Author Archives: Justin Deitchman

The charred skeletons of cars and buses lay scattered among the burned-out buildings and broken glass of the urban outskirts of Paris. Young rebels open fire on police and attack commuter trains with rocks and guns. This eerie scene seems reminiscent of some Hollywood movie, but photographs on the front pages of newspapers around the […]

Every day, we pass by hundreds of people while we go about our daily routine, but we rarely get the chance to really connect with these people. It would be crazy to try to connect with everyone we meet, so instead we sometimes block everyone out and crawl deeper inside of ourselves, turning up our […]

When I tell people I am going to an art show, they usually imagine a sterile room full of geriatric intellectuals in fancy dress, staring at paintings of Queen Elizabeth. While this may be the case in some circumstances, for the most part, it’s a gross misconception. Oftentimes, art openings have DJs and free booze, […]

People love to follow trends, whether in fashion, music or politics. They can be like lemmings, blindly following the drone in front of them, without any conscious thought of their own. The problem is, even though I’m conscious of this problem, I’m no different than your average trend-following robot, and neither are you. I think […]

At some point, all of us have to make life changing decisions ““ some choose to go to college, and some choose to go to Las Vegas. Professional poker player John Murphy chose the road to Vegas, and placed 13th out of 2,650 players in the 2004 World Series of Poker at only 23 years […]

This weekend, while wandering the streets of Westwood, I stumbled upon a homeless man in the alleyway behind the In-N-Out. He was sitting on a ledge, contentedly sipping a Mickey’s tall can of malt liquor through his missing two front teeth, flanked by a crumpled bag of leftover fast food and a newspaper. I have […]

Since the dawn of time, nothing has caused mankind more drama than the strange relationship between the vehicle and the parking space. They share a troublesome connection that is both symbiotic and hostile. Vehicles need places to park, and parking spaces only exist because the vehicles need them. They need each other, but for some […]