ALLIE ROWBOTTOM'S LOVE/HATE LIST (XL EDITION)

Dream Baby Press asked Allie Rowbottom for a list of 20 things she loves and 20 things she hates ❤️🚫

Allie Rowbottom is an LA based writer and author of the novel Aesthetica and the memoir Jell-O Girls. Her essays and short fiction can be found in Vanity Fair, Elle, The New York Times and elsewhere.

THINGS ALLIE ROWBOTTOM LOVES:

1. Smokey JAZZ with saxophone

2. Rosemary sourdough bread, lightly toasted with oat milk butter and a dash of salt

3. I also love Kalamata olive sourdough bread

4. Cultivating a physical hobby to balance your artistic angst. For example, I am a world champion equestrian

5. The Cobb salad at Café Viand on 85th and Columbus, dressing on the side

6. Eating an edible and talking about plot with Jon

7. The song Why Not Me by the Judds which, like it or not, is my go-to karaoke selection

8. Voice memos from my friends

9. Summer evenings at the barn by myself, doing horse girl stuff

10. Literary It Girls

11. Sitting down to write with a cup of Starbucks blonde roast cold brew, the kind you get in the grocery store fridge

12. Biologique Recherche P50W

13. Butter the bulldog (rest in power, Queen)

14. Early 1980s adult film stars Christy Canyon, Amber Lynn, Ginger Lynn and Porsche Lynn

15. A touch of lip filler (Restalyne only)

16. Eating a croissant in Paris

17. Sleeping for nine hours with my mouth taped shut

18. The eroticism of driving standard transmission

19. Packing up snacks, joints and June Shines and heading to Paradise Cove in Malibu on a hot summer weekday

20. Bearing witness to the joy of people I love

THINGS ALLIE ROWBOTTOM HATES:

1. Too much Botox

2. Most porn filmed after 1992

3. Emptying the drain-catch in the kitchen sink

4. Novels that pander rather than challenge

5. Looooong literary readings

6. Sugar alcohols

7. My phone

8. Spotty bananas

9. Stepping in water while wearing socks

10. Selfie distortion. Your nose is NOT that big

11. Twitter scolds – you’re projecting and it’s obvious

12. Hating in general – this list is difficult for me to write

13. Fentanyl ruining perfectly good party drugs

14. Cancer

15. Fire ants

16. Road rage

17. Red onions

18. Celebrities who gaslight the public for profit

19. Whoever it is that lets their dog poop on the sidewalk in front of my apartment and doesn’t pick it up

20. Saying goodbye to those I love