WRITING
POSY-FILLED POCKETS
Posy-Filled Pockets Was Meant To Be…And It Was Meant To Be Here
Whose Finger Do You Want On The Trigger?
ATLAS OBSCURA
Notes from the Field: The Abandoned Brothel of Secret Valley
Mars Bluff Crater – Florence, South Carolina
Notes from the Field: The 818 Meet-Up of Pinball Wizards
Phone Booth Graveyard – New York, New York
Monument of Bulgarian Soviet Friendship – Varna, Bulgaria
New Years at Hicksville Trailer Palace
PALEOFUTURE MAGAZINE, Issue 02
THOSE DAMN ENTHUSIASTS
“Wine enthusiasts the way toddlers are truck enthusiasts”
Do I want to write a wine blog? FUCK YEAH
Rachel James: Why I love wine
Fancy Pants 2013 Pinot Grigio Wine Review: Reporting from Luscious Lake Tahoe $8
Maryhill Columbia Valley, Pinot Grigio 2011 $4
“It’s a Headsnapper” 2014 Sauvignon Blanc – On Sale! $7.98
PLAYBOY MOBILE, TRAVEL
Don’t Expect Holiday Cheer At These Yuletide-Named Towns
American Horror Story: Beautiful Photos of U.S. Ghost Towns
How to Relive Columbus’s 1492 Expedition, Sans Plundering and Syphilis
A Taste Of the World’s Five Must-See Wineries and Cellars This Harvest Season
The Five Best Destinations That Can Help You Get Over Your Post-Labor Day Depression
From Eel to Thanksgivukkah: The Evolution of Thanksgiving Dinner
Pending: PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
“It only Hurt For a Second; MDMA as a Viable Treatment for PTSD”
SPEAKING, INTERVIEWS & EVENT PRODUCTION
OBSCURA SOCIETY, LOS ANGELES
Co-Producer, Field Trip Day 2012 & 2013, for Atlas Obscura & Niantic Lab
Co-Producer, Field Trip Day, 2012
Co-Producer, Field Trip Day 2013, Pasadena
Co-Producer, Obscura Day, Los Angeles, 2012
Event Lead, Holyland
Event Lead, Bunny Museum
DEATH SALON, SAN FRANCISCO 2014
Rachel James – Transcending the East vs. West Suicide Paradox: Netting the Bridge and Walling up the Volcano By comparing Mount Mihara and the Golden Gate Bridge, we’ll look at the conflicting ideologies surrounding suicide in Asia and the US, using these popular suicide locations and their prevention solutions in each locale as focal points to examine not only the opposing cultural attitudes, but how they are evolving from opposite sides of the philosophy spectrum and beginning to “meet in the middle” with concern and compassion.
ODD SALON, SAN FRANCISCO
Curations:
FAILURE
FAKE
GOLD, MURDER & SPIRITS
CHAOS
MADNESS
Selected Talks:
Engineering Disaster: The Best and Worst Ideas in Industrial Design (FAILURE)
Elymr De Hory: The Uncertainty of Authenticity (FAKE)
The Ship, the Psychic & the Ectoplasmic Seaman (SECRET)
Tale of Two Independence Days: WTF, Gold Country? (w/ Matt Osbourn)
Riot! Controlled Chaos of the Hive Mind (CHAOS)
Bones, Botulism & Bocce Ball: The Fickle Faces of an Accidental Sea (RUIN)
Infatuation with Flora: Making Nature Your Bitch (OBSESSION)
Mortality of Monsters: The Murders That changed Manchester (MONSTROUS)
SAN FRANCISCO TIME TRAVEL PROJECT AT THE CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2014
Hounds, Ducks & Vigilantes: The Gangs of San Francisco (California Historical Society)
MISC