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Jun 19, 2025










Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you

Jun 15, 2025


Father's Day 2025. We went to the Broadmoor. Ate donuts. Fought dinosaurs. Your favorite color is purple. You have a walrus named "Wally" and a seal named "Sealy" that we play with at bath time. You tell everyone your name is "Butch." Tonight you asked me how snakes poop. I love you.

Jun 12, 2025

One day, I will have an immaculately organized, clean garage.

It's funny as you get older, the things you start to notice and appreciate more... like sealed garage flooring. This is the final frontier of adulthood. The rest of the home is so nice and dialed in that sealing your garage is all that is left. I really look forward to this stage of my life.

My garage is an absolute DISASTER. Embarrassingly so. It's basically one big storage unit. I avoid it at all costs.

I look forward to walking out into my garage one day — it smells clean, no dust, everything is organized — I look down at the floor and it’s just shining back at me, quietly saying, “you’ve made it… you can rest now.”

Jun 9, 2025

🎶 Elderberry Wine

When I first wrote about Wednesday back in early 2024, it was mostly in awe: how this band from Asheville was able to combine this sense of 90s nostalgia with this sort of country, distorted emotional wailing that just works so perfectly. They sounded like something between Big Thief, Phoebe Bridgers, and Snail Mail... but with a more of a country twang that made them an instant hit with me. 

With their latest release, Elderberry Wine, my love of the band ONLY DEEPENS! It’s a quieter song, more restrained than Bath County. Quarryor Chosen to Deserve (one of my all time faves!), but it still carries that same hazy weight that triggers this deep sense of nostalgia – like driving past somewhere you used to live.

Wednesday is making the best music in America right now, and it feels like they represent this broader shift in indie music that’s circling back to sincerity, guitar solos, and emotional texture—what GQ recently dubbed the “New Golden Age of Dad Rock.” I am a Dad... and I love this music, so yeah.

They made their TV debut a few weeks back on Late Night with Stephen Colbert – watch here!

Jun 7, 2025

2025 DON.EARTH FATHER'S DAY GIFT GUIDE


Noah X Timex Collaboration
I get so many compliments about this watch. Steph got it for me for my birthday this past year, and people stop me all the time to admire it/ask about it. Everybody knows Timex, but not everybody knows about NOAH. A little background, NOAH is an American menswear brand founded by Brendon Babenzien. Before launching NOAH, Brendon was the former creative director of Supreme for 14 years where he shaped Supreme's identity, blending streetwear with elements of punk, hip-hop, and skate culture. In addition to NOAH, Babenzien is currently serving as the men's creative director at J.Crew.

Kirkland Socks
Best socks on the planet. Wear them every day. The official sock of the #1 destination for all fathers, Costco. You never gonna catch me without my Kirkys on!

Toyo Steel ST-350 Tool Box Orange
Look... I don't need a toolbox. I barely have any tools. The few that I have are somewhere in the garage and only get pulled out when my Father-In-Law is here to fix the things I don't know how to fix (which is everything). I AM COMPLETELY useless when it comes to anything tool and toolbox-related. Buuuuuuuuuut this toolbox is so cool. It's more like a sculpture. A piece of modern art. That's why it's proudly displayed on the bookshelf my incredibly handy and loving Father-In-Law built me to help me look smart and successful on all my lil' zoom computer calls. It's really full circle! Where do you get such a toolbox? The Museum of Modern Art, duh. It's ART!

ORSLOW 105 Straight Leg Denim
I spend way too much time thinking about and buying denim. As I mentioned in last year's gift guide, ORSLOW makes the best denim on the planet.

Nike Design Book
Actual Source Books partnered with Nike for No Finish Linea book about how Nike thinks about design and the future. Cool book. Cool pictures.

Stussy Stock Water Short
The Pataonia baggies got a little tired. So this year I picked up the Stussy Water Short Stock. I think it's the perfect length swim short.

Jun 3, 2025

EBAY Finds!

I don't know why it's taken me so long to find out about this... but have you ever heard of eBay? This may be a problem because suddenly an entire universe of vintage Lacoste, Ralph Lauren oxfords, and Levis denim shirts has opened up to me. I have bought 3 shirts in the last 24 hours. 

Jun 2, 2025