Danny Gottleib

Death By Consumption 5/20/25 - 5/26/25 Summer has arrived, and my armpits are already having a terrible time! The rest of me, so far, is loving it, but I know we're quickly steering into the days where I just sweat for 2-3 months nonstop,

Death By Consumption 5/13/25 - 5/19/25 I guess I should mention up front that it is my birthday today, which always makes me feel like a child when I have to acknowledge it. I'm the princess today! Treat me as such. Anyway, I'

Death By Consumption 5/6/25 - 5/12/25 Does anyone have a luxurious house with a pool you're not using over Memorial Day weekend, and would you like to lend it to me? I just think that would be really nice. Sound off in the replies

Death By Consumption 4/29/25 - 5/5/25 Well well well, if it isn't 1 year of Death By Consumption. A whole year of consuming things, and so far I haven't died! I started this as a thing I just wanted to do for

Death By Consumption 4/22/25 - 4/28/25 Look, some weeks I'm very timely with my cultural experiences, and other weeks it's a mishmash of 90s Spanish sexual melodramas and 50s Swedish art films. But that's the agony and the ecstasy of

Death By Consumption 4/15/25 - 4/21/25 (Last week's email was accidentally labeled #50, but it was actually #49. I just love round numbers, and I'm very impatient! Someday, perhaps, I will have an editor.) Ladies, how have you enjoyed the first week

Death By Consumption 4/8/25 - 4/14/25 Did you love paying your taxes today??? I have a visceral memory of being outraged during the Bush era that my taxes were going towards racist government torture prisons, an anger that was only somewhat lessened by the knowledge that

Death By Consumption 4/1/25 - 4/7/25 I do not expect any sympathy for this, but due to the nightmare that is air travel in this country, I arrived from LA past 2am last night, so this email is coming to you from a delirious haze. I

Death By Consumption 3/25/25 - 3/31/25 My Cali journey has unexpectedly continued into a second week, as I had to last-minute cancel a planned weekend in Montreal and instead stuck around in San Diego, where I enjoyed the classic California experience of feeling like shit in

Death by Consumption 3/18/25 - 3/24/25 Hello from San Diego, where I’m spending the week visiting family, having one of those things called a “beach vacation,” where things like writing and thinking and having opinions go to die. So who knows what’s going to