Field report · AUG 12
WHAT THE FUCK DID I BUY?
Nine impulse purchases, opened on camera, ranked by how long the feeling lasted.
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Issue 04
THE JOURNAL
Long reads and short confessions. Some of it is a serious argument about design. Some of it is me opening a box I should not have bought.
Design · AUG 09
The Case for Ugly Furniture
Why the pieces nobody wants age better than the ones everybody photographs — a serious argument about proportion, patina and courage.
read · 9 min →
MORE FROM THE ARCHIVE
Process · AUG 02
Rebuilding a 1974 Vanity, Badly, Then Correctly
Three weekends, one respirator, and everything I got wrong about stripping veneer before I got it right.
12 min read →
Internet · JUL 28
The Forum That Never Closed
A message board from 2003 is still online, still moderated, and still arguing about the same lamp. I read all 4,000 pages.
11 min read →
Style · JUL 21
Dressing for a Room Nobody Enters
On private taste, mirror discipline, and the outfits that exist entirely for one audience.
7 min read →
Essay · JUL 14
A Taxonomy of Regret
Six categories of bad decision, sorted from useful to genuinely expensive.
8 min read →