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Here's our final preview before we release the full edition of WAG!

Galo Delgado gives us the giggles. He’s The Operations and Logistics Manager of Wix.com New York co-working space, co-founder of the Photobooth Project, and king of hilarious pants. For our humor issue, who better to interview than the man who puts a smile on our face every time we visit Wix NYC? We sat down at the lounge with Galo, to learn more about Wix, his personal style, and, of course, his impressive printed pants collection.

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MGD: Where are you from? GD: I’m from this island called Manhattan. Born and raised.

MGD: What do you do in your free time? GD: (laughs) Besides drink and flirt with the ladies? I work a lot. I’m a photographer. I’m also founder of the Photobooth Project.     MGD: We know. We stalked you. We know everything you’re going to say.  GD: Spooky.    MGD: How did you find out about Wix.com? GD: When the lounge first opened a few years ago, they hired me to photograph the Flatiron and West Village area for a branding project. Through that, I learned about the web builder and free co-working space. I became a user of the product, and the lounge. Consequently, I developed a solid relationship with the company. Now it’s a full time position. Years later.      MGD: “Years later.” So you’re like 79 years old. GD: No. I’m 105.

MGD: Tell us about Wix. GD:  Wix.com lets you to build a free online presence, just the way you want it. It’s an HTML5 based, super-simple drag-and-drop website editor. No experience needed in design or code. We have millions of users world-wide. The New York office houses the Wix Lounge, a completely free co-working and event space for creative professionals. It’s an amazing place to network with entrepreneurs, small business owners, and like-minded people.

MGD: What’s your favorite thing about this place? GD: The people. It’s a unique opportunity to be around people you’d never otherwise spend time with. It’s such an eclectic group, where amazing ideas are brought together under one roof. 

MGD: Three words to describe Wix: GD: Empower. Create. Fulfill.    MGD: Which Seinfeld character are you? GD: George’s dad. No one says they’re like George’s dad. George’s dad is the best. George’s dad is a genius. I mean, I think I’m a character. And the funny pants—when I wear them, it’s a nice ice-breaker. It helps say, “I’m not that serious.” I feel like I was a pediatric dentist in a past life.  

MGD: Wait, really? GD: Sometimes, yeah. I mean, only because of the pants. You know. Dentists wear funny pants. 

MGD: Where do you get your pants? GD: I’m always on the lookout. I find some at Urban Outfitters. Ralph Lauren. Tommy Hilfiger. I wish there were more. There’s a market but no one wants to take a risk. Who wants to say, “I want to make children’s pants for adult men”?

MGD: Dream pants? GD: Taxis. New York City Taxis. They don’t exist. Trust me. I’ve done everything I can do to find them. 

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With the release of the winter edition of WAG just around the corner, check out this teaser!

Over a decade after Seinfeld’s final episode, my conversations are still sprinkled with references (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Because, like most legendary things, even though the show is over, its spirit lives on. One of its reincarnates is the Twitter account, “Modern Seinfeld,” which publishes 140 character plot-pitches of Seinfeld episodes that take place in the present.

Run by Jack Moore and Josh Gondleman, the handle gained 100,000 followers in its first week of existence, attracting press from Mashable, Wired and The Guardian.

Josh, a comedian and writer who has performed stand up around the country, has a very cool understanding of Twitter: “It’s like a game where you can score points for doing comedy.”  When he started out tweeting from his personal handle, he was attracted to the simplicity of the platform—“it’s a fun place to test out a premise you think is funny, and see how people engage. You can push out little bits of comedy all day.”

The idea for Modern Seinfeld came from a simple conversation between Josh and a friend: if the characters in Seinfeld had the option of texting, there would never be conflict. “There are so many Seinfeld types of misunderstandings that could be solved by modern technology” (a classic example: George at the wrong movie theater). So, Josh started tweeting premises for current-day Seinfeld episodes that included nods to modern tech.

His friend and fellow writer Jack Moore then jumped on the twitter handle, SeinfeldToday. “It grew very quickly because we’d done a nice job making sure there was a lot of existing content, and it was really good.”

After its first week of rapid growth, the handle reached a “critical mass” of followers, and growing since then has been smooth sailing. The boys keep the content fresh by reacting to new tech trends, and incorporating them in the premises.

And the brand itself? Josh says that rather than being an entity of its own, what has been more satisfying is that the handle has contributed to his personal brand: “Modern Seinfeld is an extension of my creative output.” He and Jack have created a handle that stands out above all the noise that exists on social media, and it has contributed to their own impressive klout.

Jack recently joined the Fox show “Us & Them” as a writer, and Josh continues to contribute to McSweeney’s, New York Magazine and Thought Catalog.

But having a project that is entirely his own is the most rewarding to him: “It really resonates when you are the creator.” 

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Check out our first teaser from our upcoming winter edition of WAG!

Winter is here. And despite the excitement of the holidays, the season’s gloominess can hit you hard—like a slap to the face from a fat hand attached to the arm of an angry goblin.

In the midst of this grey time, your audience wants to be entertained—nothing cures the winter blues like the giggles.

So, this year, let’s tackle winter head on, let’s fight back with memes and GIFs. Let’s celebrate pictures of dogs on toilets. Let’s laud photo essays of celebrities tripping. Get your message across by tickling your following’s  collective funny bone.

Make some laughs this year,

Team MGD

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A love tree in Moscow: people write the name of their true love on a lock, close it, and throw away the key. 

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Horses outside the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Photo by Lulu. 

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Waiting in line for a Cronut

I'm alone but

I'm like "so what."

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Beware of dog. 

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Bailey, sitting like a good dog. 

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Nothing beats birthdays and Maira Kalman's art. 

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The Guggenheim in the fall, shot by Lulu. 

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Our homepage redesign just went live. Check it out, and explore away. 

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Our visit to Governor's Island's carnival ride exhibition "Fete Paradiso" made us nostalgic for the 1920s, even though we weren't alive then. 

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We're soaking up the last days of sunshine with WAG's summer edition. Show us some love and check it out. 

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Lulu's dog, sitting and staying. 

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Kenzo street art + dogtiger = we are happy. 

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Lulu, Cooper and Caitlin on Rainbow Row in Charleston. 

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Lulu fixed up a chair she found on the street.