Nancy and Sarah discuss the Hulu/FX series The Shards, the new Bret Easton Ellis and Ryan Murphy jam. The 1981 LA vibes are right in Sarah’s sweet spot (Bonne Bell! Xanadu! The Go-Gos!). For Nancy, not so much, maybe because she lived it. They talk ennui and heroin overdoses and young people trying to prove nothing matters. Then it’s onto the recent shocking Perez Hilton livestream. Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face, in this case (all cases?), tragically.

Also discussed:

* Nightie Day!

* “My mom’s poochie.”

* Studio 54 days

* Rich Angeleno kids = meh

* Smoke ‘Em: Banned in Belarus!

* Sarah doesn’t read Nancy’s existing books but asks her to write others

* Wes Bentley’s eyebrows

* Rich kid names (Homer, Igby, Kaia)

* “Touch it!”

* Who IS Perez Hilton?

* Attention monsters of the Internet

* Women with long and thick silver hair, swoon

Plus, This Week in Kyle Chandler, a dystopic LA short story from Nancy (NB: which was just too gd long to post; it’s “X-Girl” in the collection), and much more!

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Nancy tells the story of a destroyed Jamie Slovak showing up in her yard at 6am on a June morning in 1988. His brother Hillel, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, had just overdosed, and Jamie, who spent a lot of time at Nancy’s West Hollywood house those days, needed comfort. Nancy has not seen Jamie in decades and was glad to learn just now that he is involved in this doc, which came out earlier this year.

Episode Notes:

“‘The Shards’ Soundtrack Is Incredible – Here’s Every Song From The First Two Episodes” (Elle/Yahoo)

“Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for FX’s Predictably Excess-Soaked Tale of Prep-School Sex, Drugs and Murder” (Hollywood Reporter)

The Bad Mother: A Novel, by Nancy Rommelmann

“Perez Hilton ‘Will Require Surgery’ After Live Stream Incident, Family Demands Media ‘Cease Photographing Perez’s Children’” (Variety)

Official Family Statement on PerezHilton.com

This Week in Kyle Chandler:

What’s in your hot box?

Nancy: Nike Training Club app

Sarah: