Christopher Chang
May 10, 2022 BY
@christopher-chang👨🏻💼
When I have a friend coming into town for a birthday, work, or some family trip, a thing I love to do is to leave a little gift with the hotel concierge to leave in their room prior to their arrival. Flowers, a bottle of bubbles, a joint, a small tchotchke…anything, really. Just something small that says welcome home. It’s not very much effort for a really big payoff because it’s thoughtful, and what’s better than being thoughtful?
May 10, 2022
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Bonnie Raitt is a crucial figure in the great American songbook, and outside the music, she’s just so cool: She’s a daughter of Burbank, she’s got the stripe of white hair against the red, the big old double pickguard Guild, she plays slide on a Strat, Stevie Ray Vaughan inspired her to get clean…I could go on for days. I always joke that I’m Bonnie Raitt’s premier Korean superfan, and until someone can dispute this, I’m claiming the title. The song itself is a two and a half minute tearjerker that you listen to alone, and when you get to the bridge, you mutter “Oh, don’t hurt ‘em, Bonnie!” to yourself.
May 10, 2022
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Bad Dog is a love letter to Los Angeles. While LA is pretty segregated based on race and socio-economics, each neighborhood is within driving distance of each other, so eventually the subcultures of each marry one another in some beautiful mess. Zoë, the brains behind Bad Dog, is a pretty good anthropomorphic model of this subculture stew, I think, and she isn’t afraid of sentiment or being a fan, which is what makes Bad Dog so special. BAD DOG FOREVER!!!
May 10, 2022
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I’ve got all sorts of stuff in my eBay saved searches and if I’m patient, I can usually get exactly what I want at a pretty good price. A fun story I have related to saved searches is that awhile ago, a friend’s apartment was burgled, and very specific pieces of heirloom jewelry were taken. I saved some keywords and forgot all about it. A few months later, I got an alert and saw a piece that looked vaguely familiar, so I checked the seller’s items and realized they had EVERYTHING! I emailed my friend, and she ended up retrieving all of her jewelry. It was so nice to be part of a happy ending where I was crucial, but didn’t really do anything.
May 10, 2022
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I don’t know if Sweet Charity is actually a good movie, but I know that Shirley Maclaine whips ass, and I know that I like it, so I’m recommending it. It’s the first movie Bob Fosse directed, and I think you see him leaving behind “show business” Bob Fosse, and coming into sticky, pill-fiend, All That Jazz Bob Fosse. The first time I watched it, I thought it so electric I actually muttered “what a picture!” aloud to myself…What a picture!
May 10, 2022