I know you need new music for the holidays. DJ kthread is here for you. This one is a little uneven, but with punchy, beautiful resolution (much like this time of year). While the playlist began as full of lads, the final version below attempts to represent a wider circle of cheer; the Mountain Goats [...]

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A real vacation, we said, and this time last week, we were hiking through rainforest on a small Caribbean island. The forest floor was mossy, that greenest of green, strewn with leaves as big as both our hands, as if the trees were operating on another scale as they grew from the volcanic rock, and [...]

I rarely do this here on kthread.com, but I am using this blog post to pull together the materials from a Social Media Week New York panel this afternoon called “Forget Fans, Get Partners” held at BBH New York. I wasn’t able to talk about all of the slides, but leave me comments and I [...]

A few weeks ago, I hopped a flight to London for a weekend jaunt, arriving Sunday morning to a clear sky and a quiet walk from the tube to my hotel near shiny gates of some renown. And taking a cue from the statue, off I went, exploring, through dappled sunshine (it really was) in [...]

Last weekend I spent with some of my favorite people (such handsome men!) that I have known since I lived in Charlottesville—Ben, Stewart, and Michael. Ben and I flew in for Stewart‘s performance on Sunday night, and the women of Stewart’s supportive family also arrived, laughing as they circled around him. Stewart’s mother had a [...]