✏️ New Word Learned:
Dilatory: slow, tardy, or inclined to cause delay
✏️ New Word Learned:
Siroc: A siroc (or more commonly sirocco) is a hot, dry, and dust-laden wind that originates in the Sahara Desert and blows across North Africa into Southern Europe.
✍️ New blog post just published // Read the full thing here: bradley-andrews.com
Counting Car Horns Instead Of Sheep
Months into the summer, I was expressing to a friend the sudden and uncharacteristic urge I had to wander into a church. “My ass has done its ten thousand hours of warming a pew and I could care less if I ever heard another sermon. I think I just wanted to feel at home,” I remember saying. He let my statement linger, and after staring pensively into the ceiling, he replied, “Bradley, I thought the goal was to feel at home everywhere.”
I let that statement linger too.
✍️ Seven Minute Drill (5/27/2026) // bradley-andrews.com
📚 Currently reading Frankenstein, but ordered these books some weeks back and happy to have them in hand. 😍
📦 I know I am about to turn 30 because events like “my new picture frame from Etsy just arrived” makes me genuinely excited.
💬 A great reminder from Theodore Adorno:
The eye for possible advantages is the mortal enemy of all friendships.
💬 Quote I was reminded of from Vaclav Havel:
“Whenever I have encountered any kind of deep problem with the world… somewhere at the long chain of events that gave rise to the problem at issue I have always found one and the same cause: a lack of accountability to and responsibility for the world.”
📷 New photos from yours truly. Things are heating up in NYC. ☀️ All taken on film on my Pentax K1000.
🧱 Taken at Tom Sach’s current exhibition at Salon94. Never ceases to inspire.
🎨 Got this gorgeous print from a German artist who lives in my neighborhood. He said it was inspired by Anna Akhmatova’s “In the Evening.”
Admittedly, I have yet to see the connection, but am nonetheless entranced with the design. 🤣😍
✏️ New Word Learned:
Encomium: a formal expression of high praise or a glowing tribute
👽 I was sitting outside a theatre and overhead a man explaining the entire plot of Star Wars—including Mandalorian and Grogu—to whom I can only assume is his girlfriend.
There is something strangely universal and endearing about this❤️
🎥 Watched: The Devil Wears Prada 2
A greatly entertaining watch. I adore the first film and think they did it justice. Love how so many males in the film are portrayed as patient and competent: Stanley Tucci, of course, but also Kenneth Branagh and Pat Brammall. Streep, as usual, is a force. ❤️
🎥 Watched: Obsession
Obsession is a new horror film about a young man named Bear who uses his one wish from an enchanted novelty shop to make his best friend, Nikki, “love him more than anyone on the f*cking planet.” The wish goes sideways and Bear’s dream girl is turned into a walking nightmare.
I really liked the film, although it is deeply unsettling and not for anyone who is easily disturbed. I think the film actually has a lot to say about the gender politics of youth and the loneliness epidemic. The lead actress' performance is one for the history books, seriously. The entire movie is summed up by this line from Sylvia Plath:
“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.” ― Sylvia Plath
🧟♂️ Sherwood News has a great report on the “Resurrection Economy”— i.e. the various ways that companies are making money off of the AI likeness of deceased celebrities. This is legitimately going to be the birth of a whole new industry; just wait until it becomes accessible to the general public.
✍️ Recognized that I have not been believing the best in others recently. Wrote this post as a reminder for why I should be more open-hearted // bradley-andrews.com
And while its true that our culture undervalues simplicity, we have more than a few examples in fiction that embody, and even exaggerate, this virtue. Inspector Clouseau, Mr. Magoo, and Mr. Bean, are great examples of what is essentially the same character. They are simpletons in every sense of the word, always out of step with the rhythms and conventions of modernity, yet still one step ahead of the deceivers, thieves, and robbers who try to take advantage of them. The satisfaction we receive from watching these individuals expose hypocrites is the same triumph we feel when the Road Runner escapes Wile E. Coyote. It is the victory of austerity over cleverness, simplicity over scheming, and humility over genius. A person who chooses to be simple, surrendered, and accepting is choosing a path that is both incomprehensible and intractable to the hypocrite, because the hypocrite has optimized for complexity, power, and force rather than simple, unassuming honesty.
Would love if you took the time to read and let me know your thoughts! I am quite fond of the closing paragraphs (not included above), if I am allowed to say so. ❤️
👨💻 I found a Reddit Page that asks if Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno aren’t technically ancient fanfictions about the bible—and the implications are quite funny when you think about it.
💬 From Rob Henri:
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”