The restaurant business is largely about ego. As a venue or chef builds an identity, egos become inordinately inflated. The maintenance of an ego requires…
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Kobayashi Maru on Wry
Published April 9, 2013 by Kevin
I want to pick up the thought I left at the end of the previous entry. The idea that I appeared as my own ‘deus…
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Published March 29, 2013 by Kevin
There are these moments of realization. Some come swiftly: Sitting in your hermitage above Mendocino, staring at the Pacific arc, vision folds in upon itself…
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Published March 22, 2013 by Kevin
In the past few weeks, I effected—and was affected by—a coup d’etat. I was both the usurper and the usurped. I survived victoriously. I want…
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Published October 15, 2010 by Kevin
This entry first appeared at Crazy Sexy Life, Oct. 15, 2010 (http://crazysexylife.com/2010/how-love-leads-to-purpose) In an increasingly-obscure song by the Small Faces, circa 1968, a man follows…
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