Manhattan is made of garbage. Part of it, at least. A lot of people don’t realize this, but in the Seventies, the city pushed a bunch of landfill from the …
Read More →Note: this essay is lightly adapted from a recent DINFONTAY e-newsletter. Sign up here. Yesterday was my last day at Thrillist. I’ve been working there for the better part of the past decade. …
Read More →Note: this essay originally appeared in the DINFONTAY e-newsletter. Sign up here. The thing about working really hard on something is that time passes. I remember the minor-league ballgame in Rochester as though …
Read More →If you’re reading this, you already know: I won a James Beard Foundation Award! So you’re probably looking for more specifics. Fair! I was nominated for a JBF Award in …
Read More →Italian cocktails don’t get a lot of play in non-mixology circles. Hell, besides the Negroni, I’d never really given the category much thought. It’s all tinted liqueurs and goofy stemmed glasses, just …
Read More →I’m launching a zine called Uncle Dad. I don’t know what such a project requires just yet, but I do know that it means I’ll need contributors. That’s where you (maybe) come in. I’m looking …
Read More →A lot of people seem to want my stickers. Here’s the best way to get them. I make my stickers through a website called StickerMule. They’re easy to use and tremendously helpful at …
Read More →MONDAY IS A BAD DAY. You know this. I know this. We know this. I forget precisely when I began expressing this weekly misery by taking photographs of abandoned strollers, rotting bananas, spilled coffees, et …
Read More →THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE BETTER AT WRITING THAN I AM. In an effort to suss out what, in particular, makes them superior, I try to read as much …
Read More →2015 WAS A BIG YEAR BEHIND THE KEYBOARD FOR UNCLE DAD. After spending most of 2014 accepting freelance work from anyone who came calling, I was able to get a bit …
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