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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Pahrump—about an hour west of Vegas—is also where you’ll find the nearest brothels. Sex work isn’t actually legal in Sin City, or anywhere else in vast Clark County. Pahrump is just over the Nye County line.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Funny to notice the pool is heated because it’s the first time in six months that the air temperature has been lower than the water temperature.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

It has always seemed painfully on-the-nose that the most MAGA town in southern Nevada rhymes with Trump.

Further west, Pahrump received
roughly 1.5 inches of rainfall as
storms passed over the Nye County
town on Sunday, according to
weather service data.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

The inevitable tangent on a tangent, thinking of Ronstadt in the ‘70s, that whole LA vibe and era. Is putting Eve Babitz on your radar if she’s not already there. She designed album covers and shot this photo of Ronstadt for the Heart Like a Wheel inner sleeve […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Cover: SLOW DAYS,
FAST COMPANY
THE WORLD, THE
FLESH, AND L.A.
EVE BABITZ
INTRODUCTION BY
MATTHEW SPECKTOR

A black and white photo of Ronstadt with shoulder-length dark hair and bangs sitting cross-legged on a patterned blanket, holding a bouquet of dried flowers.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

And since I’ve not posted it in a while, and an Eagles tie-in, the most perfect live performance imaginable of my favorite Ronstadt tune: ‘Faithless Love’ by JD Souther. Atlanta, 1977. youtu.be/hd8R18MpFLU

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

As a pal asks if it were ‘Desperado’ (it was ‘New Kid in Town’) I’m randomly reminded of a conversation with Steve Levitan. Yonks ago, before MODERN FAMILY, back in the JUST SHOOT ME! era. Anyway, he brought up ‘Desperado’ and I’d started to say I preferred Linda Ronstadt’s version when I […]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Something charming about the elderly Filipina woman singing Eagles karaoke from the food court section of Seafood City while I get angsty about the fact they don’t have the brand of fresh ramen I prefer.

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Stacey Campbell @stacey-campbell.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

@Holberg I dimly recall some of his creations were notorious for having a leaking roof. Spouse worked in Frank Gehry's Binoculars Building in Venice quite a few years ago, and water would pour in when it rained. I think a baseline for these architects should be: must not let in rain. Function […]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

@stacey_campbell Yes! Leaky roofs were a chronic issue. Hollyhock PLAGUED by them. Didn’t know it was still happening as late as Gehry! And an especially shocking problem somewhere it hardly ever rains.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Just by way of example—you’re not generally allowed to sit in any chairs on a tour, but at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, there was a long presentation in a theater space. And I was trying to convey how uncomfortably low the benches were by photographing the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

While appreciating Frank Lloyd Wright’s genius, I’ve also always felt that he was—fundamentally—a sadist. Not just an awful person who treated his clients badly but an architect who seemed to want them to be uncomfortable. As visually appealing as, say […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Sue, 78, and Gary, 81, aren't just finicky landlords
- they're fastidious stewards of an architectural
gem. Multiple times a week, they hand over the
keys to the William and Mary Palmer House,
designed in the late 1940s by Frank Lloyd Wright,
the legendary architect and pioneer of "organic
architecture," the idea that homes and buildings
should exist in harmony with the natural
environment. Built of cypress and brick, the three-
bedroom home features an equilateral triangle
motif, with hexagonal beds and interior walls that
meet at 60 and 120 degrees.
Frank Lloyd Wright's William and Mary Palmer House in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. (Mark Hertzberg)

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Feeling bad for all the renaissance fair vendors because it was shut down today due to extreme weather threats. And for myself because of the shrieking from my phone that startled me awake this morning at 5:30 to warn about wind, flash flooding, etc.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

The desert novelty of a shirt that’s wet because you’re walking home in a drizzle rather than 105-degree heat.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

This makes me sad—one of those situations where you hoped it wasn’t what it could be but of course that’s what it was. One of my biggest thrills in a dozen years on Twitter was the moment—in line for Mr Toad at Disneyland—that I got an alert Crystal had followed me. Fastest follow-back ever haha.

Crystal Harris says
she was 'absolutely
brainwashed' while
living at Playboy
Mansion with Hugh
Hefner
The model and the *Playboy" founder
were married from 2012 until his death in
2017, after which she began to share
disturbing accounts of life inside the
mansion.
By Ryan Coleman
Updated on October 10, 2026
Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris in Las Vegas in
2010 PHOTO: Denise Truscello/Wirelmage

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Someone’s choice of ‘Still the Same’ by Bob Seger making me happy—never mentioning Hollywood, not obviously about Hollywood, but still the best song about Hollywood in my opinion.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The Pageant of the Masters venue is just a few blocks inland. Like a lot of stuff on ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT that seemed too kooky to be true, elaborate tableaux vivants are a real thing that've happened every summer for almost a century.

