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the right bag for the job

I was looking for a gym bag recently but realized really any bag could be a gym bag if you put a smaller dry bag inside it to hold your sweaty gear. I liked finding a solution with things I already had. But the main bag started to fall apart and I didn't have another large enough. So I started looking for something new again. I found this guy. It's got large exterior pockets that can hold my trainers. Small interior pockets to hold toiletries, headphones, jump rope, etc. And a big roomy main compartment for tossing in gym clothes and a dry bag. It's also like my ideal tote bag? It's got a hand hold, you can shoulder it, but you can also sling it if you need too by lengthening the strap. This thing is so versatile!

@lucius

Feb 13, 2025

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musings on bags

Saw this question pop up in the morning and have spent the rest of the day thinking about bags. Turns out I’m harboring a lot of opinions on them. Like flora I agree that you need one in each size (s/m/l). Additionally as a person who treats my clothes and accessories like trash it’s imperative I have a bag that isn’t precious but looks chic. Which is why I always go with a medium sized leather bucket bag in a fun or neutral color. I go through one every 5 years. In college I had my mom’s 70s Dooney and Bourke, when I moved to New York I treated myself to a Creatures of Comfort (RIP) and recently I scored an OAD bag (also maybe RIP?) off The Real Real. Bucket bags fit everything, but don’t look like you’re schlepping your whole life in there. I also like going bagless and using just a Petit Pli mini pocket that I wear around my neck. There’s enough room to tuck a card and a key in too. On the XL size I love my Baggu cloud bag. It’s the absolute goat for travel because it also is collapsable!

@tateako

Mar 8, 2024

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A good weekender bag

A good duffel. a good duffel!! always feel like a chump dragging around a mini suitcase. Idk why but it’s just how it is. I got mine from Rains on sale and it has changed me forever. I recommend one with little pockets, handles, a strap for the shoulder, all of it. Spontaneity follows!

@evie

Mar 20, 2024

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Frank Heath

Part How To with John Wilson, Part Channel 5, part Longmont Potion Castle…I got introduced to the work of Frank Heath last year by my much smarter friend Noa Ryan so I’ll just let her speak on it:“There’s a sad, funny comfort in Frank Heath’s multimedia work, which is generally about humanity, bureaucracy, and the end of the world (and the “end of the world”). It’s equal parts playful and careful, joining research, make-believe and aesthetic acuity in what end up feeling like gestures of tenderness towards the tragicomedy of human affairs and longings. If you are looking for cynicism you won’t find it here, but you might end up liking the alternative :)”PS: If you have a link for Crypts of Civilization or Last Will and Testament hit my line.

@shyan

Aug 17, 2021

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LA Taco

The legacy of Jonathan Gold lives on at LA Taco. There is no better place to understand Los Angeles than this bastion of independent food journalism helmed by Javier Cabral. Soul bound with city, this is the source code. If you’ve recently moved there, read LA Taco. There is no other alternative. A champion for the city’s street vendors and the food they make -  there’s real heart in the writing, real fire. Come for the food guides, stay for the local policy coverage. Love Los Angeles? Buy a membership and support street-level, groundbreaking journalism. Honor the taco.

@shyan

Aug 17, 2021

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Living & Eating - John Pawson, and Annie Bell

It’s hard for me to earnestly recommend a cookbook this expensive (It’s out of print!), but Pawson’s first book, a rec of a rec via the New Yorker’s Helen Rosner, is singularly outstanding. Yes, yes...A cookbook from an Englishman? The thing is, it’s decidedly un-British, continental in all the best ways, modern in its disposition, and prescient in it’s cookbook design. As a very goofy dude, operating a very unsexy business, Pawson’s work is a godsend. He approaches food in a holistic way - less so a manifesto, more so a journey through his mind. First, the kitchen from its bones - counterspace, appliances, hobs, things of that nature. He is an architect after all. The ideal oven size? At least 900mm by the way. Alongside the 200+ recipes in the book you’ll find some real elite food writing provided by Annie Bell. Brilliant and beautiful prose that you shouldn’t gloss over. Pawson recently released his second cookbook earlier this year titled Home Farm Cooking. I haven’t read it, but I reckon you should buy that instead. Don’t shell out hundreds of dollars on a cookbook unless you’re a collector or got money to burn. Live well.

@shyan

Aug 17, 2021