The internet can feel like a depressing flood of AI-generated content and ads.
But a daily newsletter called Perfectly Imperfect offers a modest corrective: it's all about the quirky things people like.
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Public figures share deeply personal preferences, from Francis Ford Coppola's love of Hawaiian shirts and halva to Kylie Jenner's fondness for washi masking tape and fresh wasabi.
These aren't polished endorsements; they're odd, often unappealing delights.
New York magazine's Strategist section regularly features weird celebrity essentials. Lena Dunham likes tiny ornamental mice and clicker-training her pigs.
Kristin Scott Thomas loves toe rings and dog poo bags. Dream Baby Press publishes love and hate lists where notables air very personal preferences.
David Sedaris loves feeding crows hard-boiled eggs and hates British women painting their nails on trains.
Richard Gadd loves slapping supermarket watermelons and hates how his dad eats yogurt. The appeal goes beyond celebrity gossip.
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There's a growing pessimism about taste.
Silicon Valley's interest in being cool, as AI tries to master human taste, has been described as "tasteslop" — bland, algorithmically amplified preferences.
It's easy to feel helpless.
Yet these weird assertions of individuality are a reminder that humans are fascinating and surprising in ways algorithms will never fathom.
They make me curious to explore my own likes: 1940s pony stories, baroque arias, Flemish painting backgrounds, and saints' relics.
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So go on, tell me yours.