George Michael Bluth as Adam but wearing denim shorts à la his never-nude uncle Tobias.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Laguna Beach has an advantage over places like Newport Beach and Long Beach because most of the waterfront houses are on low bluffs above the sea—as long as they don’t collapse, a storm surge shouldn’t threaten anywhere except the low-lying downtown commercial district.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

These swells at Main Beach in Laguna are bananas. That raised, undulating boardwalk is usually at the back of the beach—not the shoreline. And just the start of El Niño, yikes.

DEERE
Tropical storm-induced waves and high tides flood Main Beach
Park, where a back-ho digs out a berm at the boardwalk in
Laguna Beach on Friday. (Don Leach / Staff Photographer)

City crews watch as heavy equipment digs out a berm at the
boardwalk at Main Beach Park in downtown Laguna Beach on
Friday. (Don Leach / Staff Photographer)

Beach-goers watch a back-ho dig out a berm at the boardwalk
at Main Beach Park in downtown Laguna Beach on Friday. (Don
Leach / Staff Photographer)

An aerial photo of Main Beach shows the usual placement of the boardwalk

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

And then a perfect sentence from the BBC encapsulating the omni-remedial nature of Trump's intellect.

Last year, Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stere explained to Trump
it was an independent committee based in Norway, not the Norwegian
government, which decides who will receive the prize.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

When you know Trump’s only obsessed with it because Obama got one. Like, he’d also be obsessed with winning SURVIVOR or getting a second date on LIVE CONNECTION if that’s what Obama had done.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@darkuncle Yes -- all these preliminary effects really don't bode well.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

All the Republicans on Balboa Island -- a short ferry ride away -- who vote like climate change is a hoax nevertheless raised their seawall several years ago. The new darker section of concrete is still visible.

The seawall next to the boardwalk looking across the harbor to the Balboa Pavilion as described.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

WOW this flooding just happened on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach. I lived several blocks east of this during the 97-98 El Niño in an old 1920s bungalow built smack on the sand and was so concerned about this that I moved all the books from bottom […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Sky5 was over massive flooding on the Balboa Peninsula in'/Newport Beachy Calif. due to high tides on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (KTLA)

Aerial map surrounding Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

And now a group of women in what look like Laura Ashley dresses from the early ‘80s. Mom had a brief phase of that. Are they coming back?

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

And over at Wynn the poor guy who must’ve packed thinking ‘October’ and is wearing a turtleneck with a blazer.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

All the rich-kid hotties streaming to the Encore pool party on what might be the last hot—90 on the way to 95—Friday of the year.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

We must’ve looked so louche to him when he first started dating my sister—the family whose first priority at any party or event was identifying the location of the bar. ALTHOUGH his ex-wife belonged to a televangelist family so he might’ve been familiar with a lot of other loucheness haha

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The funniest thing to me is that my brother-in-law never really drank before he met us. Raised Southern Baptist and sort of passively teetotal. But now he's more hifalutin about wine and booze than any of us. New convert energy haha.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

My nephew is always making me laugh. He made labels for his oenophile father so my sister wouldn't keep inadvertently opening Very Expensive Bottles when she only wanted something red with a weeknight dinner while he was out of town.

Three bottle have looped labels around their necks reading: Drink with Ease, If You Have To and Do Not Drink

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I can spot it at a hundred paces, the hallmark of a very British freelance writer type: An endless churn of personal essays with some kind of trending-topic hook. I can practically hear the pitch machine always running in their heads as they go about daily life […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

THE COS TIMES
THE SUNDAY TIMES
My teen son's
'ancestral eating' habit
is costing me £300 a
month
Her 17 year-old's diet consists of raw milk,
oysters, grass-fed beef — but is this expensive
health fad worth the cost?

I was diagnosed with
ADHD aged 47 - this
Swedish retreat made m...
1 week ago
Georgina Fuller
The i Paper

What it's really like on the
Cotswolds school run:
Kamikaze nannies in 4x4...
4 weeks ago
Georgina Fuller
Daily Mail

40 years ago, I missed
out on the trip of lifetime.
This is how I recreated it
1 month ago
Georgina Fuller
HELLO! Magazine

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Yes, Scientology is a scam that charges people outrageous sums for moving through its levels. But it’s not exactly chump change when a churchgoer tithes 10% of their income for decades. Maybe I’m thinking in a comparative sense that it isn’t entirely black and white, i.e. as if Scientology […]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

A story about Katie Miller as MAGA Washington’s hostess extraordinaire. And I looooove this—private entertainment is something of a necessity for that vile crowd. And how boring it must be that it’s always the same people.

"It's almost the whole Cabinet,"
one regular guest of the Millers'
tells Vanity Fair. "Sometimes we
joke: 'Do we need a designated
survivor for this one?''
Yet there is a distinct difference between Katie
and the hostesses of yore. Whereas her
forebears used dinner parties as a sterling
silver route to power, friends of the Millers
who spoke with Vanity Fair say she started
hosting at home to avoid the hostility they say
greets high-visibility Trump officials out in
town. "They need to do something to blow off
steam because they're not welcome in public,"
says one. "They can't go to any venue without
being assaulted. They have to do this stuff in
Camelot."

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I just keep imagining all the photos of pitch-black smokers’ lungs they used to show us in 1980s health classes.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I can cope with it—no problem—in casinos where most people aren’t actually smoking. But getting stuck next to a chain-smoker at a bar is just gross.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I really live in the wrong place to be reaching a point in my life where cigarette smoke is just disgusting.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

It shouldn’t be wild to me at this point but it’s still wild to me that the ‘family values’ political-media complex seems—instinctively—not only to be taking the side of gang rapists but attacking their victim. And in the case of Megyn Kelly, attacking Olivia Rodrigo for supporting the victim […]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Christ, now I'm in the mood for THE chopped salad -- by which I mean the original at La Scala in Beverly Hills -- which is perfection no one copies properly even though it's very straightforward.

Insalata & Panini
LA SCALA CHOP SALAD HALF 15.95 FULL 17.95
LETTUCE, SALAMI, MOZZARELLA CHEESE, MARINATED GARBANZO BEANS WITH LEON DRESSING

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The True Food bankruptcy doesn't really affect me because it's nowhere I ever choose -- and it seems the one at Caesars isn't closing -- but I will say I'm always happy to go when it's the sort of restaurant someone prefers because I like their chopped salad […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

CHOPPED SALAD
organic mixed greens & romaine blend, aged
white cheddar, farro, medjool dates, jicama,
organic apples, raisins, almonds, champagne
vinaigrette
(15g protein | 640 cal)
VEG

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I’ve lived in Beverly Hills on and off since I was a little kid—most recently most of the 2010s—and stay subscribed to texts because a lot of them amuse me. Like this one that just arrived. Phew!

Today 10:47 AM
There is NO current emergency
in the City of Beverly Hills. The
City of Beverly H... https://.
evb.gg/n#26kkkpsxjut/OmujlpNa
or
Reply with YES to confirm
receipt.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

It cracks me up when Christians who believe every word of the Bible is literally true dismiss everyone else’s woo-woo beliefs with a ‘How could any intelligent person believe in that?’ attitude.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

We’ve established Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor isn’t exactly clever. But I’d have still given him more credit than the lunacy of reminding everyone of his disgrace so he can score a legal point the judge qualifies as technical and having no bearing on the larger […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

In London on Thursday, local time, the High
Court of Engalnd and Wales heard there
were legal issues with the way the search
warrants were granted by a judge in The
Old Bailey earlier this year.
While Thames Valley Police have accepted
the warrants were technically unlawful,
they are reapplying to keep the material in
question retrospectively using different
laws.
In court on Thursday, the presiding judge
Mr Justice Hillard said "the fact that the
search warrants were quashed does not
bring an investigation to an end, or mean
that the whole of the investigation was
unlawful".
In a statement issued after Thursday's
hearing, a Thames Valley Police
spokesperson said: "We accept the
position that the initial court's decision to
issue warrants under the specific piece of
legislation used was incorrect and
therefore these must be legally quashed."

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The agony when summer has been grasping at our heels like a horror movie killer who isn’t actually dead yet so we won’t get a shoulder of very pleasant 80s autumn—even just a few weeks—before plunging from the 90s to the 60s.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Very sorry to hear Curtis Flowers has died. His astoundingly agonizing story told superbly by Madeleine Baran in season two of a podcast called In the Dark. RIP Mississippi Today: Curtis Flowers, wrongly imprisoned, enduring six trials, dead at 56 […]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I rather share Hitchcock's taste for blonde ice queens and something notable about Eva Saint Marie -- to me -- is that she reads as unusually warm in NORTH BY NORTHWEST. I'm not complaining! She just seems like an outlier in the oeuvre.

A still of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST, reclined on a train's sofa.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Eva Marie Saint dying at 102 is one of those reminders of how compressed our modern history is -- like, it hardly even seems like 'history' when someone who was still alive last week was already 20 years old when Nazi Germany fell.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Haha and ‘Higher Love’ reminding me of Mom asking in the car what Steve Winwood was singing and I joked it was ‘bring me a hired love’ and until I proved the actual title she was ready to confiscate that cassette.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

‘Never Surrender’ plays and—that summer of 1985—I thought it was the deepest song I’d ever heard.

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