April 2013
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Elizabeth Wurtzel is depressing →
It had all gone wrong. At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24. Stubbornly and proudly, emphatically and pathetically, I had refused to grow up, and so I was becoming one of those people who refuses to grow up—one of the city’s Lost Boys. I was still subletting in Greenwich Village, instead of...
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March 2013
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“You never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
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February 2013
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Rebecca Solnit on the changing character of San... →
Emphasis and abridgment are mine. The full article is kind of lengthy, but an absolutely worthwhile read. I’m three quarters terrified and one quarter fascinated to watch San Francisco morph like this.
[…] I weathered the dot-com boom of the late 1990s as an observer, but I sold my apartment to a Google engineer last year and ventured out into both the rental market (for the short...
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January 2013
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Why tumblr is killing personal style →
(I’m kind of in agreement, and come on, I like both tumblr and menswear!)
Style used to mean more than just reblogs. If a guy wants to learn how to dress himself today, he only needs to consult one of many men’s style sites or Internet style fora to learn the basics: fit is paramount, buy better but less, and have some sort of grooming regimen. That type of easily adaptable formula...
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