One of my silly Halloween costume ideas a couple years ago was Ghost the Direwolf from Game of Thrones. I took a picture of what that costume would be, basically just a big fur coat, and promptly forgot about it. In December 2020, I got a notification from the Apple Photo app that an automatic complication of “Fluffy Friends” from 2019...

and it’s my new lil friend, Fionnuala: a dragon scale male betta fish Fionnuala is a traditional Irish name, sometimes spelled Finnguala/Fionnghuala and pronounced Fin-oo-lah. ((Although this choir seems to pronounce it Finn-ah-gah-wala. Open for an Irish language treat if you're not familiar with the language)). Literal meaning: "whit...

back in my old world, back with a lot of former places, peoples, and things. Feeling differently, sometimes better, sometimes worse—but knowing when to leave and when to stay, and the spaces/ppl that are good for da energy ⚡ Fun fact: I used to live below Sarah, who was recently described by the New Yorker as having "a voice that could...

we went to a beautiful, lovely dovely, love-filled wedding in LA last week for our dear friends Ben & Regina: all in attendance were vaccinated, we tested negative for COVID before and after the event. it felt all the more precious to be with much-loved friends after a good amount of time away. we definitely aren't making gatherings a ...

cult classic The term "cult classic" is thrown around a lot, and I feel like I've found the closest validation of something's cult classic-status...by comparing a movie's Amazon Prime Video rating with its IMDb rating: although the website description on Amazon Prime for Johnny Mnemonic (on the left) appears to be from another Keanu Re...

Have you ever seen a 6-foot tall dandelion forest The most never-ending yet satisfying The pha a a a a a a ntom of the opera is there inside your mind 🥠the good kind of pithy🥠 Hbd Clio Drive-in Shang-chi Give us a kiss Chugga chugga choo choo new york is b a c k baybee Look at this happy, happy dog, just a happy happy dog . . . . . . ....

Read 10:50 PM Today, I was reading a lil column on one of my favorite people on the internet, Jaboukie Young-White. In the piece, he talks a bit about coded online-speak / generational grammatical etiquette, and eventually gets to *read receipts*: “Once, as a New Year’s resolution, Young-White turned on read receipts, which notify the ...

holy matrimony 👰💒🤵 congrats to amanda brian ♥ Out of sight, out of mind my friend's upper-floor apartment flooded this week because of Hurricane Ida...from the roof down the central stairwell 😰. She's okay though frustrated, and temporarily displaced. we were okay in our neighborhood, but are horrified at and shaken by the chaos being ...

How to prove you’re vaccinated for COVID-19 In NYC, you can currently prove your vaccination status in 3 ways: 1. The paper CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card that you received when you were vaccinated 2. By uploading a picture of your vaccination record card to the NYC COVID SAFE app 3. By logging in and receiving QR-code credential...

Last weekend we made a nice lil weekend trip to the Berkshires towns we visited: Lenox, Lee, Becket, Stockbridge, Great Barrington And on *Friday the 13th* we took in: a ghost tour at The Mount, Edith Wharton's home. It was thundering and lightning-ing, and the air had a damp heat to it. I wasn't exactly scared, but I didn't feel right...

I posted this article on Indie Hackers this week: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/google-removed-our-4m-user-chrome-extension-this-is-what-happened-and-how-we-fixed-it-851c785b10 I'm still getting a feel for "building in public" and different ways of using public online spaces to share lessons learned, ask questions, seek support, et...

A slow-time, family week: sweet sweet nellie red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning calm cat our favorite #love-island-lingo: are you muggin me off, I think he's graftin, you're a bit o me, she's got good chat, how about we crack on, they're gettin on like a house on fire, is yur head gettin tu...

The desperately-loving-New-York-and-almost-but-not-quite-fully-moved-back Edition Il faut cultiver notre jardin 🍦 Mommy where do barbies come from Dis one ☝🏻 ❤ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/saving-the-butterfly-forest 🥨 Bumped into college friendie and his new doggie Ellie https://www.ferry.nyc/routes-and-schedules/rout...

For the past year and some change, I've been operating an app mrcoles built almost 10 years ago: GoFullPage (fka Full Page Screen Capture). One of the first things I did was change our name—we had learned the hard way that we had no IP protection in the face of a copycat app. For the name change, I became aware of trademark defensibili...

For the past year and a half, we've been living in Connecticut with family. It's been earthy, warm, and cozy, and a fascinating experience of multi-generational living. The locale itself is very different from anywhere else I've ever lived or spent time in. Somewhere between suburban and rural, slightly closer to rural: very wooded, a ...

