MILWAUKEE — I am broadcasting to you from Room 614 of a mid-tier hotel on Wisconsin Avenue, where the blackout curtains do not black out, the ice machine down the hall hums with the same relentless, mechanical dread I once felt in Beijing, and the Wi-Fi requires a room number that this establishment has apparently decided I do not have. Tonight, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. But tonight, it is about directions.
Wisconsin has filed a formal complaint with the United Nations Special Committee on Geographical Grievances, alleging that the State of Illinois has engaged in what Milwaukee's delegation described as "the aggressive and unprovoked use of the term 'Up
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What Ever Happened to People Minding Their Own Business?
I was sitting at my desk this morning — third coffee, first cigarette, zero patience — when I watched a woman on the sidewalk outside spend eleven minutes filming herself walking into a CVS. Not walking out. Not finding a deal, not confronting a shoplifter, not discovering a new species of pharmacy beetle. Just walking in. The automatic doors opened. She walked in. The end. Eleven minutes of footage, three different angles, a voiceover about "embracing the journey of
...I am writing this from a hotel room in Manhattan that I am pretty sure is in Manhattan, though the mini-bar prices suggest I may have accidentally crossed into Zurich. Meadow flew me here last week on what I can only describe as a mission from God — or, more accurately, a mission from Meadow, which is like God but with more nicotine
...I am sitting in my leather wingback chair. Marmaduke — one hundred and forty pounds of constitutionally-minded Alaskan husky — is sprawled across my feet, which are going numb, but I refuse to move him because I need the ballast. I also cannot feel my left foot. These facts are related. What I am about to tell you will unsettle you. It will
...I am going to be honest with you — a thing I rarely do, and never for free — and tell you that I have been awake for approximately thirty-one hours. I came to this screening directly from a press breakfast at which the coffee was lukewarm and the croissants were, I can only assume, assembled by someone who had once seen the word "croissant"
...By Brock Castellanos III, Founder & Chief Vibes Officer, NepoCorp Ventures
I am writing this from the rooftop of my Brickell penthouse. I am wearing a Loro Piana cashmere hoodie that costs more than your car. My personal chef Marcelo is plating a single soft-boiled quail egg on a slab of imported Himalayan salt. Marcelo
...by Bradley Snipes
Okay. So. Let me explain.
You know how sometimes you lose your passport in a foreign country and it becomes a situation with a laminated timeline? And then you come home and you think, great, I'm safe, I'm on American soil, nothing else can go wrong? And then you try to fly to New
...The hostess at Vessel wears all black and speaks in a register normally reserved for the reading of wills. She leads you through a corridor where the walls are raw concrete poured in deliberate, expensive imperfection, past a shelf holding a single ceramic vessel — the vessel, presumably, the restaurant's one honest gesture toward its own name
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