an infinite line of employees walk by with increasingly stranger finger foods on platters. they put a glass of champagne into my hand. how long have i been here? i can't remember. the glass is empty. the infinite line refills the champagne before i notice.
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I literally spat my coffee at “I ask someone eating a plate of chicken why they’re against bestiality.”
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as someone who grew up from a poor/immigrant background this is so fucking accurate
it's hard going back too, how do you explain your life now to people who work as contractors and never went to college or never left their small town?
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having gone on a sociological safari of rich-people parties myself, i'm convinced the demographic is woefully understudied relative to how much there is to discover
but maybe that's just because i felt like an outsider too...
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This is one of your best essays ever - and I think I've read all of the ones on Knowingless and some of your Substack.
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It technically counts as a boarding school: After graduating high school, I went for two years to a more prestigious high school for intensive study and competitive exams, and the first year we had rooms on site, just over the classrooms.
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Hmm successful workaholics having nothing in common with someone whose only job in their entire life is being hot ? Damn that shit is shocking
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the very best startup founders are way more like you than you’d think
but the vast majority of founders are exactly like you are describing
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But for all tell this, I'd be even more a fish out of water in this kind of event.
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