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# This Week - May 02, 2014
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2014-05-02/
- Published: 2014-05-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:10:28.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, airbnb, alice gregory, brian chesky, gq, kinfolk, kinfolk magazine, mark maron, medium, patrick stickles, ryan mcginley, the new york times, this week, tim murphy, titus andronicus, wtf podcast, wtfpod, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> Punk is a very appealing thing to a lot of different sorts of dickheads". [(Patrick Stickles on WTF Podcast w/ Marc Maron)](http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode%5F462%5F-%5Fpatrick%5Fstickles?ref=drewshannon.net) One of my favorite episodes of one of my favorite podcasts.  
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> Were we destined to eventually 'fuck up our culture?' We talked about it a bit more, and it became clear that it was possible to defend, and actually build the culture. But it had to be one of the things we were most focused on. I thought to myself, how many company CEOs are focused on culture above all else? Is it the metric they measure closest? Is it what they spend most of their hours on each week?  
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> — [Don't Fuck Up The Culture (Brian Chesky for Medium)](https://medium.com/p/597cde9ee9d4?ref=drewshannon.net)

> Like Martha Stewart Living in its ’90s heyday, the magazine seems to be eliciting a brew of both keen hatred and aspirational envy. 'Like so many of these things, it’s just expensive shopping tarted up with words like ‘simplicity’ and ‘community,’ ' wrote one online commenter in a lively thread about Kinfolk on datalounge.com.  
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> — [Better Homes and Hipsters (Tim Murphy for The New York Times)](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/fashion/kinfolk-magazine-the-martha-stewart-living-of-the-portland-set.html?ref=drewshannon.net)

> 'It's probably the same reason why more things than you or I or McGinley himself could ever count look the way they do, from book covers to TV commercials to Hollywood blockbusters to the scenes we imagine when we read certain novels. Infıltrating the collective subconscious is a peculiar kind of power in that the most affected are also the most oblivious. To anonymously penetrate the culture requires the ability to be both critic and artist, satisfying people's latent desires while also inventing something new they couldn't have identifıed themselves in the fırst place.  
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> — [Ryan McGinley: Naked and Famous (Alice Gregory for GQ)](http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201404/ryan-mcginley-photographer?printable=true&ref=drewshannon.net)