While hailing Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones, King lets readers in on her own Samantha-inspired sexual history, from kink websites to threesomes and all the memorable romps in between. An essay on Jersey Shore becomes a celebration of her late father and the many hours they spent watching tanned gym rats make bad decisions. Her paean to Bath and Body Works’ signature Warm Vanilla Sugar perfume morphs into a meditation on desirability, and how young women dream of being consumed like sweet little pastries. King treats these pop culture relics as an archaeologist would, at once reverential and eager to understand. “Two hundred years ago, this country did not have the infrastructure to take a dish that was prepared with seasonal ingredients and replicate it in 10 different climates, and you can argue that we probably shouldn’t lean on that technology anymore, but it’s really cool that that was ever possible.” Naysayers be damned: “People sh*t on chain restaurants, but those things get popular for a reason - except Applebee’s they made a deal with the devil.”ĭelicious chain restaurants, Hot Topic, The Sims: Tacky explores all manner of things deemed lowbrow. “It legitimately is a miracle,” King tells Bustle of The Cheesecake Factory. It’s a sensation that King describes in her new book, Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer. Guzzling down the cream-coated ’00s mall nostalgia, you can’t help but smile between bites. Reading Rax King’s writing feels like eating fettuccine alfredo at The Cheesecake Factory.
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