Hello everyone. This morning I saw some Substack celebrities like
and and at Café Telegrama. I also met a Los Angeles college student in a jacket looking sick as hell. If you’re in LA and want a Feed Me hat or slightly Halloween-y Feed Me ouroboros cookies baked by , I’ll be there again tomorrow morning.
I’ve been dabbling with the idea of activating Feed Me’s menswear community. Based on the excitement around the topic whenever it’s brought up in the chat or the comment section, I think you guys want more. This week, a special contributor who goes by the name Brooks Otterlake on X is making the case for custom pants.
Today’s letter also includes: Adam Rapoport’s alleged new job, a Frenchette chef took a job at a members’ club, David Portnoy’s new project, and more.
You deserve a perfect pair of pants.
One simple trick to save your life.
By Brooks Otterlake who writes on Substack.
Do you wear pants? If so, maybe you’ve felt it. The mysterious discontent you can’t quite shake. You’re walking around town, and it’s a beautiful day, but something’s not right. You sense it as you put one foot in front of the other: this isn’t the way things are supposed to be. You’re not the man you’re supposed to be.
The problem is your pants. The solution is pants made for you, not someone else. Allow me to explain.
If your pants are wrong, your entire life is wrong. David Lynch, in a 2020 interview with GQ, said this:
“I am searching for a good pair of pants. I never found a pair of pants that I just love. I like comfortable pants and clothes I can work in, that I feel comfortable in. I don’t really like to get dressed up. I like to wear the same thing every day and feel comfortable. It’s a fit, it’s a certain kind of feeling, and if they’re not right, which they never are, it’s a sadness. You know, it interrupts the flow of happiness. I’m working on it, believe me.”
It’s likely he died without ever finding the pants he was looking for. This saddens me almost as much as his death itself.
You don’t have to suffer like he did. You will almost certainly die at some point, but you can do so with the satisfaction of having lived a life in pants that were perfect.