Laura Maria Motta
@guttersniper
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Travel writer and editor. City life. Theater. Nonsense. Former staff at Lonely Planet, The Points Guy, ShermansTravel.
Brooklyn
Joined August 2008
Am not going anywhere for the time being. But if you’d like to follow me on Instagram, I’m lauramariamotta. There are pictures there.
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Can a baseball team have a cast recording? Asking for Derek Klena and me.
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This would be a damning admission under normal times but it’s barely news now
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Wait this is such a cute pic of Evan.
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Take a class. As a grownup. You will meet cool people.
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I’m crying, stop. Also, the most starstruck I have ever been in my life was with John Cameron Mitchell.
When I was finding myself as a young queer person, Hedwig and The Angry Inch was a beacon in the storm— showing me the power of queer artists creating their *own masterpieces for themselves to perform. Now, 20 years later, I get to hand over another such role, to the person who
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This week on The Escapologist: Famous American homes and famous American people, plus a quick guide to NYC holiday shopping that isn't entirely soulless. https://t.co/Q12mjPPUQN
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New Escapologist newsletter dropping in... twenty minutes. It's about... the fashionable homes of ghosts.
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A travel newsletter for the dreamy and disenchanted. Now get lost. Click to read The Escapologist, by Laura Motta, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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This September, 1986 route map combines the routes of both Continental and New York Air. #travel #avgeek #avgeeks #aviation #ContinentalAirlines #airline #airlines @flycontinental1
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Thinking a lot about how literacy isn’t a binary — i.e. either you can’t read or you can. And how it’s more like a muscle that you train over time.
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I’m actually so annoyed that wearing my readers helps me see better.
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I learned something extremely cool. The Guggenheim uses a scale model of the museum to plan new exhibits. They make approximate miniatures of all the available artworks and place them inside the model to determine where everything will go.
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Let Alysa teach us that being fu*kless is a super power.
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I was going to see [insert Broadway musical name here] tonight but I came home because it’s too cold and I didn’t like my outfit.
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I can’t believe I have to just go about my day after that.
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Kaori we can’t do this because you’re going to mess up that amazing eye makeup! 😭
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And another word for when you try to fix it and succeed… re: Adam.
There has to be a word for when you keep trying to fix your costume but you just make it worse.
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There has to be a word for when you keep trying to fix your costume but you just make it worse.
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