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Upcoming Shows in Los Angeles
3/15 - Sunday - Awards Show Watch Party! @ Dynasty Typewriter - 4pm
3/21 - Saturday - Something Else? REVENGE FANTASY @ Porter Street Studio - 8pm
3/29 - Sunday - Dungeon: Comedy Roleplaying Game @ Lyric Hyperion - 7:30pm
New Crafts
I’m still crafting to support good causes. I already told you I started making mini designer bag charms, but I am also continuing my SATC homage. I have finally made the Charlotte phone case and Marnie phone grip. It’ll be up later this week!
Reddit told me you can do sublimation on nylon tights, so I’m doing that. Can’t decide on a design to test first, so if you have any tight ideas, let me know.
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other fixations
Stuff I Got This Week
Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging by Jamilah Lemieux. I love Jamilah’s work so I had to get this on the kindle ASAP.
I finally went to Maru coffee in Los Feliz. I am sad to report it was worth the wait.
I’ve been smoking a lot of Maven Genetics and recently started enjoying their Halos. It’s a rosin-infused pre-roll that is real tasty. I like French Diamonds.
Stuff I Did and Thought This Week
Last night I did a show at Nico’s. I made a joke about looking like a goth Willy Wonka. It was a very whimsical look. Like I owned a Hot Topic that sold incense. Like someone at HBO said, “We need a Chris Fleming for black women! A middle-aged woman who can name all the Living Single characters!” and then when I got off stage someone was like “Did you know Chris was here?” I did not. I just started making fun of myself before I left the house. Anyway, Chris did let me know that he was thinking “I should wear more polka dots and velvet” when I said it.
Stayed up all night watching Vladimir on Netflix even though it made me so angry. I’ve never hated a female character so much, but then I loved her.
I don’t care what Timothee Chalamet thinks about ballet or the opera. Not at all. Not once. Not ever.
I finally put some of my clothes on poshmark and depop! I will empty my closet and be one of those people with organized, signature pieces. I WILL.
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives comes back tomorrow so I will have a reason to live again.
I became a regular at a local restaurant I really like and this is one of the best things that has happened in my 7 years in Los Angeles.
I put some new stuff in my Writer Resource Folder if you want some writing, acting, podcasting tips or you wanna read some scripts.
Remember Girl Talk? idk why he’s just been on my mind.
spoilers below
Okay, let’s get into the real obsession of the week: Love is Blind. The reunion for the most boring season aired last night and it delivered very little. That’s what we all thought would happen. It was obvious this was not a successful season for the “experiment.” Only two couples ended up saying yes and only one made it to the reunion (Christine and Vic, duh.) Ohio should’ve been easy for Love is Blind. I’m from the Midwest. It’s very easy to fall in love there. All they had to do was swing through a cornfield and find a few guys with actual, real jobs. Instead we got a loser parade of wannabe manosphere influencers.
People said a lot about Traitors needing a tune up. As always, I think those people are wrong. Traitors is perfect and never needs to change. If any franchise is in need of help, it’s Love is Blind. Everything about it is tired now. The format, the contestants, the experiment? All bad. All of it just makes you roll your eyes and fast forward to the part someone online talked about. There are some easy, but major, changes the show could make to keep things interesting. The Ohio reunion didn’t inspire hope that Love is Blind would ever be brave enough to make those changes.
Love is Blind seems content to choose horrible, unemployed man-boys who will turn female contestants into social media superstars for enduring their behavior. This creates viral moments. It doesn’t create solid or interesting relationships. At the same time, no one wants to see average, boring people fall in love. They could find the balance between those things, but no. To up the drama, Love is Blind has started including people with kids. This is another mistake. There’s no world where it’s appropriate to marry someone who has only known your kid in person for less than a week. It’s not fair to the person with kids or anyone who might match with them.
The answer to fixing Love is Blind is actually in another Netflix show: Age of Attraction. After watching all of the available Age of Attraction episodes today, I think they could make one good dating show if you combined them.
Right now though? I can’t say either is worth the watch. What Age of Attraction gets wrong could help Love is Blind become relevant again.
