Brook Shelley

Stuff in my travel bag.

That’s all you travel with?!?

If you’ve read any of my packing articles, or travel ones, you’ll know I travel light. I still get questions about the gear I bring, and how I manage to bring so little, so I wanted to do a photographic tour of…

A short review of Baby Driver

A sideways slide into meh.

I’d avoided watching this because I hadn’t read great things about it, save for this review by Matt Haughey. While I agree with him that the opening action scene was stellar, so were the short films BMW made…

How I ended up on Japanese TV

A flight to Japan is long. Portland doesn’t really have direct flights, so you’re stuck going to California, or Canada, and then taking a second flight for 10 hours until you land in Narita. They give you metal cutlery. Your butt will be sore. Maybe you met some charming older…

To extend your car-crash metaphor though, there’s defintiely a difference between putting up tarps and covers to hide the gory details to limit the exposure of the public to it, and trying to monitize rubber-necking and grim curiosity. Or, as it happens on Twitter when folks aren’t banned or shut down, flat out leaving bodies and crashes on the…