“DO YOU LIKE SPACE? DO YOU WANT TO DO A FEMINISM? CALL NOW.”
That Elle cover story, plus the '80s delights of the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Cookbook, and Kevin falls into the world of ironic belt buckles.
Recently I fell down a Etsy wormhole, as I am wont to do, and I finally pulled the plug on a variety of items I’d been eyeballing — several of which will make their appearances here eventually,1 and one of which is making its appearance here today:
As a child, I was obsessed with Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, the syndicated TV show on which this book was based. My mother hated me watching it — probably for good reason; I think she (likely correctly) thought everyone on this show was an asshole — so I had to sneak it at my grandmother’s house, where I was generally allowed to do whatever I wanted. I don’t know that I admired any of the people featured on LotRaF; then, as now, I was primarily nosy about the inside of these people’s houses, and fancy swimming pools and what people served at their dinner parties, and this was the only show that dove into that.
Although this cookbook was published in 1992, it is easily one of the most ‘80s artifacts I have ever seen. (A little known fac…