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BROTHELS OF NEVADA:  CANDID VIEWS OF AMERICA’S LEGAL SEX INDUSTRY

Girls’ Room, Chicken Ranch, 1986

Bedroom, Chicken Ranch, 1986

The Shamrock, Lathrop Wells, 1987

Timers in Kitchen, The Shamrock, 1987

Living Room, Fran’s Star Ranch, 1987

Domination Room, Fran’s Star Ranch, 1987

Parlor, Mustang Ranch, 1987

The Kids’ Room, Formerly Carlin Social Club, 1988

Mary Tyler Moore’s Laura Ashley-style bedroom. I like the light cast by the arched window. And the green carpet!

Mary Tyler Moore’s bathroom. The shower curtains!

Truman Capote’s Tiffany lamp and paperweights.

Pauline Trigère custom-made signature logo wallpaper and fabric.

Gore Vidal’s spartan bedroom in the Gulf of Salerno, Italy.

Robert Redford’s amazing Native American Kachina doll collection. So jealous.

My dream home by Diana Vreeland. She once said, “I want my home to look like a garden. A garden in hell!” The woman had IMPECCABLE taste.

Diana Vreeland’s dressing table. No space is left empty, just the way I like it.

Diana Vreeland’s bed and to-read pile. Great Royal books.

The face of Joan Crawford - exactly the kind of thing I’d expect to find in her house. This made me happy.

Yves Saint Laurent’s awesome sheep chairs. Again — so jealous!

Jean Arthur’s grotto-like fireplace. I love the driftwood coffee table.

Tiffany stained glass windows:

Tiffany lamps:

I live solo too and every now and then it can get a bit depressing, but mostly it’s fantastic. The good times certainly outweigh the bad. You can do whatever you want whenever you want, you don’t have to say “hi” and “bye” and then, “ok I’m gonna go to my room now” to someone else all the time. I can have total silence (that is, when the beast downstairs isn’t “jamming” on his drums), spend all day in my bathrobe, drink milk out of the bottle… who cares? Also nothing beats getting drunk alone in the comfort of your own home. I ask you, if you fall off the couch drunk, and no-one was there to see it, did it really happen?

These two are my favourites from this book:

This guy exercises by walking back and forth between rooms. He does 160 round trips of his house which equals four miles!

“I seen some strange things out here. I’m not saying I seen like spaceships or anything. This is strange. My brother told me he used to go out looking for UFOs. When I moved out here, he said, ‘Don’t go looking for them or they’ll look for you.’ He got the feeling that they were following him.”

“You have to have good taste to have bad taste. You have to know which rules to break.” — John Waters.

“Books. Cats. Life is good.” — Edward Gorey.

The Studio aka, where the magic happens.

A neat row of pills on the windowsill. Breakfast, lunch & dinner.

The library. YES I’M JEALOUS!

Charles Dickens. Bleak House.