Last Flight Out
Our friend and amazing cartoonist Bill Brown is posting from Budapest now, after leaving Ukraine. You can follow his posts on his blog Native Cpeaker over at Substack. He’s on Instagram at takomabill.
Beautiful photos and history of the House with Chimerae, or the Horodecki House, named for the Polish architect Władysław Horodecki on Bill’s blog.
xoxoxo, d (and bella)
Share this:
No you didn’t. “Inventing Anna”
Yes. I did.
I got completely obsessed with Inventing Anna on Netflix.
And it took me a while to figure out why I was so obsessed. The Anna in the series is not likable or all that interesting. She definitely isn’t fascinating the way other scammers and serial criminals are fascinating. She isn’t Betty Broderick. I could watch Betty Broderick drive her SUV into Dan’s house on a loop.
But I eventually realized – after a little bit of reading and listening (see the pathetic, no-life list below) that the Netflix series raised a lot of questions but didn’t provide the answers.
Like how did she get all that money she was throwing around to pay for other people’s dinners and airline tickets? And where did all those hundreds come from? And how did she get lines of credit? Was she getting credit extended to her and then paying off enough that she could maintain a good credit rating? Is a good credit rating really not necessary to be a scammer? At one or two points I wondered if I was just stupid about credit.
