march Very gray-brown. Starting the season with Spring cutback april before/after; even though there is more green, still cutting back the dead always wanted to go to a shindig in the chelsea market passage space and I got to finally 🕺🏻. Altho, it was frigid, so it was a bit more stolid than I had always hoped may Finally, green happy ...

Favorite movie of the year All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: A movie that unexpectedly cut to the core of why we make and need art. Yes, it’s also very importantly about the Sackler Family, Nan Goldin, and the opioid crisis; but the explicitly stated topics are woven together to illustrate the power when an artist such as Nan Goldin me...

Howdy, 2023 Whenever I've tried thinking about new year’s resolutions in the past, they've always felt like self-coercion, like there's a secret “better” version of myself beckoning from across the threshold of a new year. But, across that threshold, I always discover it's still me and I am me and there's not some magical version of me...

A case of the cozies A case of the cuddles A case of the sleepies A case of the tasties The delicate, inscrutable language of the Amtrak paper slips Because one Peter is not enough Issa double rainbow 🌈🌈 Christmas savories and/or The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows. Christmas sweets Happy Christmas to All and to...

For the first time, and had lots! of! fun! 👾🏀🎮🎳🕹 Also: my brothers used to love DDR and I got to try it for myself finally. Am wondering if I should get really into ~*the revolution*~ at this stage of my life

Reid, such a constant heart ♥ The Washington Post is ending its magazine. From a recent round-up, a heartbreaking, poignant piece on animal abuse from Gene Weingarten. It made me want to be a better human, and especially more gentle to my little beastie. A lil puffer fish @ Singlish I met a very nice man recently who works for the ever...

It's been awhile since I took advantage of a Criterion 50% off sale, but a couple things have happened in recent months/years that made me begin buying physical media again: • HBO Max/Warner Bros. removed/didn't release content; I realized we take streaming content for granted as always being available to us, but it's under threat more...

What I’m grateful for: • thinking & feeling people The thinker-feelers that express things the most profoundly for me are the moviemaking philosophers 🎥 • chosen family A very stylish Taiwanese kid gang from Growing Up (1983) • family • Long, winding conversations, over food Over hot pot, most preferably • 55-70 degree days and sunshin...

The Polish film poster for E.T. A lot of things scare me, but the image/thing that has dominated my fearscape the most: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. While not so common in an anecdotal or everyday way, you can find some recounting of the fear online. I relate intensely to what my fellow E.T.-phobics describe: • "I used to have dreams, r...

Who knows what's going to happen to Twitter. But if it changes into something unrecognizable or goes kaputt entirely, I do want to honor how important it was to me for a ~10-year window of time, and take a snapshot of the public square as I loved it. To do this, I'm going to do what I do best, which is lurk, like, laugh, and learn, and...

In no particular order: 1. Doing it to Death by The Kills > Titane https://youtu.be/X-GkUA_Bzp0, screenshot from hulu 2. Dies Irae > The Shining https://youtu.be/LjLip2FZLuA, screenshot from video; Dies Irae has been used countless times in media and this will always be the best, most spine-chilling use of all time 3. Moonlight by John...

3 or 4 Octobers ago, I was at a midnight screening at Spectacle, where they were running through some very special, very campy, low production value horror movies. As we waited for the movie to begin, we realized the music playing was super spooky vibey, but also funky and fun. We asked for some of the songs from the guy manning the ti...

Tehe Life finds a way. The last photo: bags of dog poo accumulate on the windshield of this car as week(s) go by. The car doesn’t move from this spot despite weekly street cleaning, and even though poo bags accumulate, parking tickets do not. A mystery! I’m just happy to see dog poo conquering a car (it’s not Ziggy’s poo bags, our bags...

Ziggy at 1 year; Ziggy at just over 3 months The 1-year landmark I genuinely believe, like most dog owners, that my dog is the cutest, best, most perfect dog in the world, but the truth is it hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows living with and raising him. At the hardest moments, I've been reassured by other owners that it gets much ...

Does this movie "make sense"? If you make some leaps of the imagination! But is it an all-you-can-eat buffet of visuals like no other?? Most certainly!! Here's my 8 reasons: 1. good ole creepy vampiric stuff 2. the horny Fragonard girlies For reference: a famous Jean-Honore Fragonard piece called "The Swing" 3. the ✝✝✝ 4. the landscape...

