Secrets...are the very root of cool.

That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.