Lee Moses! I am constantly on the search for Lee Moses on vinyl and always come up empty.

The best aesthetic.

Fun fact, cumin is used in perfumery to simulate the smell of sex because it smells so much like male sweat.

Why does he look like the offspring of Ernest and the Trivago man?

That’s certainly the idea (though I don’t know that the public has seen the policies). The $5B overrun for Tokyo is also just straightforwardly less likely for LA, given the existing infrastructure and mitigation measures the report describes. Nothing’s ever really risk-free, but the City seems to be taking all the…

I think that cities have to sign on to Basic Principle No. 4 in their agreement with the IOC. However, the separate agreement between LA2024 and the City of LA allocates the risk of overruns heavily to LA2024. The LAO report shows risk mitigation in the form of a set-aside fund of $567M and unprecedented insurance…

The LA plan uses no public money and includes indemnification of the City in the event the City does end up having to spend public money.

Just to be fair: getting the Olympics (either in 2024 or 2028) won’t change that. It might change bus routes in that neighborhood. But the bid is definitely motivating the Board of Supervisors to give Metro more decision-making power and political support for the Crenshaw and Purple lines.

I’m an Angeleno, and while I definitely agree that Casey Wasserman doesn’t need puff profiles, and it’s clear that a large part of the institutional support for an LA Olympics is because of the media/advertising opportunities it offers to LA’s media-industrial complex, I think people overlook some of the benefits the…

Jesus Christ.

Agreed. For a man who I guarantee is obsessed with Golden Mean, that’s a terrible window-to-wall ratio

Yes! I’ve been limiting my fashion purchases in 2017 to brands with traceable/generally good supply chains and Project Just has helped a lot. Here’s a general list of sources I’ve found, for anyone who might need it:

“You Only Live Twice” is the only Bond song good enough for a season-finale fade-out on Mad Men AND a terrible Robbie Williams sample, making it the clear winner.

I can’t tell if this is the least HamNo post I’ve ever read or the most HamNo post I’ve ever read.

Odds of Bruce Springsteen sending a “cease and desist”?

Lisa Eldridge is a hero. My hippie, same-tube-of-Maybelline-Great-Lash-for-ten-years mother had many things to teach me, but make-up was not one of them. Lisa Eldridge is how I caught up to (and dare I say surpassed?) my peers.

You can get a really nice, better-quality bag from smaller, more craft-driven indie designers (plus, you get bonus cool points for being non-basic). Steven Alan has great bags (the Camilla is a favorite of mine), then there’s Rachel Comey, Mansur Gavriel, Dries Van Noten. Check out Totokaelo, Building Block, LoTuff or…

Solid choices! I don’t know how Kinja Deals works, exactly, but it’d be great to see more fair-trade/artist-made stores (like Uncommon Goods kind of is, or something in the Accompany or the Of a Kind models) to be thrown into the mix.

Solid choices! I don’t know how Kinja Deals works, exactly, but it’d be great to see more fair-trade/artist-made…

Maybe we could keep the castle and the shots of his back in the tank. Dunno — like George Lucas should have years ago, I put the work of actually executing my ideas in the hands of those far more talented than me

I loved Rogue One, but I can’t wait for someone to cut together a version of it that deletes that “choke on your ambition” scene and makes the goddamn swinging lightsaber scene the first time we see Vader.