👽 Miscellaneous
- 🦉: I’m stoked. Owls are so cool.
- 🦉🦉: I think it’s a lucky day.
- 🦉🦉🦉: I’m buying a lotto ticket.
- 🦉🦉🦉🦉: I’m checking for cameras.
- 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉: Changing my name & doing the squirrel scene from Rick & Morty.
🎨 Recently discovered and can’t stop thinking about Kimiyo Mishima’s amazing ceramic work that replicates printed, cardboard, or breakable material.
Incredible commentary on commodification, overproduction, and the information age. You can also find a simple, insightful interview with her here.
🎮 I am not much of a gamer, and I don’t typically enjoy jokes that are at other people’s expense. But… the game trailer for Karen, a self-described “3D action beat-em-up sandbox game where players will embody a disgruntled Karen who’s been denied service to her satisfaction” was so, so funny to me.
👔 You can tell a lot about a person by the intensity or complacency with which they treat the 30-minute mandatory lunch break.
✌️ Came across a wildly fun video of Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Superbowl performance in American Sign Language from deaf interpreter Jeremy Lee Stone. It’s well worth the watch.
However, it’s his breakdown of the interpretation and explanation for his choices that is easily the most creative thing you’ll see all week. It’s a beautiful blend of artistry, language, and expression. I don’t know sign language, but I feel this gave me an even deeper appreciation for the deaf community.
💐 I’ve mentioned this before, but I am truly rooting for guys like iShowSpeed. His tour of Africa was such a fun showcase of nations, ethnicities, and culture. Watching him do interviews out of character always reminds me how polite, intelligent, and successful he is–at only 21 years old!
Yes, I had to look up the definition of “wuthering.”
My answer:
🎰 Apparently Drake placed a $1 million losing bet on the Patriots yesterday.
Still a better Superbowl for him than last year.
🐢 Well, a random Youtube Animator has made the coolest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles adaptation since the originals. No AI was used.
🔭 In 1609, Galileo made six watercolor paintings of the moon for his book, Starry Messenger, from one of the earliest iterations of a telescope. These paintings are the first realistic depiction of the Moon in human history and lie squarely at the intersection of art and science. Captivating, isn’t it?
If you’re a vampire and trying to get invited into a house, whats your best angle and/or sales pitch? Go.
(Today’s conversation starter brought to you by Sinners)
🖊️ My older brother, a city councilman in Oregon, wrote an open letter to government officals expressing his serious concern over the overreach of ICE in his state:
An agency that operates outside constitutional boundaries forfeits its legitimacy as a law enforcement institution. An agency that disregards due process, lawful authority, and civil protections becomes a risk to public safety, not a guarantor of it.
Excellent reminder of the constitutional rights at stake and the legal precedent that undergirds them. Please take time to read the whole thing.
🛸 Not sure what it says about my personal interests and/or lifestyle when all of my personally targeted ads are for senior citizen products.
❄️ Gorgeous snowfall in NYC today.
A stranger at a coffee shop warned me not to face the windows, lest I be too distracted to read.
“I’ll make no such promise,” I told them.
One hour of daydreaming later, I had to take their advice. ❤️
🛸 For those who have a hard time describing their emotions—the feelings wheel.
💉 Apologies if blood makes you queasy! But here’s the easiest way to make a massive difference in your community—literally, while lying down. NYC residents can set their appointment here. 🙃
🇻🇪 It has no real bearing on my life, but knowing that Venezuelan President Maduro is being held in a Brooklyn prison roughly three miles from my apartment makes me feel strange.
🎥 Casey Neistat’s latest video about this young man with Cerebral Palsy running the NYC Marathon is so encouraging, heartwarming, and dignifying. It’s worth the 9-minute watch. Disclaimer: you may want to grab a tissue.
😱 Had a dream that Timothee Chalamet was cast to play Eminem in a biopic.