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ThinkingShort notes and media—photos, video, voice memos, Spotify tracks, YouTube finds—posted often without essay polish, browsable as list or grid and filterable by media type. Lately: I launched an algorithm-free virtual third place for New Yorkers, trekked to Beaver Stadium for football season (enduring speakerphone sociopaths and one wild Uber along the way), and kept the music takes flowing—a Giorgio Moroder Moog banger, Bruce Hornsby's claim to the best keyboard solo in 80s pop, Ed O'Brien swooning over a live Kashmir, Sam Spence's sublime NFL Films scores, and grief for the lost art of the shred. Plus: Marvel as right-wing propaganda, the correct cortado size (4oz, obviously), Grok vs. Opus, relationship anarchy before it had a name, and a salute to Biscoff's diabolical sandwich creme inventor.

  1. Absolute banger #giorgiomoroder #giovannigiorgio #moog #moogmodular

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WritingLonger pieces for when a thought needs room to stretch—personal essays, the occasional haiku, and a few AI experiments, like asking Claude to describe my literary taste, review this site's design, or build a film recommender from a Letterboxd profile. Recent themes: routine as a creative engine, living with intention, Prospect Park loops in service of a steps goal, dressing like myself again, vibe-coding this blog into existence, and a spring worth celebrating. Less diary, more thinking out loud.

  1. 2026-07-09 [AI] I asked Sonnet 5 to describe my literary taste.
  2. 2026-06-01 The importance and power of routine
  3. 2026-05-29 On intention
  4. 2026-05-23 For the film buffs out there: Veri
  5. 2026-05-10 It's the beginning of spring, it's the end of spring. Long live spring.
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ReadingA storefront-style log of what I'm reading—cover art, title, and author, linked to Bookshop.org and grouped by month. Lately it's Kawabata's snowbound hot springs after a Mediterranean summer: three Greek novels spanning a century, a Giono hillside in Provence, Rodoreda's garden on the Catalan coast, plus Allende's Chile and a Modiano café in Paris. Earlier detours run through Carrington's surrealism, Dazai, and a book on creative constraints. List or grid view, no reviews or ratings—just a running snapshot of what's open on my desk.

  1. 2026-09 Snow Country
  2. 2026-07 The House of the Spirits
  3. 2026-07 Three Summers
  4. 2026-07 Hill
  5. 2026-07 When the Tree Sings
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SharingA linklog of URLs that caught my eye—titles and links only, newest first. Recent leanings: the art world in flux (Kusama's death at 97, a $30M restituted Kandinsky, the Met and Galliano calling it off) and art-stuffed house tours from Lake Como to Osaka to a rare mid-century in Claremont. Also in the mix: immigration in historical perspective, why restaurants got so loud, Ed O'Brien talking with Rick Rubin, a single weird dark matter particle, the impossible Brooklyn Bridge, and an eight-minute anchovy pasta. Not a news feed or hot-take column—more a personal signal of what I'm reading and think is worth a click.

  1. 2026-09-22 How high is current immigration to the United States in historical perspective? | Our World in Data
  2. 2026-09-22 How Restaurants Got So Loud - The Atlantic
  3. 2026-09-19 Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien | Broken Record with Rick Rubin
  4. 2026-09-12 894: I couldn’t help but notice | This American Life
  5. 2026-09-11 Simulation marketing | The Sociology of Business
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