Long time no taco
Hello friends! You may or may not remember signing up for this newsletter? In which I sometimes brag about small achievements, often grouse about writing,...
gifts for feminist film snobs, hard-to-please pet people, and everyone else! plus a wild boar taco
I thought I'd change it up this month and do a gift guide. Please note: This may read as Laramie's holiday wish list, but it is not intended as such. It's...
Look Ma, I'm in the Hollywood Reporter
Hello friends! Today's newsletter is brought to you by a strong cup of coffee with coconut cashew milk and very large dose of adrenaline. I will do my best...
The dog days are (almost) over
Or... Are they. I googled the phrase the other day, and got zero clarity. According to Wikipedia, the dog days are "the hot, sultry days of summer. They were...
Let her eat cake 🎂
I'm drafting this at La Taquiza, my old fave taco joint from my USC days. Sitting at my old fave corner table with my yellow legal pad. I'm headed to a...
lip tint, monkey hot tubbing, 2 of 300 arguments
I'm breaking format this month to offer you a list of things I've found pleasing and/or meaningful:1. Laura Olin's newsletter, which is a list of lovely...
RICCCCCKKKKAAAAAWWWWWWWKKKKKKKKKK!
Hello my favorite people.I'm sending this from a desk at an office, at a job that may last for 10 weeks (fingers crossed) or may end tomorrow. We just don't...
Accessing that smushy part of my brain
Good morning! Happy February.I managed to get up at seven (woooooo), and I'm out on the porch as I draft this, quietly drinking my coffee. Ricky's out of...
Good omens for 2018
1. A beautiful bunch of New Year’s carrots, gifted to me by the dreadlocked organic produce guy as I paid for my tomatoes. “To lighten my load,” he said. I...
a halfhearted rant about tacos and LA "winter" fashions
Happy December, friends!I’m drafting this at Salazar, an irksomely hip barbecue/taco joint, built on an old gas station site, I think? There’s a kind of...
Trees and trees and trees
Hello my favorite people!Happy November. Happy November 1, to be precise. I’m determined to get back to sending the Report on the first of the month. If I...
Without hope and without despair
I'm starting a new project (or, rather, re-starting a project I’ve started before, but I won't go into that...) so naturally I spent a solid hour yesterday...
I’m purging again
My clothes hang on an exposed rod on my bedroom wall, so I’m forced to look at everything I own, every day. It makes me crazy to see clothes I don’t wear,...
Nobody walks (at night)
In New York, you get all the walking you need just living your life, but if you want to walk in LA you have to make an effort. I have a rule, which...
June Gloom
I swore I wouldn’t use that hokey headline and look here I am using it anyway.I’m not actually gloomy. Pensive, maybe. (Pensive is my default.) But it’s a...
Life is good, you guys 🍕🍳
Sometimes I have to remind myself of this.It’s a beautiful morning in Los Angeles (what else is new), and I'm sitting on the porch, eating a leftover slice...
You can’t be a sellout if you haven’t sold anything
Good morning, friends!It’s 6:30am as I’m sitting down to draft this. The sky is just starting to go from an inky dark blue to a dusky dawn blue, and the...
Suiting Up For the Apocalypse ✨💀✨
Hello my favorite people.Hi.I’m under the covers as I draft this, hiding from it all. Yesterday I spent way too much time on the internet—like, the whole...
Staving off The Januaries™
Hello my favorite people. Here we are in January, my least favorite month.January stinks.There’s too much pressure, you know? To assess. To make resolutions....
What if I don’t want to talk about politics?
Hello friends. Hi.Wow.The world is a different place than it was when I last newslettered.I should have sent word weeks ago, urging you to buy tickets to...