Last week was Art Basel. I talked to Katja (Meant to Text) this weekend while she was in the airport back to LA (the perfect place to get an unexpected phone call is an airport, we agreed) and she said “I’m never not going.” And so I asked her to give us a dispatch from the sordid glam of Miami.
xoxo SCREMES
The Roundup
Links to the stories you should be reading this week
It seemed everyone was thinking about the metaverse last week — me, Rachel Tashjian, Dean Kissick. ✺ On behalf of freelancers owed thousands of dollars, New York City sues L’Officiel. ✺ Susie Essman plays dress-up in some ridiculous hats. ✺ The ‘birds aren’t real’ faux conspiracy flirts with the confusion of living in post-truth times. ✺ Cat Marnell’s Miami travel guide.
The Long Read
The week’s keynote story
Only going to read one thing? Read me.
Whooped at Miami | A Set of Pics & Stanzas by Katja Gober
When in doubt go to Deuce — A text from Cat Marnell
It’s good to get away from shit
and in front of all this stuff
Fendi Swim-trunks, Work Vacations
Art a start for Conversations
Hotel Lobbies, Invitations
Wrist Bands get in free
A violin accompanies my walk down Ocean Drive
Caesar salads, string quartet
NFT? We just met!
A hostel with a hotel room
The bathroom looks like Gucci Bloom
Miami but with table cloths
Miami but it’s cold
Miami makes me younger
Dipped in digital gold
Nicole Buffett’s Crypto Mansion
The other Franco drives a bus
Butt to brick at Faena,
playing Who Would get with us
At Walgreens with The Flipflop
The Soho House plays Clue
attract
distract
and then come back
A game of who knows who
My Intuition loves me, my privilege gets me in
An influential optimistic HOT GIRL takes Miami FTW
Basel Beachwear, my MET Gala
Double champagnes and a shot
Rhetorically, exclusive
Conceptually, not