Christian Stegmaier
@cstegmaier
Lawyer | South Carolinian
Heard this: “If the movie Metropolitan teaches us anything, we learn that Christmas break is the perfect time for a college student to have an existential crisis.” @WhitStillman

Summer beach traffic coming through Irmo/Chapin/Columbia on Saturdays by way of I-26 East (minus the singing and dancing).

Needless to say, I’m intrigued by this idea. Lived here my whole life. Columbia is a fantastic place to call home. Why not jazz it up a bit?
If we want Columbia to level up, we need bold ideas, real innovation, and more young people stepping up to shape our future. Huge thanks to WIS for covering the vision. Let’s light it up! wistv.com/2025/06/19/col…
San Francisco in July: You sip coffee in your Patagonia and quote Kerouac. Columbia, South Carolina in July: You chug Gatorade and question every decision that led to this parking lot.

I-26 East this afternoon from Greenville to Columbia.

Daughter starts graduate program in the business school at Clemson in a couple weeks. Clemson moved most of its graduate-level business classes to downtown Greenville within recent years. Got me to thinking …. About 20 years ago, before the establishment of the private law…
Draw me a picture of something I can *hear* The real ones will know ….

All those Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey parents moving in their new freshmen at Carolina, Clemson, and the College of Charleston in a few weeks after having only been to South Carolina in April during the spring break college tours ….
Was listening to a pod the other day talking about how the majority of television entertainment now is via streaming vs cable. Heard the word “zombie channel” used to describe networks like TBS and others that do nothing more than play rerun after rerun of “Family Guy” and “Big…
The original #Coldplay Couple, circa 1925. Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.


It’s very sad to be the suitcases in the lobby/waiting on the Uber/leaving vacation family. It’s much better being the “Welcome to the Hotel!/“Let us show you the amenities.” family.
Newest leadership article on Medium. medium.com/@cstegmaier/wh…
New verb for when you’ve been found out? “He was Coldplayed the other night.”
Yes we do
just remembered that americans don’t have random old castles in the countryside that they can go and visit