Archive - Scott Lazer's Writings

Bolting Cilantro

Early lessons from an emerging gardener

Jul 10 •

Copy until it's yours

Imitation is something we don’t want to admit we do because we’re all so goddamn original

Jul 1 •

June 2025

You might already be an art collector

The Art World™ is perhaps the most pretentious and inaccessible of the creative fields, but your collection doesn’t have to be.

Jun 24 •

6 months into a neck injury that nearly broke my spirit

Say "cervical radiculopathy" five times fast

Jun 17 •

May 2025

Menagerie in Koreatown

My Los Angeles neighbors and their pets

May 6 •

February 2025

I will never understand people who don’t consider The Beatles the greatest band of all time

Sir Paul’s performance at SNL50 is yet another reminder of the Fab Four’s timeless genius

Feb 19 •

Do you want to build community or are you just lonely?

A couple of weeks ago, my friend L texted me an article by Serena Dai called The Easiest Way to Keep Your Friends with the note “Reading this at laurel…

Feb 5 •

January 2025

The Don Sherbert Fan Club

How a halfwitted restaurant owner united his staff against him

Jan 16 •

December 2024

The cosmic circumstances that brought me into J. Cole’s orbit

Timing is everything, but also persistence and a little nudge from the universe

Dec 11, 2024 •

The long and humiliating road of securing representation as a commercial filmmaker

Dec 4, 2024 •

October 2024

A Near-Death Experience at Art Basel

Barefoot firefighters, a made-for-Instagram dinner activation, and a SoundCloud rapper converge during one of the scariest nights of my life

Oct 28, 2024 •

Goners: My Journey to Recover Lost AirPods

A missing pair and a mysterious trail

Oct 9, 2024 •

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