text

Public service announcement (phone down day)

May 8, 2024

Due to apocalypse, we exist in a moment of capacity collapse, where we have consciously chosen for it to be “hard” to hang out for more than 90 calendar...

---

You think a clover infestation is trivial, but that’s where you’d be wrong

May 6, 2024

You have a problem. The ceiling is leaking. Clover has taken over your garden. Part of your roof collapsed. You seek help. This is easy, you think. There is...

---

You have a face

May 2, 2024

A video went viral recently, god help us, because a woman went over to a man’s place and could not believe he has a good skincare routine. He must be...

---

A reminder: hugs are free

April 30, 2024

Upfront PSA: The number of you who corrected me that asparagus is not a cruciferous brassica can only be measured in scientific notation. Sorry about that;...

---

Pilsner pack (nothing to hide)

April 26, 2024

Beer is an imperfect thing that requires controlling nature in defiance of god in order to make many versions of a thing consistently & well. Faults happen....

---

Green leafy stick text

April 24, 2024

We have referred, briefly, to asparagus before, but we haven’t really gone deep on it. You know that you should only be eating it when it’s in season in your...

---

The marker

April 22, 2024

The problem is that the markers are very good. They are probably accurate on a level that would impress Pantone. Really the best antecedent is Pantone: you...

---

Vetiver text

April 18, 2024

I went to an art fair this past weekend and brought a fragrance nerd, and the entire time she validated what I had always suspected: the high-end art world...

---

Bags in bags in bags

April 16, 2024

We’re back on our nonsense over here, which is to say that we are traveling. I traveled too much at the beginning of 2023 and spent most of the rest of the...

---

Non-text text

April 12, 2024

Some brief links that sum up a lot of what text is about. On fast fashion This piece on Shein doesn’t convey much about the mindset of thoughtful consumption...

---

Kati craft

April 10, 2024

We have talked a lot about craft as applies to clothes over the past year. There are people who work in small ways, forming direct relationships with their...

---

Air bag

April 8, 2024

I get on a fair number of airplanes, unfortunately, because the whole point of doing so is not the flying but the getting there. No sane person likes the act...

---

We bought a company and then nothing happened

April 4, 2024

Both of my main pens are made by Lamy, which until recently was family-run for three generations. Now it is owned by a giant conglomerate, and I am...

---

Right leaf, right time

April 2, 2024

Camellia sinensis is basically a small tree. Like every tree, it grows leaves in the spring. As those leaves mature, they get larger (duh) and hardier (also...

---

Perth text

March 29, 2024

They’re from Perth, but what else is even in Perth? You hear Perth and think of some sort of mirage. Unlike other Australian cities, Perth is never...

---

Flip, click, repeat

March 27, 2024

It tears through the problem space of ecommerce like it is a supplement company dressed as a hypebeast drop. It is neither. They sell fidget toys. Fidget...

---

Fun fact: a group of designers is called a “disagreement”

March 25, 2024

You’ve heard of the concept of a fun fact. Water swirls the other way in the southern hemisphere. A quarter pounder with cheese is called a “royale with...

---

Out front

March 21, 2024

I recently read a thing about Phoebe Philo, who built a minor cult following at two fashion houses in the aughts in rapid succession, retired, un-retired,...

---

Text text

March 20, 2024

Sometimes I forget that I do things that track, on face, to be completely unhinged. Like the bookmarks file.

---

Find 12, ditch 10, buy multiples of 2

March 18, 2024

This always happens. You get into this period of transformation and try a lot of stuff out. Some of it works. A lot of it doesn’t. You’re picky. You stick...

---