Large milkweed bugs, harmless & vibrant 文文, get there at 5pm for one of the five BDSM chickens they make a day ! the sky is so trendy The goblin-dog bestows a rare gift of the sits wet chewie // impatient peter blue bath bliss he’s my best friend, he’s my pal. He’s my homeboy, My rotten soldier. He’s my sweet cheese, My good time boy R...

A boy and his dog Z meets a snake ! 👑🦋💀😭 Gala, Fuji, Honeycrisp Long zucchini boi Thank you to Reid for meeting us at grand central and picking ziggy up from us so we could go straight to radio city to see the one and only lil nas x 😭😭😭😭😭 we stan a man that facilitates our stanning From Genesis ❤🔥 ✋🏻 Put a finger down if you’ve ever be...

In a May 2002 Martin Amis piece about Elizabeth II, he says early on: “As in all matters royal, we are dealing here not with pros and cons, with arguments and counter-arguments; we are dealing with signs and symbols, with fever and magic. ” Whenever there’s a Royal event/headline, I am generally confused by the Royalist supporters, def...

Three Colors: Blue (1993) Three Colors: White (1994) Three Colors: Red (1994) The Three Colors Trilogy The final masterworks from the Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Kieślowski died at 54, two years after he announced that Three Colors: Red would be his final movie. It is absolutely astounding to realize he made these m...

Z goes boating 🛶 A $5,500 book of the baddest gal Ice scream You scream We all scream For ice scream Determination A cake for every decade 🥲🥲🥲 M’love Giraffe-ic park singlish The Artist // The Art // The Process A puppy-plant Zaddy Discovered that my bestie and I both independently believe the only valid mani is a glittery one The last...

meta angel "its rich ambiguities leave enough room for us to see that the price of freedom depends on what kind of freedom you want...absolute freedom and love are opposites." joy and silliness in all its forms part 1 joy and silliness in all its forms part 2 ROY G BIV gr andope nin And the insight of others

For years, I've been trying to figure out where some strange imagery in my head originally came from: visions of a red-earthy, doughy, empty world undulating in front of a black backdrop. And I'm delighted to say, it finally came to me! What I was beginning to think was a fever dream was actually from a 1996 videogame called the Neverh...

A summer annual tradition for Casa Coles: ! Coney Island Friday Night Fireworks ! It is without question my favorite night of the year, and involves 8 essential steps: 1. Getting rocked by a surprisingly wild rollercoaster, The Cyclone. *important* to do this first, before you’ve eaten anything, for Barfy reasons 2. Indigestion via Nat...

PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs I'm becoming a bit of a sudoku fiend, and also a whiz at the Apple photo editing tools this taproot!! proud!!! 2 people I love are engaged ❣❣❣ "can't believe this website is free", as they say I loved Nope. so, so much. a frickin spectacle, layered if you want it to be, straightforward ...

I came across this Tweet a couple weeks ago: https://twitter.com/Bibliogato/status/1542623256661876739 And it truly called to me! Living and working out of the same space has indeed left me feeling like I am drowning, tidying only to have to tidy even more, enjoying my space for one whole hour before it falls into disrepair again, rins...

Some highlights from a family trip that had been planned for 2020, but was delayed 3 times. We were finally able to go this past June! castles left to right: Blarney Castle; kissing the Blarney stone (was actually kind of scary, hanging over the edge of the stone with a little grate underneath); the Rock of Cashel (according to legend,...

Hudson yards King ziggy HeBD MVC ❤❤❤ Fact or Fiction?: Smog Creates Beautiful Sunsets Hangmen A stamp of approval from a heavily-invested person Keith Haring’s last structural piece before his death in 1990, in bronze and white gold: The Life of Christ The Cathedral of St. John the Divine MDW Time for some rhubarb fool Buttdial pano, a...

A ceremony 2 years belated…marking what is likely the end of my formal schooling, and the end of my undergrad/grad 🍎Columbia🦁 tenure: A bit rainy & gray Caught on the kiss-cam From where I sat, I could see the windows of my undergrad freshman, sophomore, and junior year dorms 😭😭😭 2022 // 2014 accoutrements 🧙🏻♀ *CLAIRE COMMENCEMENT MAYB...

About 10 years ago, I went to an art exhibit at the Kunsthaus Zürich called “Deftig Barock” (translated as “Riotous Baroque”). The curators placed especially decadent contemporary artists alongside famous baroque pieces to great effect. (Think contemporary artists such as Marilyn Minter, Cindy Sherman, Robert Crumb, Maurizio Cattelan, ...