• Link Party: 1/30-2/3

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. This article on how Taylor Swift made her career on being a victim has the Receipts. (This blog is vehemently anti-Taylor Swift. Don’t @ me.) 2. Rahawa Haile on being a black female thru-hiker on the Appalachian Trail. 3. The heart-breaking stories of Filipinos who work on cruise…

  • Link Party: 12/5-12/9

    Here’s what I’ve read lately: 1. These stories about Prince are incredible. 2. Rei Kawakubo and the impossible task of her Met retrospective. 3. Dinner with the guy who revolutionized the science of cooking. 4. If you live in California, you should know the names of these political leaders. 5. 2016 is the year of playing ourselves.…

  • Link Party: 9/26-9/30

    Here’s what I read last week: 1. The writer Michael Chabon took his son Abe to Paris for Men’s Fashion Week and wrote an outstanding article about it. 2. The entire latest issue of the California Sunday Magazine. My favorites: Kendrick Lamar’s five rules, a violin master, preserving the quietness places on Earth and the…

  • Link Party: 8/1-8/5

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. The life of paramedics in Laredo, Texas. 2. The future of American malls. 3. Harvard’s final clubs. 4. The miseducation of John Muir, America’s highly problematic fave. 5. The oral history of the lobster roll. And a bonus: Jenna Maroney from 30 Rock + Donald Trump = Donald…

  • Link Party: 3/14-3/25

    I spent an extra-long weekend in Seattle last week, so I didn’t have much time to read on the Internet / compile a roundup before I left on Thursday. That means that this week you get double the links, which also means double the partying. Here’s what I’ve read lately: 1. Kinfolk and the hipster aesthetic. 2.…