MILWAUKEE — I am broadcasting to you from Room 614 of a mid-tier hotel on Wisconsin Avenue, where the blackout curtains do not black out, the ice machine down the hall hums with the same relentless, mechanical dread I once felt in Beijing, and the Wi-Fi requires a room number that this establishment has apparently decided I do not have. Tonight, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. But tonight, it is about directions.
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I am writing this from a hotel room in Manhattan that I am pretty sure is in Manhattan, though the mini-bar prices suggest I may have accidentally crossed into Zurich. Meadow flew me here last week on what I can only describe as a mission from God — or, more accurately, a mission from Meadow, which is like God but with more nicotine and anxiety. He got me a Third Mezzanine ticket to the 79th Annual Tony Awards, told me not to lose it, and then immediately asked if I still had
...I am sitting in my leather wingback chair. Marmaduke — one hundred and forty pounds of constitutionally-minded Alaskan husky — is sprawled across my feet, which are going numb, but I refuse to move him because I need the ballast. I also cannot feel my left foot. These facts are related. What I am about to tell you will unsettle you. It will
...I am going to be honest with you — a thing I rarely do, and never for free — and tell you that I have been awake for approximately thirty-one hours. I came to this screening directly from a press breakfast at which the coffee was lukewarm and the croissants were, I can only assume, assembled by someone who had once seen the word "croissant"
...By Brock Castellanos III, Founder & Chief Vibes Officer, NepoCorp Ventures
I am writing this from the rooftop of my Brickell penthouse. I am wearing a Loro Piana cashmere hoodie that costs more than your car. My personal chef Marcelo is plating a single soft-boiled quail egg on a slab of imported Himalayan salt. Marcelo
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