👽 Miscellaneous
🎨 Found this small, inconspicuous graffiti sticker from artist Neck Face on a random fire extinguisher on the Upper East Side:
Enough SpiderMan Movies!
Neck Face’s style is not the most inviting or easy to understand. Nonetheless, there is an attitude to it that those with eyes to see might find worthwhile.
🤝 Tips for Extroverts #174:
Need quick social stimulus? Put on a red shirt and head to Target.
First version of my homemade fire exit plan for my one-bedroom apartment. Yes, the furniture is rearrangeable.
👻 This mysterious flyer has been poppin' up around Brooklyn
🏀 My train operator this morning, on intercom:
“This is a Manhattan-bound 5 train— KNICKS IN FIVE— to Bowling Green. Stand clear of the closing door please and have a beauuuuutiful day.”
Last night’s game was, indeed, electric. It’s like a curse has been broken. Some life-long New Yorkers woke up 27 years younger.
📦 I know I am about to turn 30 because events like “my new picture frame from Etsy just arrived” makes me genuinely excited.
🧱 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. 🤣😍
👽 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❤️
🧟♂️ 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.
👨💻 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.
🎬 One of the many perks of living in the most gorgeous corner of Brooklyn is how many movies choose to film here. Kit Harrington of Game of Thrones fame sighted today on set!
🃏 Recently, a friend of mine who has been single for a long time showed up to a party dressed as a USPS worker. I said, ‘What’s with the costume?’
She said, ‘What do you mean? Everyone keeps telling me that I should be appealing to the mail gaze.'
📹 Feeling famous because I made a cameo in my dear friends’ latest Youtube video: 24 Hours with a 1 Week Old Newborn in NYC.
As you can see, they are the sweetest people and make such genuine content. Do yourself a favor and join the other 50k+ subscribers who enjoy their videos weekly!
✈️ Spirit Airlines has officially bit the dust, which is a great reason to revisit the recurring Daily Show gag where Trevor Noah would frequently roast their service.
“Spirit Airlines—we shut down the day we opened.” 🤣
🔥 I am endlessly intrigued by the mythology surrounding the ancient greek figure Hermes. Today I learned today about St. Elmo’s Fire, alternatively called “Hermes Fire”: a blue or violet glow caused by corona discharge on pointed objects like ship masts, airplane wings, or spires during storms. It makes total sense that a pre-scientific mind would interpret this as an omen from the patron god of travel, speed, and liminal spaces. Even seeing photos of it seems so mystical. Love this stuff.
🕵️ This Financial Times piece (gift link) about a cab driver who started the first spy store and espionage empire is borderline unbelievable. This man’s life was an actual movie:
Inspired by 007, Jamil invented an “olive-in-a-martini transmitter” that eavesdropped on cocktail conversations (the antenna was the toothpick). Like Bond’s “Q”, he hid cameras in cigarette packets and microphones in sugar cubes… an electronic hanky that turned a woman’s voice into a man’s, a wristwatch that squirted tear gas, and bulletproof underwear.
The ’60s were just a different time, I guess? Please do read.
🍪 Cabel Sasser’s roundup of crazy/unique/abominable snacks from last year is one of the most delightful things I have read in a while.
Pumpkin Pie CupNoodles? Cheez It Pizza? Protein PopTarts? Salt Caramel Lays?
This is what blogs were made for. 10/10 recommend!