Delia Cai

New York

Founder and Writer at Deez Links

I critique the culture .... yet I enjoy the culture .... suspicious! world famous newsletter Deez Links / previously @vanityfair / author of CENTRAL PLACES

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“What the shroom-ghost of J.C. says here in Revelations is exactly the problem with Democrats”

6 days ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ This final installment of Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨I hate Democrats. I know this will make a lot of you mad because I’ve seen Rachel Maddow’s comment section, aka Bluesky. But I’d like to make sure you’re mad about what I am saying, so let me start by clarifying what I’m not saying. I’m not saying I don’t hate Republicans.
“The Native New Yorker knows deep down that the most interesting thing about them is where they’re from rather than who they are.”

1 week ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

SURPRISE! Bonus Hate Read for you today, because hating on New York calls for a double-whammy at least…✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨A few summers ago, I was driving through what could be charitably called the downtown of Cody, Wyoming when I noticed a bumper sticker on the dark blue Ford F-150 idling ahead of me at a red light. “Wyoming is Full” it said.
“New York Writer Types write about New York with a special braindead automatism"

1 week ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨When I was a kid, I would watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 and laugh at all the references I didn’t understand. My favorite joke was when one of the robot puppets just rattled off the names of a bunch of B-movie actors and has-been celebrities for a full minute, uninterrupted. I didn’t recognize any of them, but somehow that didn’t matter.
“This is not to say that there aren’t assholes who are moms; there are many such cases.”

1 week ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨There is a mythic creature around which a sizable part of today’s parenting-chat revolves, a fictional character without whom much of what many parents say and do would simply have no meaning: the “judgy mom.” Everyone talks about the judgy mom but no one is her. She haunts nightmares, she animates defensive tyrades both on and off the internet.
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness as they bowed before this new altar of uncensored, uncurated, and utterly thoughtless photo dumps.”

1 week ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨It is truly possible to have too much of a good thing. It’s like gorging yourself on macarons until you throw up, or bingeing a show for so long that your eyes start to cross. And such is the case of the Instagram 20-photo carousel. The original 10-photo carousel was splendid. Perfect, even.
“I wonder if I’m making it worse, like how you can drink too much water."

1 week ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨ Look, it’s been 20 years. Maybe it’s time to call it. Maybe it’s time to manage my expectations and be way less ambitious about how happy I’m supposed to be. Perhaps it’s time for peace. Surrender. Capitulation. Like, why am I clinging heedlessly to this childish dream of living in New York and being a writer when there are clearly other paths?
Death of the media dream job

1 week ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

Last week, Radhika Jones announced that she was stepping down from Vanity Fair, where she has been the editor-in-chief for nearly eight years. A lively round of Guess the Replacement has already begun; my own assumption is that it will be either a seasoned Condé operator like Will Welch or someone with a deep, Sarah Moonves- or Willa Bennett-esque level of personally networked celebrity relations.
“Couches are, in so many ways, inferior compromises of furniture.”

1 week ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨If the world of cozy-humor Instagram accounts is to be believed, nearly every fleece-swaddled function of our daily anxiety-ridden lives can and does take place on the couch. Sleep on the couch. Eat on the couch. Binge-watch and drink on the couch.
Hate Read Live!

2 weeks ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

There’s still one more full week of delicious Hate Read programming for you — I hope you’re behaving in the comments! — but also, I bring news of a party…If you’re in New York next next week, come to Hate Read Live! at the Georgia Room on April 23, where a slate of Hate Read writers will read what they’ve been posting, and we can discuss it all in person, the way god intended all along. On the menu: Haterade, Gin & Toxic, and maybe even a Long Island Iced Deez?
“You are going to die whether or not your 14 followers heart your “why that monkey looking kind of thiqq” review on whichever CGI ape movie is currently in theaters.”

2 weeks ago | deezlinks.com | Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨“Letter-boxing” is when you put black bars on the side of a movie so that it can be centered properly on a television. But when you google “letterbox,” the first thing that comes up is the app. That’s reason enough to dislike Letterboxd.

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couches suck, actually https://t.co/hC2nCPW5Zy

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9 Apr 25

"Look what’s taking the place of reading and writing. Look at how the pleasure of precision — of finding exactly what it is you have to say — has been replaced by the blabbiness of podcasting, where every observation comes soaked through with the wine-drunk logic of someone

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Articles

“What the shroom-ghost of J.C. says here in Revelations is exactly the problem with Democrats”

“The Native New Yorker knows deep down that the most interesting thing about them is where they’re from rather than who they are.”

“New York Writer Types write about New York with a special braindead automatism"

“This is not to say that there aren’t assholes who are moms; there are many such cases.”

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness as they bowed before this new altar of uncensored, uncurated, and utterly thoughtless photo dumps.”

“I wonder if I’m making it worse, like how you can drink too much water."

Death of the media dream job

“Couches are, in so many ways, inferior compromises of furniture.”

Hate Read Live!

“You are going to die whether or not your 14 followers heart your “why that monkey looking kind of thiqq” review on whichever CGI ape movie is currently in theaters.”

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