Saw my old Chinese teacher from the ICLP program in the translation acknowledgments of an incredible piece of Taiwanese queer speculative fiction (The Membranes) First Shabu-Shabu in a year and a half: https://www.springshabu.com/ Celebrated 4th of July by taking in a US anthem lip sync from Marti Allen-Cummings !!! Made all the more p...

my home city, and a place that feels very weird to me. I typically go back 2 or 3 times a year to see family, but I haven't been able to since December 2019 because of COVID-19. My heart has ached so much over the last 18 months with the simple desire to give my mom a hug. So I just spent a week in the city, this time staying in Downto...

first time in a theater in 15 months magical jellies left: god's creation; right: man's creation have you ever heard of a dessert called a fool?? first time on the NYC subway in 15 months https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/28/remembering-janet-malcolm-who-wrote-and-lived-with-bravery-and-kindness She's a maniac, maniac on the f...

💀💀💀💀 + cute lil permanent retainer teeth had been showing up a lot for me in recent months (see: the 7th entry in this recent post) so obviously I was psychosomatically setting myself up for tooth troubles. And guess what, I had to get all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed this week (!!!). It was my first time experiencing complete general ...

RANKED CHOICE!! has! arrived! in NYC! (This is for the 2021 New York City mayoral Democratic and Republican primaries on June 22, 2021). I am so excited to participate in a ranked choice election. I genuinely believe that we would have a different president today (and not Trump) if we had a ranked choice election for the 2020 Democrati...

Phantom of the Opera + Faust + Hitchcock + Rocky Horror Picture Show + Frankenstein + The Little Mermaid + The Picture of Dorian Gray ==

烏 なぜ啼くの (Karasu naze nakuno) my grandfather texted me a couple weeks ago to ask if I remembered a Japanese nursery song he taught me when I was a kid: I can't read or understand Japanese, so this is a completely Google Translate-assisted convo: he asks if I remember the song, and I reply of course, and with a video I found on YouTube T...

There was a point this week where I noticed a lot of what I was reading and holding onto was intersecting under a wider umbrella: the implications and human cost of tech scalability/accessibility; technology as mere reflection, catalyst, and/or driver of wider ills in society; how we understand/learn about tech's externalities and hold...

645am light I had never seen Jumanji before 🦇🐒🦟🦁🦏🐘🐊 Just the right amount of tackiness/wackiness for a drive-in A 13-yo Kirsten Dunst ⭐ Enjoyed a fruity sour beer descriptively named Purple Beer at local brewery High Nine a fine English breakfast fry: chipolatas, baked beans, mash, bacon, fried eggs, buttered toast, fried tomato, iced ...

eggs as insult In Mandarin, there are a whole host of insults based around the word egg. This was very funny to my brothers and me growing up as we had only the most basic awareness of Chinese: • húndàn (混蛋, mixed egg), wándàn (完蛋, finished egg), wángbādàn (王八蛋, this one is a very complicated reference to turtles that also somehow gets...

Solaris / 2001 Solaris / Upstream Color via Kneipp's Lavender Bath Oil a conversation between Gloria Steinem and Vanessa Springora, the latter of whom wrote the completely devastating and spell-binding book Consent 小白菜 (baby bok choy) my absolute favorite vegetable finally the streets of new york city are rightfully tarred and feathere...

livin' in a box summer interlude they are beauty, they are grace, they are elegance and taste happy birthday brudda Meet Dante, A Rhodesian Ridgeback that once won Best in Show my beautiful beautiful friend Reid released the most delightful music video for his song, Pillow Song, on Friday mangod

it was a dark, heavy, relentless week. Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, the continuing trauma of George Floyd's murder at the Derek Chauvin trial. The villainization of victims, the villainization of justified outrage. brutality at the protests protesting police brutality, brutality all the way down. Jim Pagels. An urbanist and bike safety ...

in 2016, I became aware of Rao's in two different ways and I don't remember which came first. 1. one night I came home to my roommate making a nice heaping plate of simple spaghetti and tomato sauce. I sat down to say hello and he proudly showed me the tomato sauce he was using: Rao's. He said this was the very best tomato sauce, a tru...

at my happiest, - I'm going to the movies several times a week (mainly repertory) - only a few people are at the screening - I'm able to sit in my favorite seat and exit quickly through a quiet little side door - I recognize a person or two and we might say a brief hello between screenings and there's no better place to do this than in...