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writer & magazine editor. publishes the newsletter HEAVIES. formerly GQ. instagram: chrisgayomali

https://heavies.substack.com/
Joined February 2009
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Chris Gayomali
2 years
A few months ago, I flew out to Las Vegas to report a story about the boom of rich guys who secretly got leg lengthening surgery during Covid. Now they're re-entering the world 3 to 6 inches taller (and mostly not telling anyone lol)
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Chris Gayomali
4 years
oh my god
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4 years
lol who are these white women gentrifying MAHJONG
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
Olivia Rodrigo about to shoot straight to the top of the famous filipino power rankings
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4 years
Honestly this is mostly funny and my wife, who came across them, hit their energy on the nose: "They seem like the kind of people who call racism 'negativity'"
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
I spent some time w/ @markhoppus , who spent the year getting treated for a rare form of cancer, and in the process learned how to handle unexpected horror with grace, humility, a sense of humor, and an open heart that's learning how to feel deserving ❤️
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Chris Gayomali
4 years
calling it "mahj" is a hate crime
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
I talked to The OC's costume designer about Seth Cohen's immaculate fits
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
I also talked to the young king Alan Kim about working with @steveyeun for @MinariMovie 🤠
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Chris Gayomali
4 years
would be perfectly 2020 if Tupac showed up
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Chris Gayomali
4 years
getting ready to listen to new Bright Eyes
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
One of the best issues we've ever done 💖
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Chris Gayomali
2 years
I got to watch the surgery in person—intense!—and asked my tall wife what she'd think if I got it it. Anyway, hope you like it
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
Conveniently my love language is $100,000
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
the king has returned
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3 years
Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters you help fly to Cancun.
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3 years
the great @eddiestats on the rise of Wizkid, the king of Afropop (with an amazing shoot by Prince Gyasi)
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Chris Gayomali
4 years
The end of a bag of tortilla chips is always so humiliating. Trying to balance salsa or other dips on tiny crumbles and failing. Pathetic.
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11 months
James Cameron not allowing his fake Aquaman in Entourage bomb is peak James Cameron
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2 years
wait i thought he died
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‘The Passion Of The Christ’ Sequel Reportedly Begins Filming This Spring:
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3 years
wish I loved anything as much as The Rock loves being in cgi jungles
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Chris Gayomali
2 years
all my thanks to @AlexHoyt86 for seeing the vision and editing me while my brain's extra smooth on paternity leave
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
One time as a teen in Long Beach, my friends and I were playing drums/guitar etc in our garage and then two bros in their 30s (think: backwards Monster Energy hat energy) appeared out of nowhere and asked if they could jam with us. Then they played "Santeria" perfectly and left.
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Chris Gayomali
3 months
After 9 wonderful years I got my notice from Condé that I'm being laid off. Working at GQ was the rarest thing: a rewarding job that I really liked and somehow got pretty good at. Will be looking for writing and editing work when I get home next week ♥️
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
Sir, my culture (wearing $1000 pants) is not a costume
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Chris Gayomali
4 years
this amazing @TaylorRooks dispatch from inside the NBA bubble has so many gems, but this story about Masai waking up Kawhi every morning might be my favorite
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4 years
If you dorks love Orwell so much name 3 of his albums
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3 years
we need an Alan Kim Grubstreet Diet cc @grubstreet @chrisecrowley
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
profiled the king @USMAN84kg for the @GQMagazine sports issue. we talked about Colby, wrestling girls, wanting to fight for the light heavyweight belt, and more 🕊
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Chris Gayomali
4 years
@random_eddie Obviously anyone can love the game! But the bad execution of this thing that they're trying to sell untethered from a sense of its history is, to me, very funny
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3 years
the new Lorde video looks great
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4 years
@netw3rk a caucasian event horizon
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Chris Gayomali
2 years
I somehow got 7 hours of sleep for the first time since my son was born and I feel like I can deadlift a car
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
we got the god in GQ. 🥲 profile by @alexanderchee edited by @AlexHoyt86 photos by Isaac Lam
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
😍
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2 years
"It’s funny, a friend gave me a long lecture before I started my run about the reason Tom Brady is so good at football: He’s able to make very few errors. I was like, Great, I don’t care about Tom Brady."
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4 years
me and the homies after we all get vaccinated
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
This is how I would like to be remembered as well
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Chris Gayomali
3 years
. @TylerRickyTynes breaking the J-Lo/A-Rod news to Anthony Edwards is amazing
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4 years
hear me out: michelle branch tiny desk concert
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2 years
Christian Bale on living in LA. My king.
