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I like you. I just hate -those- people.
I'm sitting at a hotel bar in LA sipping a Manhattan and idly scrolling through my phone for waxed canvas field jackets. It's just a nightcap to take the edge off a six hour road trip. There's a British couple next to me, well into the demolition of a bottle of Pinot Grigio, and the wife turns to me and asks, "what's that you're drinking ( Read more... ) -
The Moth: Chemistry
When people ask us how we met, we take turns telling parts of the story, because it's so fun. There's a version of this that I'd post that is twice as long and perhaps I will someday, but this is the version that I used earlier this week when telling it to a hundred strangers at Oberon for another Moth Storyslam. Earlier in that evening, a woman ( Read more... ) -
15 years of jewel case, collage art, and hand sketched track listings
So, every year sometime around the holidays, usually a little after the New Year, my friends and I have been having this music mix swap party. Come to the party, bring a mix tape or CD, throw it into a communal pile, and at some point in the evening we'll draw randomly and you may go home with someone's electroswing highlight reel or someone will ( Read more... ) -
tokens
"You know," she said, "I still have a mixtape that you made for me from way back when ( Read more... ) -
swim, read, climb, repeat
August 2012, Hong Kong
ayun and I were eating at Tim Ho Wan, a dim sum joint with the distinction of having one Michelin star, and thus being the only Michelin restaurant in the world where you can have a meal for less than $20. We had somehow gotten to swapping stories about other cheap meals that we had elsewhere in the world, and she told me about ( Read more... )
