lines of flight

Wrote about a great spot that Rowen has been telling me about for over a year, The Dragon Upstairs. The piece came out okay. But the place itself is very cool and a must-do in Honolulu, if you appreciate jazz even a little bit.

I submitted one more story to HI Luxury, and I’ve enjoyed working with them. The staff I’ve talked to seem like fun, intelligent people. Hopefully someone as sparkly-prosed, literate and in-the-know as myself ;~j takes the nightlife entertainment writer position and that door will close for me.

I’m also resigning quadmag.com, my pet project of the last ten years. I will always represent for that site, but I’m officially retired. (I’m living the dream! retire by 30 haha.) We’d love to see it keep going, but with TeN in San Francisco and Lance in Portland, it’s been hard to keep the momentum and these technical lumps are demoralizing. I’m just done.

The idea is to focus on projects I’m more passionate about, that improve my portfolio or pay me the big bucks. Or pay to me to travel–that would be sweet.

Once I almost had a job assisting a researcher on a trip to American Samoa. There were unseasonably early, torrential rains in AS, electricity and roads taken out, the trip got postponed. I got a jobby job soon after and rainy season went into full swing, so it didnt happen. It was probably for the better. The researcher was really cultured and accomplished and fun, but also I think alcoholic. It would have probably been weird “roughing it” in rural Samoa with this red-faced, middle-age bachelor. Sheeeit. Or maybe it was the trip of a lifetime and I MISSED IT.