I have a notebook from this obnoxious British heritage brand called Smythson, and on the front cover it says, in gold leaf, “Charming in Character and Appearance.” The only thing in this particular notebook is pages upon pages of what I call “unforgivable things”: confusing Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster; referring to anything as “edgy”; when a bartender asks me, “Vodka or gin?” when I order a martini (which, by definition, is gin-based). Item number 4 is: Using words without understanding their definitions. If you are in LA, then you run into this all the time. Not because people in LA are stupid or don’t read books (they are, and they don’t), but because Los Angeles seems to be ground zero for exes being “narcissists…”
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