Published insaigongarcon·Pinnedportrait of a barista, desiredUnobtainable desire haunts me everyday.Woody Allen5 min readWoody Allen5 min read
May 19view from my windowmon kim —arcade seoul City buildings. Chrome. Muscular male bodies. Side by side. We’ve seen it all before, but Mon Kim has a particular and consistent aesthetic that continues to surpass his former work with chic sex appeal that captures the very character of gay masc class in Seoul.Mon Kim3 min readMon Kim3 min read
May 17lol you’re not sexy— because you don’t read The Paris Review You never wanted friends, he said, sharply, and then he closed the door of the fridge and he squeezed my arm, the fat underside bit. — Same, Same by Elaine FeeneyThe Paris Review6 min readThe Paris Review6 min read
Dec 29, 2022san francisco,a love letter of many. I was better last night. Some autumns ago in a Chinatown apartment, pinning roaches to death with the end of a plastic broom. Or maybe somewhere in the Outer Richmond with the last hours of light in the day, pressed against my mold-ridden basement apartment…San Francisco4 min readSan Francisco4 min read
Nov 22, 2022aftersunlove-live-tweeting the film without timestamps. feelings in consecutive order: There’s a reason why we pull our phones sees sunsets and sunrises before our own eyes do. An incredible opening where we are asked what we thought we’d be doing from the vantage point of 11 years old. Do you even…Aftersun4 min readAftersun4 min read
Nov 9, 2022ITAEWON –and all the unbearable guilt. Itaewon The Sunday after, the alarm in my phone rung a heaviness that shifted all its aching into my hand. I texted everyone I knew, lives I was unsure were there or not. We take it for granted, this thing called living. Health, too. We…Itaewon Halloween6 min readItaewon Halloween6 min read
Aug 21, 2022on keeping a writing contract —scrap it, leave it, be a body be a verb. Whenever I see an article about a writing contract, I say, scrap a contract. A contract means all business and writing cannot be a business. It is an art. It is a means to bridging yourself to the world. Every…Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
Aug 4, 2022so i ate shrooms —speech act, killing teens, all about lily chou chou, los angeles i love you. As a teenager, a fantasy always appeared at the front steps of my heartache: a Volkswagen Mk1 GTI slowly pulling into my driveway so that a soft white light would seep through the blinds and flood…LGBTQ8 min readLGBTQ8 min read
Jun 23, 2022writing on writingall the ways i look back — As Lapvona hits bookstore shelves, I can’t help but wonder: Whatever happened to that one Moshfegh book that came before? The one with the least amount of traction. The one that most people disliked? The one forgotten. “Her name was Magda. Nobody will…Otessa Moshfegh6 min readOtessa Moshfegh6 min read
May 9, 2022why you should be watching pachinko.when was the last time you experienced art that transcended enjoyment and overwhelmed you with its power? Rice. The way steam rises from it like afternoon rain on a baked sidewalk, when it comes out in a metal tin bowl, hat and all, hot to the touch. Most Korean restaurants…Pachinko4 min readPachinko4 min read
