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Chris Turner-Neal's avatar

"Linda Kasabian still owes me twenty-five dollars" is the kind of phrase for which language was made.

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Joanna's avatar

Omggg literally one of my all time favorite things are your Joan Didion/Anna Wintour YouTube videos! They are literally a comfort to me

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Jo's avatar

Screaming and texting my friends as usual with choice excerpts to get them to subscribe 🫨

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Jo Ann Sison's avatar

pitch perfect, it's killing me! this Jo Ann is in love with this Joan :)

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Ben's avatar

Didion and I were cellmates in Solano for a few months. Don’t know what she was serving for, something about “resuming the ancient ways”. Good people as long as you didn’t mess with her shawls. After a while she got sent up to Pelican Bay, got wrote up too many times for how she contemplated almonds. I will always cherish the deeply cutting words she whispered in my ear before they dragged her out.

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Mike Oppenheim's avatar

Omg <3

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Darcy Fiona McNair's avatar

Ahhh...The quantum physics of Joan Dideon's kitchen...a triumph of her deepness.

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Jane M Schuster's avatar

I honestly don’t know what to make of this, and I don’t think I’m in on a joke, but it’s great fun anyhow. In other words, help!

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Daniel Lavery's avatar

I would be very happy to provide a light annotation if that would be useful, but I don't want to be tedious or overexplain anything! Would you like a quick rundown of the references? I am at your disposal!

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Alex (they/them)'s avatar

I'm giggling at the Linda Kasabian line! How dare someone not awaiting trial for gruesome murders not pay back their kindhearted reporter-and-confidant?

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Anton's avatar

Somewhere, Didion is watching this unfold from under an Hermès ashtray, sipping sugarless iced tea and whispering, “You’re still not getting the angle right.” The orange peel, the matchbox bed, the $25 Kasabian owes—it’s all canon now. I don’t want the real diaries. I want these. Trapezoidal thoracic segments and all.

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