Wandering
Using Intuition to Explore Territory
Wandering is Good For You v2 This post was originally known as Wandering is Good for You For 99% of human history, in the time before agriculture, wandering was a core behavior loop that we used to explore, understand, and influence the world around us. But in the last few
by Dan Flag, Nov 24, 2024
In Offenburg, Germany, waiting for a night train to Prague. Typing in a charmless bar, surrounded by old men silently watching soccer news out of one eye, and the bar maid out the other. Chris Isaak's Wicked Game is on the sound system. A guy with his belly
by Dan Flag, Oct 22, 2024
This is a story about an idiot, a piece of shit, and looong spoons. Yesterday after taking a nice coffee and croissant with my friend Nick, we rounded the corner back onto the high street Kurfürstendamm, which is filled with fancy clothes and self-care shops. I saw him coming. An
by Dan Flag, Oct 18, 2024
In Berlin. These motherfuckers don’t jaywalk. But they do have crows. And great, if sometimes cheesy graffiti. And beautiful buildings of disparate ages, with little paths wending between them. Magnificent. I left my apartment about 8:30 last night, took 3 trains to JFK, almost missed my 11:55
by Dan Flag, Oct 13, 2024
There’s an Italian guy here in the city who has me stored in his phone as Dan the Vampire. It’s two am, and I’m sitting at 42nd street waiting 13 fucking minutes for the A. There’s a Latin dude on the bench next to me watching
by Dan Flag, Sep 21, 2024
Last night I was out with my boy D. doing some recon in the East Village when we walked past a Thai Dumpling spot on the western end of St. Mark's. We were like 5 paces past it, when I decided I had to go back and look
by Dan Flag, Sep 09, 2024