of the inland empire
Stories
A directory for all Bum Diary Stories.
“Chick Habit”
Fortnite duos tonight queen 👀?
BY Bum Diary
Fortnite duos tonight queen 👀?
BY Bum Diary
“This Wheel’s on Fire”
And it won’t stop rolling!
BY Christopher Buchanan
And it won’t stop rolling!
BY Christopher Buchanan
“The Two Minutes Between Stops”
Growing up in the Bronx meant never really having the option of ignorance. The hustle, whatever shape it took, was always on display, as ordinary as corner bodegas or abuelos arguing and slamming on tables over dominoes. By the time I could read a subway map, I’d already learned to tune out the countless small dramas unfolding around me. I was just another person with headphones on, bobbing my head to music and trying not to make eye contact with anyone who asked for something I couldn’t give.
BY Kate Serrano
Growing up in the Bronx meant never really having the option of ignorance. The hustle, whatever shape it took, was always on display, as ordinary as corner bodegas or abuelos arguing and slamming on tables over dominoes. By the time I could read a subway map, I’d already learned to tune out the countless small dramas unfolding around me. I was just another person with headphones on, bobbing my head to music and trying not to make eye contact with anyone who asked for something I couldn’t give.
BY Kate Serrano
“A Year in Film with Khalil”
I loved a lot of movies in 2024. Loving so many new movies is a bit rare for me, so this year has been a welcome surprise. It's funny. In a year most critics and fans have considered a down year, I loved more movies than any year in the new decade. 2023 brought the auteurs and the mainstream titans out, but many failed to move me. In 2024 I fell in love at the movies multiple times and that's really all I could ask for. I’ll kinda just talk through these from 10 to 1. Any ranking of mine is always subject to change but I’ll stick by these 10, for now.
BY Khalil Hardy
I loved a lot of movies in 2024. Loving so many new movies is a bit rare for me, so this year has been a welcome surprise. It's funny. In a year most critics and fans have considered a down year, I loved more movies than any year in the new decade. 2023 brought the auteurs and the mainstream titans out, but many failed to move me. In 2024 I fell in love at the movies multiple times and that's really all I could ask for. I’ll kinda just talk through these from 10 to 1. Any ranking of mine is always subject to change but I’ll stick by these 10, for now.
BY Khalil Hardy
“Nhà Của Tôi”
Is it possible to have two homes? Is it possible to miss both? Lyly and Van Nails lies in the heavy heart of Hemet, California and for the last 20 years, we have seen everything come and go. When you’re in a town that serves as a stepping stone, in which everything and everyone’s goal is to leave, many of Hemet’s gems and mysteries become unnoticed and unsolved. With my family’s salon being one of them, my casual reminiscence of what once was suddenly becomes a larger than life feeling, almost like a mini renaissance in my heart. It’s like a gentle reminder of how time can effortlessly guide you to places you’d never find yourself to be in. It’s easier to navigate back to Home this way, too.
BY Leyna Nguyen
Is it possible to have two homes? Is it possible to miss both? Lyly and Van Nails lies in the heavy heart of Hemet, California and for the last 20 years, we have seen everything come and go. When you’re in a town that serves as a stepping stone, in which everything and everyone’s goal is to leave, many of Hemet’s gems and mysteries become unnoticed and unsolved. With my family’s salon being one of them, my casual reminiscence of what once was suddenly becomes a larger than life feeling, almost like a mini renaissance in my heart. It’s like a gentle reminder of how time can effortlessly guide you to places you’d never find yourself to be in. It’s easier to navigate back to Home this way, too.
BY Leyna Nguyen
“Blue Heaven”
A bona fide marathon of America’s pastime. It’s rare that you get to be a part of anything’s — much less your favorite team’s — success from start to finish without Lady Fortune going far out of her way to help. From before birth of the season to a scathing Arizona trip for training camp to capping the sweet victory off with a parade in Downtown LA. The Bum Diary’s Benjamin Uribe and Max Van Hosen documented their trip’s through Tinseltown and beyond as Dodger fans in what was nearly a year-long span of moments too precious to even talk about... They’ll just have to show. Just like the Dodger’s season, this photo reel begins in LA and ends in New York.
BY Benjamin Uribe & Max Van Hosen
A bona fide marathon of America’s pastime. It’s rare that you get to be a part of anything’s — much less your favorite team’s — success from start to finish without Lady Fortune going far out of her way to help. From before birth of the season to a scathing Arizona trip for training camp to capping the sweet victory off with a parade in Downtown LA. The Bum Diary’s Benjamin Uribe and Max Van Hosen documented their trip’s through Tinseltown and beyond as Dodger fans in what was nearly a year-long span of moments too precious to even talk about... They’ll just have to show. Just like the Dodger’s season, this photo reel begins in LA and ends in New York.
