From that standpoint, the film was a success, though not all critics seem to think so.