CHRIS GAYOMALI'S LOVE/HATE LIST

Dream Baby Press asked Chris Gayomali for a list of 20 things he loves and 20 things he hates ❤️🚫

Chris Gayomali is a writer and longtime GQ editor and now writes HEAVIES, one of my favorite Substacks. He’s written stories on everyone from Steven Yeun to Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus. You might know him from his viral feature on cosmetic leg lengthening, which was so widely talked about that Saturday Night Live saw fit to spoof it.

Outside of journalism he’s a Muay Thai practitioner and sometimes competitor who spends a lot of his downtime training at Five Points Academy in Soho/Chinatown.

THINGS CHRIS GAYOMALI LOVES:

1. Muay Thai 

   

2. Hai Sporting Gear By Issey Miyake

3. Water Filtration Evangelists

4. Kill Bill 1 But Starting At The O-Ren Ishii Part

   

5. Homie Ghost Stories

6. The Paper Menagerie By Ken Liu  

   

7. Our Toddler's Mangled Pronunciation Of Totoro 

8. NUMTOTs (New Urbanist Memes For Transit-Oriented Teens) Facebook Page 

9. Unimprovable Sentences

10. LBC House Parties

11. First Three Tracks On Björk's Jazz Album 

12. When My Wife Goes On An Extended Hater Rant 

13. Grupo Frontera

14. Mugwort Mugwort 

15. Malls 

16. Driving South On PCH Between Seal Beach and Bolsa Chica

17. That "Comrades: Almost a Love Story" Is Only Streamable On An Obscure YouTube Channel

18. The Sea Moss Lady On Malcolm X And Halsey

19. Canal St. Popeye's Regulars

20. 20 KG Kettlebells 

THINGS CHRIS GAYOMALI HATES:

1. Birds (Penguins And Ducks OK)

   

2. This Era Of Zoom-Dominant Work Culture 

3. 45% Of Our Taxes Going To Defense Spending

4. Dogs At Restaurants 

   

5. Hello Kitty Being A Human Girl Not A Cat

   

6. When The Tiny Desk Has Too Many People

7. McKinsified Nostalgia

8. Nintendo Switch Thumbstick Drift

   

9. White Teslas (Worst Drivers; Would've Been 3-Series People)

   

10. "Walkable Cities Are Fatphobic"

11. Texts From Joe Biden Asking For $

    

12. Two-Factor Authentication 

13. Sparring Someone With Long Toenails

14. How Impossible It Is to Find a Supreme Pizza In New York City

15. Boiled Eggs

16. Big Houses With Too Much Stuff 

17. Oat Milk

18. Amazon Packaging 

19. Cola-Flavored Celsius

    

20. Chad Hugo Erasure 

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