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  • The Rake

    Letter from the Founder

    Dec 06, 2019 4 minutes
    —Wei Koh, Founder & Editorial Director

    t my peril I paraphrase Queen Elizabeth II in her speech to Guildhall on the 40th anniversary of her accession to the throne. “2019 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has been an .” As far as I’m concerned, 2019 truly sucked ass. It has sucked big fat donkey balls. To put it metaphorically, 2019 was like being an agoraphobic living downhill from a waste processing plant when the main tank blows and you are stuck helplessly as an in the tome marking my forward progression through this thing we call life?

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