Sat December 12, 2015
What Do You Really Want for Christmas? An Office Hour with Chris Colin
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at Makeshift Society
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Maybe you want a home pickling kit, maybe you don't. Who are you? Who have you become? What's it all mean? Are there any good sales now?
These are some of the questions writer Chris Colin will explore with you. You'll walk away from this unique Office Hour 37 percent more switched-on, 41 percent more delighted, 11 percent more pleasantly baffled by existence and 48 percent more prepared to hand out a solid holiday wish list.
You don't HAVE to do this. You could sit on Santa's lap like always. But mall security would just shoe you away again and anyway it'd be fruitless. You're an intelligent person and - you feel this in your bones, when you close your eyes, when you wait for the elevator, when Netflix is loading - life is passing fast these days. Take advantage of the holidays to do some fun, non-plodding soul-searching. You don't even have to do the searching! Chris will do it for you! Just sit there! At the end of a sprawling and entertaining conversation (Chris wrote a book about how to have good ones), he will issue a declaration for what you need most in your life.
Are you a writer looking for narrative help? New parent in search of perspective? Contented parking attendant hooked on Bonanza reruns? Retired banker contemplating a fourth marriage? Perfect. You're a human and you’ll enjoy a rousing conversation. Guaranteed to be useful and memorable for up to ten years or two weeks, whichever comes first.
Practitioner Bio:
Chris Colin has written about chimp filmmakers, ethnic cleansing, George Bush's pool boy, blind visual artists, solitary confinement, the Yelpification of the universe and more for the NewYorker.com, the New York Times Magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, Saveur, Wired, Smithsonian, Mother Jones, McSweeney's and Afar. His most recent book is What to Talk About: On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss, and he's also the author of What Really Happened to the Class of '93 and Blindsight, which was named one of Amazon's Best Books of 2011.
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These are some of the questions writer Chris Colin will explore with you. You'll walk away from this unique Office Hour 37 percent more switched-on, 41 percent more delighted, 11 percent more pleasantly baffled by existence and 48 percent more prepared to hand out a solid holiday wish list.
You don't HAVE to do this. You could sit on Santa's lap like always. But mall security would just shoe you away again and anyway it'd be fruitless. You're an intelligent person and - you feel this in your bones, when you close your eyes, when you wait for the elevator, when Netflix is loading - life is passing fast these days. Take advantage of the holidays to do some fun, non-plodding soul-searching. You don't even have to do the searching! Chris will do it for you! Just sit there! At the end of a sprawling and entertaining conversation (Chris wrote a book about how to have good ones), he will issue a declaration for what you need most in your life.
Are you a writer looking for narrative help? New parent in search of perspective? Contented parking attendant hooked on Bonanza reruns? Retired banker contemplating a fourth marriage? Perfect. You're a human and you’ll enjoy a rousing conversation. Guaranteed to be useful and memorable for up to ten years or two weeks, whichever comes first.
Practitioner Bio:
Chris Colin has written about chimp filmmakers, ethnic cleansing, George Bush's pool boy, blind visual artists, solitary confinement, the Yelpification of the universe and more for the NewYorker.com, the New York Times Magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, Saveur, Wired, Smithsonian, Mother Jones, McSweeney's and Afar. His most recent book is What to Talk About: On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss, and he's also the author of What Really Happened to the Class of '93 and Blindsight, which was named one of Amazon's Best Books of 2011.
Category: Lifestyle
Maybe you want a home pickling kit, maybe you don't. Who are you? Who have you become? What's it all mean? Are there any good sales now?
These are some of the questions writer Chris Colin will explore with you. You'll walk away from this unique Office Hour 37 percent more switched-on, 41 percent more delighted, 11 percent more pleasantly baffled by existence and 48 percent more prepared to hand out a solid holiday wish list.
You don't HAVE to do this. You could sit on Santa's lap like always. But mall security would just shoe you away again and anyway it'd be fruitless. You're an intelligent person and - you feel this in your bones, when you close your eyes, when you wait for the elevator, when Netflix is loading - life is passing fast these days. Take advantage of the holidays to do some fun, non-plodding soul-searching. You don't even have to do the searching! Chris will do it for you! Just sit there! At the end of a sprawling and entertaining conversation (Chris wrote a book about how to have good ones), he will issue a declaration for what you need most in your life.
Are you a writer looking for narrative help? New parent in search of perspective? Contented parking attendant hooked on Bonanza reruns? Retired banker contemplating a fourth marriage? Perfect. You're a human and you’ll enjoy a rousing conversation. Guaranteed to be useful and memorable for up to ten years or two weeks, whichever comes first.
Practitioner Bio:
Chris Colin has written about chimp filmmakers, ethnic cleansing, George Bush's pool boy, blind visual artists, solitary confinement, the Yelpification of the universe and more for the NewYorker.com, the New York Times Magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, Saveur, Wired, Smithsonian, Mother Jones, McSweeney's and Afar. His most recent book is What to Talk About: On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss, and he's also the author of What Really Happened to the Class of '93 and Blindsight, which was named one of Amazon's Best Books of 2011.
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These are some of the questions writer Chris Colin will explore with you. You'll walk away from this unique Office Hour 37 percent more switched-on, 41 percent more delighted, 11 percent more pleasantly baffled by existence and 48 percent more prepared to hand out a solid holiday wish list.
You don't HAVE to do this. You could sit on Santa's lap like always. But mall security would just shoe you away again and anyway it'd be fruitless. You're an intelligent person and - you feel this in your bones, when you close your eyes, when you wait for the elevator, when Netflix is loading - life is passing fast these days. Take advantage of the holidays to do some fun, non-plodding soul-searching. You don't even have to do the searching! Chris will do it for you! Just sit there! At the end of a sprawling and entertaining conversation (Chris wrote a book about how to have good ones), he will issue a declaration for what you need most in your life.
Are you a writer looking for narrative help? New parent in search of perspective? Contented parking attendant hooked on Bonanza reruns? Retired banker contemplating a fourth marriage? Perfect. You're a human and you’ll enjoy a rousing conversation. Guaranteed to be useful and memorable for up to ten years or two weeks, whichever comes first.
Practitioner Bio:
Chris Colin has written about chimp filmmakers, ethnic cleansing, George Bush's pool boy, blind visual artists, solitary confinement, the Yelpification of the universe and more for the NewYorker.com, the New York Times Magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, Saveur, Wired, Smithsonian, Mother Jones, McSweeney's and Afar. His most recent book is What to Talk About: On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss, and he's also the author of What Really Happened to the Class of '93 and Blindsight, which was named one of Amazon's Best Books of 2011.
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