Good Germans

This. Fucking. Election.

Contained

“There’s normal life,” my friend Grant said, “it’s like this glass. Everything is contained so we can get through our days. But grief… grief is a lake.”

Explaining Donald Trump to Your Foreign Friends and Family

I love living in a globalized society. It means economical Japanese auto engineering, Oscar winning Chilean animation, woolly Irish sweaters… so many other good things the connected world gives us are available right here in my little American liberal ghetto. It means I have friends from France and New Zealand and Canada who show up …


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I’m 52 Today, Ask Me Anything.

I’ve been taking very straight, first thing in the morning self-portraits on my birthday for a few years now. Here’s 52.

The Only 2016 Hot List You’ll Need Is This One

Buckle up, kids, we’re about to be awash in lists of things that are hot for 2016 and, conversely, list of things that are out. Like kale, apparently kale is out, as is bashing millennials, and worrying about being fat. Worrying about being fat is SO LAST YEAR, friends, as is the Konmari method, hating …


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