BY Benjamin Uribe & Max Van Hosen
“There’s No Party like an I.E. Party”
@IE.parties is an enigmatic Instagram page with a healthy following of nearly 45 thousand and a nested impression in brain-grooves of teen, young-adult and pervy middle-aged Inland Empire residents. They act as the Panama Canal for every shindig’s promotion efforts. If the page had posted your party, it gave you credence in the desert… A kind of Suburban Celebrity. You’d be the Big Kahuna… El Presidente… As it goes, it is the only page the town is big enough for.
BY Christopher Buchanan
@IE.parties is an enigmatic Instagram page with a healthy following of nearly 45 thousand and a nested impression in brain-grooves of teen, young-adult and pervy middle-aged Inland Empire residents. They act as the Panama Canal for every shindig’s promotion efforts. If the page had posted your party, it gave you credence in the desert… A kind of Suburban Celebrity. You’d be the Big Kahuna… El Presidente… As it goes, it is the only page the town is big enough for.
BY Christopher Buchanan
“The Great Big Mess!”
Will someone spruce this place up a bit?
BY Christopher Buchanan
BY Christopher Buchanan
“Summer Sweat on The Ground”
Whether in Arkansas or Italy, the universal game of football unites people together. Some say it’s the low barriers for playing. Some say it’s due to the game’s steady learning curve. Some say its simplistic rules and strategy stretch much farther than language barriers. The truth is hidden in every one of those factors. Soccer truly is the universal sport this Earth birthed, plays, watches, and talks shit about the most.
BY Max Van Hosen
BY Max Van Hosen
“In Defense of the Raging Bull”
It’s strange what begins to remind you of home when you're far away for long enough. Sometimes it’s a particular smoke that excites a similar tickle to the one you had in your throat years ago, thrusting you right back into the moment you could reopen your watershot eyes and finally breathe again. Other times it’s a smell or a sound or some other seemingly irrelevant fact. For me, it occurred this summer as I took refuge on my mother’s bed after a day of Inland-Empire nothingness and weed-drunkenness.
It’s strange what begins to remind you of home when you're far away for long enough. Sometimes it’s a particular smoke that excites a similar tickle to the one you had in your throat years ago, thrusting you right back into the moment you could reopen your watershot eyes and finally breathe again. Other times it’s a smell or a sound or some other seemingly irrelevant fact. For me, it occurred this summer as I took refuge on my mother’s bed after a day of Inland-Empire nothingness and weed-drunkenness.
BY Christopher Buchanan
“From the Desert to the City: Young World IV”
YOUNG WORLD is like the new Woodstock. Where the youth feel like they have an eternity to waste, motivated only by their politics, artistry and like-mindedness. A swarm of kids clawing for something bigger and better than what they have — a microcosm of New York as a whole. That feeling of togetherness made its way from cracks in the ground into the heads of all the attendants just as the heat had that morning.
BY Christopher Buchanan
YOUNG WORLD is like the new Woodstock. Where the youth feel like they have an eternity to waste, motivated only by their politics, artistry and like-mindedness. A swarm of kids clawing for something bigger and better than what they have — a microcosm of New York as a whole. That feeling of togetherness made its way from cracks in the ground into the heads of all the attendants just as the heat had that morning.
BY Christopher Buchanan
“My Friend, Savedher.”
Instead of going in gung-ho and getting straight to the questions, I figured I’d experiment with a roundabout method of secretive recordings and casual questions that would lead me into the interview without that ugly, professional suit-talk that nearly every profiler suffers from. I was bending the rules one way and then straightening them out by bending the opposite way — secretly recording a friend to profile them — the structure was once again sound, albeit more brittle.
BY Christopher Buchanan
“Love Exists in Hunter, NY”
“A beautiful confusion.” A phrase I had so badly wished would capture the feelings that arose within me upon my exiting of Hunter, NY. Yet, within me, I found only a profound sense of beauty—sans confusion. The trip delivered to me a sense of inner peace and comfort along with a newfound confidence in my recent life decisions that I could have never predicted it would. It is not hard to believe that this trip will stick with me for a long time, and the experiences I had will reveal themselves in retelling later in life.
“A beautiful confusion.” A phrase I had so badly wished would capture the feelings that arose within me upon my exiting of Hunter, NY. Yet, within me, I found only a profound sense of beauty—sans confusion. The trip delivered to me a sense of inner peace and comfort along with a newfound confidence in my recent life decisions that I could have never predicted it would. It is not hard to believe that this trip will stick with me for a long time, and the experiences I had will reveal themselves in retelling later in life.
BY Dalton Feldhut