My dad lived in Switzerland for a few years and my sister was there too and she was 12 and she met this girl gabby who was Jewish, and gabby’s dad was like this famous director so I went to gabby’s insane bat mitzvah in Switzerland and Paris Hilton was the DJ there. the party was crazy, there were people on stilts and I don’t even remember the food, but when Paris walked in they played this heavenly song and a spot light followed her as she took a selfie with literally every single person No matter what age. She told my step mom she liked her dress. my brother is always so mad he wasn’t there and regularly tells this story to people at bars
Mar 10, 2025
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1) my high school is the center of a Netflix documentary. It’s not good.
2) my mom was in the army and in Germany the same exact time Jeffrey Dahmer was. She was taken in and assessed where he was stationed, but she was not in his regime. my brother and i only found this out a few months ago and we told her about it. she was very distraught
3) my great uncle was in an acapella group that was sampled in Young Thug’s “I Know There’s Gonna Be”. Never met him before he passed though.
4) there is a house music singer named Barbara Tucker who i listened to as a kid. Her song “Beautiful People” got me through some times in high school. Turns out her father was in the same group as my great uncle. I contacted her last summer to ask about him and she even gave me her number (but I’m just gonna respect her privacy). She’s a lovely woman 😂
Mar 10, 2025
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somewhere on my dad’s side, escaped the Nazis as a kid. in the 80s as ambassador to Lebanon an intelligence agency armed with American weapons attempted to assassinate him for trying to link up with the PLO, and when he insinuated it was the Americans, he was charged with a phony insanity charge and drummed out of the service, later rehabilitated but a wild story nonetheless
Apr 11, 2024
here are 3 of my most exciting pieces of lore:
1) my dad was in the south tower on 9/11 and he made it out, but was still in the building when the plane hit. the plane went through his office window, but he was already evacuating and on around the 40th floor when the plane hit
2) my paternal grandfather (jewish) was born in austria but his family moved to milan in ‘33/34 when hitler came into power. in ‘44 when the nazis occupied northern italy, his family escaped into the mountains northeast of milan near bergamo (he was about 13 or 14 years old at this point). his family helped smuggle guns to the partisans since they could speak german with an austrian accent and bypass nazi checkpoints. my grandfather had to shoot a fascist at one checkpoint going wrong, and so at 14 he joined the partisans full-on and lived with them until the war ended. i have a bunch of photos from his time with the partisans (attached some). apparently the group he was specifically with was led by this kinda crazy guy who threatened the security of the whole partisan operations, so he was actually killed by other communist partisans. a few years ago i found a man who researches this exact group in bergamo, and now i have an 80 yr old italian pen-pal who published some photos of my grandfather in his book.
3) my maternal grandfather was orphaned really young in cuba and was really poor. he met my grandmother when he saw her riding her bike down the street and instantly fell in love with her (yes, just like cinema paradiso). she was really rich and her family hated him, so he would wait outside her window just to see her. eventually they get married and have my eldest uncle (because love always perseveres). this part of the story is fuzzy, but i believe he got into some gambling issues and so my grandmothers family shipped him to the US (probably with hopes of getting rid of him for good). but he began to build a life for his family there. then the revolution happened and he continued to go back and forth, but then castro put in the policy that children born in cuba had to stay, so they moved to nyc permanently. but my grandfather loved castro, as most cubans did. so my family is not part of the typical exile cuban-american demographic, which i always found fascinating.
Feb 19, 2024
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Yeah severance is the best tv show on right now and I will watch it and discuss the nuances and the shots and coloring and the writing!! like That’s art, that’s critiquing culture, that’s bringing something new to the table
I will ALSO sit my ass down with wine and popcorn and watch the new love is blind episodes(and love island this summer!!!) because tv can also serve the purpose of shutting my brain O-F-F !!
Feb 15, 2025
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You can always redownload it. If I keep opening Pinterest during work, just delete it for a while!! I can download it again.
Also we all know I mean Twitter and that I can’t go on it bc it will depress me .
Nov 7, 2024
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I like working out and when I leave a workout class and I feel sore and then I take an epsom salt bath and I get in bed and my body just feels like YEAH you USED ME TODAY YAY. I love that.
Feb 4, 2025