Enter the Dragon 🐲
Hello friends,
It’s been too quiet here lately… time to fix that!
2024 is the lunar new year of the wood dragon, fire-breather of creativity, power, and charisma.
This year, fortune favors the bold. Bonus: an extra 24 hours this February (once every four years) to tip fortune in our favor.
Let the festivities begin! 🧧🐉
WHAT I’VE BEEN UP TO
Getting life advice at work from one of RuPaul’s drag queens, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Eureka! 👑
READING
Joined a packed Neuhouse to witness Bonnie Wang’s powerful vulnerability in her book reading for The Life Brief. Serendipitous NYC moment: joined her and @adcolor friends at The Tyger for late night singaporean chili crab fried rice, pandan cocktails, and a new life mantra for 2024:
YOU ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED.
WATCHING
✈️ Hijack. (A+) Idris Elba electrifies in this thriller that keeps you spellbound across all seven episodes in the series, taking an expected story and twisting it on its head. Apple TV+
🦉Killers of the Flower Moon (B-) Respect to Lily Gladstone for an Oscar-worthy performance, and to the writer, for surfacing truths buried in the Oklahoma Osage murders, but Scorcese’s relentless focus on violence feels more dehumanizing than empathetic. Apple TV+
🕹 Joyride (B+) If Bridesmaids were Asian-American, raunchier, and razor-sharp about identity and assimilation. so unhinged = snort laughs! Starz
FROM THE MIXTAPE
🐇 🕳 Los Bitchos: all women, no words. Trip down this rabbit hole of neo psychedelic world groove.
DOPE STUFF FOR YOUR DESK
From the Retro Future Nostalgia Department:
Clicks, a quirky QWERTY keyboard case that turns your iPhone… into a Blackberry. Snagged the Founder’s Edition bumblebee case to get bizzy writing more this year. 🐝
GOOD DECK
The Bimbo Renaissance, another zeitgeisty cultural critique from @jaymesey (alum, @nonfictionresearch + @joan_agency), in her trademark hypermaximalist style:
WHERE YOU’LL FIND ME
Sharing my sage millennial perspective in this South Carolina Honors College alumni profile, 20 years in the making: The Strategist. I’m not perfect, but I’ve come a long way and still putting in the work. 🎓 🧰 🚧
To all of us works-in-progress,
✌🏽