Magazine Hires Conde Nast Beauty Editor/Addict to Pen Drug Use Column

[3OctaveFart]

Re: Magazine Hires Addict to Pen Drug Column

That is one misshapen figure.
The hard stuff really will twist you beyond recognition.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Re: Magazine Hires Addict to Pen Drug Column

I've read her for the past year, and found her fascinating in a Hunter S. Thompson sort of way. But I also wondered how she stayed employed, never mind how she managed to arise in the morning/afternoon to meet deadlines. Which she did, as well as post video and blog, so I guess in some ways she'd be an asset in today's climate.

I'd wager she does a lot of exaggerating, if not outright lying, about how much she "parties."

Not sure about that, since much of her writing was accompanied by self-taken pictures of the debauchery from the previous night. I can barely function the next day after a couple glasses of wine, so I admit to following her with a slight envy over how she could crawl out of bed and still write such witty, coherent copy. (I'm not in any way saying young writers should emulate her, because I'd wager she'll be on the side of Amy Winehouse someday, possibly soon.)

Unless she's posting video of every bump of coke, swallowing of a pill and smoking of a dust-laced joint, then I wouldn't buy it.

She's no different than, say, a columnist who is contrarian for contrarian's sake because that's what made him famous. She got a job because she uses drugs. So she'll be the biggest druggie the world has seen in a moronic attempt at fame and fortune.

Now that's not to say she's not an addict. And it damn sure isn't implying she's not a forking idiot. She's likely the former and absolutely the latter.

 

[disgruntledgrunt]

Nice to see a former Newhouse employee get hired.

 

[Tom Petty]

I've read her for the past year, and found her fascinating in a Hunter S. Thompson sort of way. But I also wondered how she stayed employed, never mind how she managed to arise in the morning/afternoon to meet deadlines. Which she did, as well as post video and blog, so I guess in some ways she'd be an asset in today's climate.

I'd wager she does a lot of exaggerating, if not outright lying, about how much she "parties."

Not sure about that, since much of her writing was accompanied by self-taken pictures of the debauchery from the previous night. I can barely function the next day after a couple glasses of wine, so I admit to following her with a slight envy over how she could crawl out of bed and still write such witty, coherent copy. (I'm not in any way saying young writers should emulate her, because I'd wager she'll be on the side of Amy Winehouse someday, possibly soon.)

Unless she's posting video of every bump of coke, swallowing of a pill and smoking of a dust-laced joint, then I wouldn't buy it.

She's no different than, say, a columnist who is contrarian for contrarian's sake because that's what made him famous. She got a job because she uses drugs. So she'll be the biggest druggie the world has seen in a moronic attempt at fame and fortune.

Now that's not to say she's not an addict. And it damn sure isn't implying she's not a forking idiot. She's likely the former and absolutely the latter.

i dunno, inks. the more i think about this person and the column in which she writes, the more interested i become.
i think it's easy to write her off, but i do believe the drug culture has become so huge, that there's a call to give it a voice. does it work out? probably not. but i don't mind watching her fail ... just one guy's POV.

 

[Lugnuts]

As a 29-year-old, she's an adorable trainwreck. As a 34-year-old, she'll be aging roadkill.

She'd better snort up her 15 minutes while she can.

 

[YGBFKM]

If nothing else, her lifestyle would make it easier to be a parent.

 

[alanTdot]

Wow, lots of sneering-down-your-nose comments from an area of journalism that has never had any drug addicted writers in its midst, right? If only alcohol wasn't a drug.

Cat Marnell has talent, like it or not, and an audience.

Nostalgia is forking boring

 

[SalukiNC]

She likes pills ... a lot

 

[wicked]

As a 29-year-old, she's an adorable trainwreck. As a 34-year-old, she'll be aging roadkill.

She'd better snort up her 15 minutes while she can.

Yes, yes, yes, yes (provided she's alive at 34).

 

[Tom Petty]

Wow, lots of sneering-down-your-nose comments from an area of journalism that has never had any drug addicted writers in its midst, right? If only alcohol wasn't a drug.

Cat Marnell has talent, like it or not, and an audience.

Nostalgia is forking boring

wow, score alan with some snark.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Wow, lots of sneering-down-your-nose comments from an area of journalism that has never had any drug addicted writers in its midst, right? If only alcohol wasn't a drug.

Cat Marnell has talent, like it or not, and an audience.

Nostalgia is forking boring

Too bad she's wasting that talent.

 

[FileNotFound]

Addiction sucks. It's sure as heck not something to celebrate.