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Frankly

I couldn’t be further from the responsibility of naming a child but I always tell my mom I’m going to name my future child Frankly (she hates this idea).

@valoorie

Nov 2, 2024

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i won't tell anyone my dream baby names

(hint: it's my great grandmother's name, and my favourite childhood novel protagonist)

@unreliablenarrator

Nov 2, 2024

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Probably just going to stay a childless MILLENNIAL dog mom forever

because I cannot handle the thought of the radical transformation to my body and my life but… * Charlotte (my great grandmother‘s name; she went by Lottie… she owned the first plant nursery in my hometown after moving there from Mississippi and she also grew prize-winning chrysanthemums and roses. this is my favorite one) * Katherine (another great-grandmother’s name. She grew up in a Norwegian ethnic community in Iowa, worked at a bomb factory during the war, and eventually ended up in a biker gang in her old age) * Johanna or Joanna (I just always wished this were my name it’s so dignified) * Anne (same as above and I love Anne of Green Gables lol) * Chloe (no reason I just like it) — * James (long-standing family name, in honor of a dearly departed relative) * Thomas (in honor of my dad’s late best friend Tom who was my ‘uncle’—he was everything to me!) * Jonathan (my dad’s name) * William (another family name) * Charles (I just love this one) * Henry (LOVE this one) * Gore (after Gore Vidal obviously but also as a way of preserving my family name which is also why he named himself that; he felt a connection to that side of his family and his beloved grandparents but Gore was his mother’s surname… he was originally named Eugene Luther lmao)

@taterhole

Nov 2, 2024

Top Recs from @kaitlin-phillips

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Labi Saffre - Bless the Telephone and You’re Lovely

I thought Labi Saffre was a woman, he’s not. Nice quality in a singer. Anyway, these are two of the best love songs ever written. I first heard You’re Lovely on repeat on mushrooms. It’s :32 seconds. I recommend the experience.

@kaitlin-phillips

Oct 21, 2021

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Henry Jaglom

Henry makes a lot of low key insufferable navel-gazey films that I really enjoy. Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995) is his best. A matriarch presides over her family, who are all somehow involved in the theatre. It makes you wish you grew up with intellectuals in a house by the sea. Eating: A Very Serious Comedy about Women and Food is so annoying, it’s just women saying they’re fat at a party in Los Angeles, but my friend and his wife have the poster in their dining room, and it’s a great poster, I recommend getting it. He’s alive, Henry is, my translator friend knows him, she’s his muse, though she’s turned the camera back on him, her documentary on him needs a place to screen, if you’re a gallerist, get in touch. Support living artists!

@kaitlin-phillips

Oct 21, 2021

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Jemima Kirke’s mom’s instagram

Jemima Kirke’s mom used to own the West Village boutique Geminola. Now she hawks her wares on instagram: weird bits of lace, chintzy lampshades, delicate tablecloths with tassels, everything is pale peach or dusty mauve, completely out of style, I love it all. Also if you need a velvet dress for Christmas parties, just dm her, she has hundreds. I think she’s just selling everything in her house.

@kaitlin-phillips

Oct 21, 2021