📸 Skate Park in Manhattan
Started Reading: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard 📚
Excited to begin this. It has been on my list since at least 2020, after seeing it on Cas Holman’s list of favorites. Since then, it has been highly recommended by others with great taste. Timing feels right.
📚 Finished reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“You can blast my other passions; but revenge remains—revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food! I may die; but first you, my tyrant and my tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery. Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Incredible and easy read. I recommend. I am astonished at exactly how different it is from all the countless derivative material I have consumed my whole life about Frankenstein. If I can find a way to tastefully link it to modern incel psychology, I might make a gander at an essay.
“The words rolled off the woman’s tongue with irresistible tenderness. Her care was stated with such conviction that even the eavesdroppers understood it as a promise, or perhaps, a prayer. Her modelesque features—sharp cheekbones, perfect posture, and piercing eyes— had just minutes ago caused everyone in the room to rearrange themselves, but now felt eerily irrelevant. She was no longer an ornament. She was a girl— love-giving, hand-holding, life-nurturing.”
✏️ New Word Learned:
Fianchetto: a chess development pattern where a player advances the pawn in front of their knight one or two squares forward, and then places their bishop on the newly opened long diagonal
🎉 I turned 30 today. Lots of thoughts about the topic forthcoming; but for today, all I want to do is remind the public of this banger from Jay-Z regarding the same topic.
I guess you can say that my legend just begun
I’m young enough to know the right car to buy
Yet grown enough not to put rims on it…
Thirty’s the new twenty, homie, I’m on fire still
(P.S. — production is fire because it’s by Dre. California’s finest.)
✏️ 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. ❤️