Guardian - 21 January 2018, 18:00 (+ 2307 days 17 hours and 20 minutes) In Depth/Analysis
I am sad I will miss the website’s second live event – if only because it would provide test subjects for my study on the correlation between assets and stupidityDo you think it is good Gwyneth Paltrow has largely stopped acting? Wait – let me finish the question. Do you think it is good she has stopped acting and now devotes her energy to flogging sex dust and vaginal eggs? If so, get to New York, which this week hosts the second Goop summit, provisionally titled Goop 2: Expensive and Expensiver.Anyone #blessed enough to be unfamiliar with Paltrow’s lifestyle company and the range of wallet-colonic products it sells and promotes should check it out. Past highlights in a “ridiculous (and awesome) gift guide” include $956 luxury toilet paper and a banana guard that costs $395. In fairness, the site changed tack a while ago. It is now full of articles about whether underwired bras give you cancer and crystals cure infertility. You can buy lavish wellness unguents, plus spiritual aids such as reiki-charged aromatherapy mist ($28) and psychic vampire repellent made with sonically tuned water ($28). A steal. Continue reading...