That time I almost got killed – the Reader’s Digest version
“Never Run, Because Then You’re Prey”: How I Walked Away from an Assault Unharmed
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I Work in Chaos: The Art of Lou Beach
I’m up on Cover Our Tracks with our last post of 2017. I got to interview the amazing Lou Beach, the collagist responsible for some of my favorite album covers, including the American debut from Yellow Magic Orchestra. Titling my pieces isn’t always my strong point, but this time the title jumped out at me. …
Global design neighborhoods
While updating my clips I found this old but still awesome guide to design neighborhoods around the world that I contributed to for Metropolis Magazine. Enjoy!
Wine and Climate Change
The Little Blue Marble has its first feature-length reported piece and it was written by me! You can read it here. This was an interesting piece to do and it made me think a lot about political polarization — oddly enough — as well as bias in the media. In this age of Twitter and …
I’m up on Common Edge today
If you’d like to read my essay about the strange wonderland I entered when I accidentally searched Greenwich real estate listings with the price-range parameters turned off, please click here to go to Common Edge Collaborative!
Custom guitar picks
I need new business cards for like a year now, and I am definitely going to get on top of that today, because I am SUPER organized and have my priorities straight ALWAYS. But meanwhile a friend told me about Build A Pick, where you can upload your own design and text and get it …
Life Wisdom
Homework-for-Parents is one of my pet peeves. To be honest, I tend to phone it in — if I remember to do it at all. Therefore, I am both surprised and impressed with my last-year self for evidently taking this Life Wisdom assignment so seriously– and I’m blown away by what I wrote! I just …
For Talk Talk fans only
Go here to find my latest contribution to the fabulous album cover website Cover Our Tracks (founded by my BFF, the noted and underrated cultural critic Loring Kemp). At Loring’s behest I interviewed James Marsh, who is a wonderfully thoughtful artist and an inspired and inspiring storyteller. It was one of those interviews where the …
I’m up today on Cover Our Tracks
Go here to check out my interview with legendary illustrator Bob Pepper, up today on a great new blog courtesy of Loring Kemp. Cover Our Tracks is about album covers, mostly — but nothing about album covers is only about album covers… know what I mean?
When was the first time you got paid for your writing?
Someone asked on Quora: When was the first time you got paid for your writing? How much did you make? Here’s my story: When I was in graduate school I was also working at a coffee shop, because I was broke (never go to graduate school unless they want you enough to pay you, by …