Author: Tin

  • What’s in a name?

    What’s in a name?

    Names are interesting. In an odd sense, they carry undue amounts of gravity but are also taken for granted on a granular level. Perhaps my interest with them comes from having a fairly irregular un-Western name myself. Tin. Names are a means of identifying and labeling something or someone — and with that label, whatever…

  • Pandemic Diaries: To our lost plans

    Pandemic Diaries: To our lost plans

    I’m not entirely sure what I could say about the year that hasn’t been said. That we received several decades in the span of eight months. That the year still has a fourth left. That every day is the same. That a return to normalcy seems like a lifetime away. This unyielding asshole, nadir of…

  • In defense of Deep Dish

    In defense of Deep Dish

    Not many foods champion almost universal high regard equal to pizza. Just as its many fans, the dish carries almost as many states of matter. Neapolitan, Neo-Neapolitan, Roman, New York, St. Louis, New Haven, Sicilian, Detroit, New Jersey… Californian *shudders in East Coast* Et al. One of its many forms, however, has carried some historically…