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3 years
Favorite review of the Steve Yeun piece came from an old Long Beach homie: "Long ass article but good shit tho"
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3 years
Ken Burns finally talked about his old haircut with @GMPaiella and, well.... this is why his hair was the way it was:
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3 years
Well well well... 🇵🇭⚡🤘 @Olivia_Rodrigo for the September issue of GQ. Story by @GMPaiella so you know its good
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Got to talk to @hubermanlab about his daily routine. Topics covered include Björk, Girl Skateboards, Muay Thai, the life-changing magic of non-sleep deep rest, sunlight, cold therapy *before* a workout, shopping at Self Edge, carbs at night, and much more
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4 years
had a regular Coke for the first time in years and wow this shit should be illegal
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4 years
Rick Fox turned into a guy who walks around barefoot and whispers secrets to trees
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Rick Fox shows off long, unkempt hair amid coronavirus quarantine
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3 years
Would NOT be mad if this story format of "a profile the most famous person I went to high school with" became the new wave
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3 years
AAPI heritage month let's gooooo
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Wow! What an honor! The iconic Scarlett Johansson takes home the Generation Award #MTVAwards 🏆
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3 years
I tried using a hotel gym this weekend but there were teens recording a TikTok dance in there so I went back to the room and fell asleep to SVU
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3 years
I asked my wife "Should we take the dog on a w...a...l...k?" and he bolted right over. My son can read.
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My wife and I had a kid last week (he's cool, very cute) so I've been up doing the childcare night shift, which has reawakened a long dormant online shopping bug
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3 years
Justin Bieber fell in love, got married, found God, got clean, stopped speaking in monosyllables, and gently told @zachbaron all about it
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I will say, before working at Conde I knew zero people from Connecticut
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3 years
the masculine urge to listen to Everything Is Embarrassing 12x in a row
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3 years
the opposite of burnout is becoming hot
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4 years
dream way to die is to slowly be lowered into a vat of molten metal like the Terminator but instead of a thumbs up it's a 🤙
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3 years
today is somehow my 6 year anniversary of working at GQ, which I only remembered because I picked 4/20 as my start date
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2 years
Jeopardy! contestant stories are always like "I memorized the Iliad as a teenager just to be funny haha" and Wheel of Fortune contestant stories are always like "I have a loving husband, six beautiful children, and two chihuahuas"
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In deeply conservative South Dakota, Kris Wilka, a teen football star who happens to be trans, is flourishing. @_pem_pem spent the fall reporting on Kris and the supportive community around him
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Sir this is a Cheesecake Factory menu
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3 years
It's a shame that Batman derailed what I thought would be today's discourse: whether we should normalize calling your editor dad
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Manny's gotta fight one of the Paul brothers now to maintain the no. 1 spot
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3 years
So I "did" a donut with the homies at Wildair and you can get it today starting at noon! It's a donut that tastes like a Vietnamese iced coffee w/ coconut milk subbed for condensed milk 🍩😈🌴
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4 years
my dog just ate a rubber band, hope his next poop comes neatly bundled like some asparagus
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3 years
The previous generation of magazine editors had the Odeon. I'm taking all my lunch meetings at the Taco Bell Cantina.
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Chris Gayomali
4 years
lol George Clooney after crashing his motorcycle in Italy is perfect
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4 years
Why did people stop dressing properly?
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at long last, a Toyota Celica on the cover of GQ
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4 years
the three worst places in New York is just the Brookfield Place Chopt line three times
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4 years
me supporting the US team of SoCal Filipinos
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Breakdancing confirmed as Olympic sport for 2024 Paris games
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I know you're all lying about Spotify because your top two songs aren't Lisa Loeb Stay and Lisa Loeb Stay (acoustic)
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Ozark might be the show I watched the most of before it finally dawned on me: "This show is bad."
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4 years
my dog got into the August GQ. here he is trying to hump me during a self-timed photo:
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alotta gems in this Scottie Pippen interview with @TylerRickyTynes , but this bit about Charles Barkley is 😬
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3 years
Excuse me
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3 years
@krevinlorenzo only a matter of days until every auntie in your life will ask if you've heard of her
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3 years
going to go on Shark Tank to pitch my million dollar idea: Mambo No.5 remade with guy names
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3 years
Imagine dying and people being like
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My boy Kai went to Joann's and spent however many hours making homegirl a puka shell necklace and got jail. Justice for Kai!
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starting a gratitude journal just to write that Obama was secretly blasting 10 cigs a day and lying to everyone about it
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4 years
unfortunately, The Intern is still the best movie to watch on a plane
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3 years
Sure sex is great but have you ever worn a T-shirt outside after a long relentless winter
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3 years
genuinely excited for the Gen Zers who fetishize 2000s culture to learn about MySpace
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4 years
clicked so hard my trackpad exploded into a thousand tiny pieces
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At one point, he looked at me with an eerie twinkle in his eyes and said, “I want to jump from a high building.” Then he laughed and gestured toward Fabre, his executive adviser. “She said no,” he said. “Ten more years.” @noahvjohnson profiled Yohji 🖤
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this is the funniest apology in this website's history
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