editorlisa

“I always wonder if that faint tinge of hustle and desperation that hangs in the LA air like its own kind of smog has to do with all the people who grew up attractive and got singled out for their looks in smalltown USA or wherever it is they came from — places where a tall thin unusually attractive person might be granted a kind of weird pseudocelebrity-like status just by virtue of being a little bit like a freak — and then came to LA to “make it” only to discover that they’re actually not as tall/thin/hot as that smalltown had led them to believe and so what the hell do they do now when it appears that other factors — talent, for example, and maybe even some education and IQ — might be required if they’re to distinguish themselves from the rest of the beautiful herd?”