Autos

  • Repo and Retro

    We don’t want the former, and wish to collect the latter. In our age of mass production, supplysiders push consumption to the  point of writing up bad loans, hence Repo. Then, and this happened to me once, products came out of the assembly line all look alike: I once mistakenly opened an identical rental car…

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  • Saigon upgrade

    In 2000, I was sitting at Cadillac, a semi-enclosed bar, whose band played Hotel California and I Will Survive. In 2010, I found myself at Rolls Royce, which also played Hotel California and I Will Survive. 2013, at Van’s Cafe, its band plays Bon Jovi’s number lacing with Santana’s classics. Nouveaux riches, yetl good oldies. The expats…

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