Brooklyn - Fairbanks - Tokyo - Cologne - Salisbury
- A visual medium.
Would most physicians describe the body as ‘hardy’ or ‘delicate’?
Surgeons? Endocrinologists? Cardiologists? Neurologists?
Chefs? Skateboarders? Junkies? Cyclists?
Agoraphobes?
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Nuggets. Swedish Tastemakers, looking inwards, and referencing themselves. An epoch of MGMT; the idea that writers should be more judicious with the terms ‘epoch’, ‘era’, and ‘eon’. The almost-sepia, often kaleidoscopic edges of Lomo photographs. Rick McCrank and John Rattray. Tailblocks, Pivot-Fakies, and Nosepicks. Sincerely enjoying African drumming when you hear it, then completely forgetting about it, until the next time you hear […]
- Sanguine, Choleric, Phlegmatic, and Melancholic.
Sometimes the things that you can’t imagine your life without, like coffee, Â are trivial.Can anyone direct me to the source of the ’starting fresh’ school of philosophy? Â Is it Judeo-Christian, or in more modern terms, “Western”? Â The irony is that it’s not possible - whether evidence exists, much less a written history or not, events […]
- I was at my happiest:
Drawing in my grandmother’s studio, sucking on a coffee cordial, listening to classical on NPR, aged 7.
Sharing headphones with a twenty two year old mailman from Bath, taking a bus from Bilbao to San Sebastian.
(Later, climbing over the groynes in San Sebastien like children.)
In the arms of someone who loves me.
In my mother’s kitchen, cooking […]
- A day in the life of a Zombie.
My memory has never been the best. Â Faces, names, situations, all escape me with time. Â Numbers and trivia survive a little better. Â When I do look back on the past, certain events act as road markers, Â making a clearer path. Â It’s the changes that stand out. I’ve been back in New York about 2 and […]
- Secret Wine Project Update… (03/19)
So those of you that are privy to what I’ve been working on lately (it deals with wine), here’s the news. Â It’s going well. Â I met with the owner today and it went well. Â Really well. Â My friend, Minami, went along with me - I needed some moral support and honestly, I didn’t know […]
- Wheat Woes - Required Reading.
A Global Need for Grain that Farms Can’t Fill (From the New York Times)It was Oil (with a capital ‘O’, these days), then it was specifically jet fuel,  then it was Global Warming (definitely capitalized - thanks, Al!), then it was corn, then it was water,  then it was bees (Colony Collapse Disorder); now it’s wheat […]
- Misreading the winelist.
Everyone has their war stories, and here are two of mine…
It was a quiet afternoon at Tabla, where I used to work. Â Maybe 3 or 4 o’clock - right about the time of day where restaurants start preparing for dinner service. Â This can be the most hectic part of the day, aside from the 8 […]
- Terry Theise Catalogs, etc.
For a while, Dungeons & Dragons was my fixation, as were (at different, often overlapping times) German board games, Tintin comics, Hitchcock flicks, Greek and Roman mythology, Tokyo ramen stalls, The Smiths and noise bands. Â I still love all of these things, but at certain points they were all I could think about. Â These days […]
