the great darkening has arrived. read my convo with Sam Bloch about his new book Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social and let us all get shade-pilled 🚫🌴 lareviewofbooks.org/article/its-...

new substack post on a little songbird, greenwashing the good things out of our lives, the police state pc: Jabz Gallo (a new friend and founding member of Save the Vireo justacity.substack.com/p/migratory-...

this made me cry. rios i was not familiar with your game

new substack post about @ LA Scanner, who many of us relied on for realtime updates during our January wildfires. this is about "cop watchers" who deputize themselves as lone heroes i enjoyed writing this one. this is the kind of LA stuff ill keep posting justacity.substack.com/p/a-scanner-...

i made a substack to chip away at what LA is/isn't + share occasional cultural commentary. my first post is about the Hongdae Boys, made viral in April. Leave Hongdae Boys alone/i wish people would worry on understanding their own desires/ur being racist justacity.substack.com/p/to-all-the...

doing my best

today marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. I interviewed poet @cathylinhche.bsky.social about her new book of poetry reflecting on her parents’ work as extras on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and American myth-making of the war impulsemagazine.com/symposium/be...

I’m always interested in work that situates big-time sports in our larger culture. This seems pretty deft.

things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻

things at occidental escalated violently after today’s inauguration of their president. I reported about the creeping increase in surveillance and policing that SJP was experiencing leading up to today. also hay fever was kicking my ass while reporting this under one of their large oak trees 👇🏻

After one of the WILDEST council exchanges in recent memory, with councilmembers accusing each other of making backroom deals (!!!), LA's Olympic wage passes 12-3, guaranteeing LA's tourism workers a minimum wage increase to $30/hour by 2028 My previous story: www.torched.la/the-olympic-...

writing

pls read my interview with artist Astria Suparak on the role of sports in upholding empires. her exhibition at the Walker Center showed an important breadth of cinematic and experimental work that offers a counternarrative to sports as wholesale celebration www.thepolisproject.com/read/astria-...

it be two girls at happy hour going “i can’t cry, i intellectualize my grief”

when an editor says i came back with strong reporting + writing... im better than you

waist deep in pow!! surfs up in mammoth

i love being inaccessible

she’s writing about ktown again..a return to form 🤷🏻‍♀️ my essay on sickly housing concept art for cusper magazine open.substack.com/pub/cusperma...

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i am struggling to find a home for a piece I’d like to write about the psychic damage Koreans have endured ten years after Seth Rogen’s The Interview came out. that film cycle needs a proper critical reappraisal but I don’t think people care to hear how much Obama is at fault for Korean relations!!!

i will not gatekeep but you will have to ask me where it’s from

in a first, cried while interviewing someone today. if you tenderly show me a picture of your late wife and tell me how much you miss her, bye 😭 Im a writer second, Aries first

you may be an LA cultural icon and creative shapeshifter but in the end we are all the same, made of flesh and bones, that a dog just wants to cuddle up on

im so thrilled that i reached out to hanif abdurraqib to talk (so tenderly!) about his wild sneaker collection because the world needs to know also, chris paul WOULD make a great poet youtu.be/bNyskgDYYRc?...

sorry to my friends mel, carol, jazz for blowing up the spot you used to grow up frequenting, but a legend is a legend read my latest on Pasadena's Top Restaurant (YES, THAT IS THE NAME) for Eater LA la.eater.com/2024/2/23/24...

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