Eliza Brooke
@elizapbrooke.bsky.social
Freelance culture writer. Improve your life and subscribe to The Scumbler.
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The fun stuff: elizabrooke.substack.com
More fun stuff: www.elizapbrooke.com
Since I can no longer spend summer afternoons in my parents' ice cold basement, here's how I'm dealing with the heat.
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10 recs for the stupid heat
How to cope.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Since I can no longer spend summer afternoons in my parents' ice cold basement, here's how I'm dealing with the heat.
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As the kids say, this is your sign to remind your best friend how much you love them.
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The real BFFs behind a perfect movie friendship
How Lauren Pomerantz wrote Am I OK?
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July 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As the kids say, this is your sign to remind your best friend how much you love them.
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To my horror, I quit caffeine
Even green tea. Even matcha!!!!
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July 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Everything Nora Ephron hated about DC <3
Reading Nora Ephron in D.C.
Not such a comforting experience, let me tell you.
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June 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Everything Nora Ephron hated about DC <3
Made it Substack official.
The Scumbler goes big
It's time.
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June 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Made it Substack official.
“I only like feedback from people who have skin in the game." My SSENSE profile of the brilliant Celine Song is now live!
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Celine Song’s Visions of Love
With her new A24 film “Materialists,” the celebrated director of “Past Lives” is drawing on her stint as a professional matchmaker to explore the twin topics of love and money.
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June 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“I only like feedback from people who have skin in the game." My SSENSE profile of the brilliant Celine Song is now live!
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Alex and I are all up in each other's business as freelancers, so I love interviewing married couples that work together. This week: the owners of La Tejana in DC!
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La Tejana's love story
"The Most Interesting Person in D.C." returns.
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June 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Alex and I are all up in each other's business as freelancers, so I love interviewing married couples that work together. This week: the owners of La Tejana in DC!
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Talked prepping for SURVIVOR with contestant Bianca Roses, who I have known since I was a baby reporter and she was a baby publicist!
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How Bianca Roses prepped for 'Survivor'
Plus: her special iced coffee recipe.
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May 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Talked prepping for SURVIVOR with contestant Bianca Roses, who I have known since I was a baby reporter and she was a baby publicist!
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This one goes out to everyone who has made some weird choices on The RealReal
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My RealReal misfires
Thank god this isn't a shopping newsletter.
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May 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This one goes out to everyone who has made some weird choices on The RealReal
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For the detail-oriented: How a Michelin-starred restaurant does its playlist, scented towels, bathroom soundtrack, etc...
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Atmospheric magic
Lessons in whipping up a beautiful experience.
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April 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
For the detail-oriented: How a Michelin-starred restaurant does its playlist, scented towels, bathroom soundtrack, etc...
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A great perfumer said that you could explode your mind by putting salt on strawberry yogurt, so I put salt on my strawberry yogurt. The results...
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Salted strawberry yogurt
An experiment.
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April 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A great perfumer said that you could explode your mind by putting salt on strawberry yogurt, so I put salt on my strawberry yogurt. The results...
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Hayao Miyazaki Would Hate You Losers
The famed animator is the last person who would approve of your little Ghibli-fied waste of pixels.
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March 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Readers are obsessed with her laminated jewelry! And so am I.
It's art for free
Claude Lubroth Reilly is the Most Interesting Person in D.C.
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March 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Readers are obsessed with her laminated jewelry! And so am I.
Now that I am out of my 16-day Covid quarantine, wherein I was glued to Instagram for lack of human contact, I can exclusively reveal that Reels is the dumbest place on earth
March 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Now that I am out of my 16-day Covid quarantine, wherein I was glued to Instagram for lack of human contact, I can exclusively reveal that Reels is the dumbest place on earth
The brattiest people on earth are the people sending questions to the @nytimes.com's various advice columns. I just have to click to know what delusions they're getting themselves into today!!
March 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The brattiest people on earth are the people sending questions to the @nytimes.com's various advice columns. I just have to click to know what delusions they're getting themselves into today!!
Twitter is 100% sexy bots now, isn't it
March 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Twitter is 100% sexy bots now, isn't it
I've been SUCH a grouch whilst holed up with Covid this week. However, there are a few things that made me smile.
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March 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I've been SUCH a grouch whilst holed up with Covid this week. However, there are a few things that made me smile.
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In which @ezwrites.bsky.social and I discuss the most interesting fashion narratives from awards season. (Nobody is doing it better than Colman and Timmy!)
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Awards fashion with Esther and Eliza
More glamour! More weirdness!
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March 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In which @ezwrites.bsky.social and I discuss the most interesting fashion narratives from awards season. (Nobody is doing it better than Colman and Timmy!)
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If you've ever worried about "figuring it all out," this one is for you.
Life after fashion
A conversation with Mona Kowalska.
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February 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If you've ever worried about "figuring it all out," this one is for you.
Whomsoever of you becomes my 500th NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBER will receive a free subscription FOR LIFE whenever I inevitably go paid!
(499 isn't a lot compared to many newsletters, but it is a lot for me, and I am very grateful that so many people want to read my Scumblings!)
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(499 isn't a lot compared to many newsletters, but it is a lot for me, and I am very grateful that so many people want to read my Scumblings!)
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February 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Whomsoever of you becomes my 500th NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBER will receive a free subscription FOR LIFE whenever I inevitably go paid!
(499 isn't a lot compared to many newsletters, but it is a lot for me, and I am very grateful that so many people want to read my Scumblings!)
elizabrooke.substack.com
(499 isn't a lot compared to many newsletters, but it is a lot for me, and I am very grateful that so many people want to read my Scumblings!)
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Drew some strangers with dogs for the newsletter. That's it!
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February 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Drew some strangers with dogs for the newsletter. That's it!
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Challenge your palate
The Most Interesting Person in D.C., Volume II.
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January 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM