Rachel Profiling

Hello, I'm Rachel.

Writer/editor. New Mexican tumbleweed blown east to skyscraper country.

Right now, I am working on a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham, and Hollywood in the 1930s. It will also contain a lot of drinking, powder blue suits, dances at the Cocoanut Grove, betrayal, gossip columns, crazy ladies, secret Jews, film lot moguls, and Dorothy Parker quips at funerals. If the world is still around then, it should be out from Random House around 2014. So let's hope the Mayans were wrong.

If you want to say hi please do. Or find me in short form, here.

May 5th 2008

I know that this is sort of morbid, but in terms of design alone, I am sort of sold on these new coffin couches. They are made from recycled caskets that cannot ever be used due to slight imperfections, and on an aesthetic level, they take on a whole new life (so to speak) as furniture. Just a quick note to the company: perhaps you may want to lighten things up a bit and not place the setee underneath what looks like the creepy lamp above a dentist chair. Just thinking out loud here.

(thanks peggy for the link)

Posted at 11:33pm.

I know that this is sort of morbid, but in terms of design alone, I am sort of sold on these new coffin couches. They are made from recycled caskets that cannot ever be used due to slight imperfections, and on an aesthetic level, they take on a whole new life (so to speak) as furniture. Just a quick note to the company: perhaps you may want to lighten things up a bit and not place the setee underneath what looks like the creepy lamp above a dentist chair. Just thinking out loud here.(thanks peggy for the link)

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