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ThinkingShort notes and media—photos, video, voice memos, Spotify tracks, YouTube finds—posted often and without essay polish, browsable as a list or grid and filterable by type. Lately: ranking my favorite noirs (The Hustler and Sweet Smell of Success on top), falling for Under the Volcano from page one, an all-time Kendrick track, block party sounds from my street, and chilled gamay with a hot dog at a Brooklyn bar. There's also a farewell to Tad's Steaks, a theory about mobility and self-segregation, furniture salvaged from a downed Prospect Park tree, shrugs at The Odyssey and the new Strokes record, a caffeine deep-dive, the 20K-step days that shrank my belt size—and a note appreciating these very tooltips. Loose, opinionated, always in the moment.

  1. While I really love Touch of Evil and The Third Man, I would consider The Hustler and Sweet Smell of Success to be my two absolute favorite noirs. #film #filmnoir

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WritingLonger pieces for when a thought needs more than a sentence—personal essays, a small stack of haiku, and the occasional experiment in asking a model what it makes of my taste, this site's design, or which film to watch next. Lately I've been circling routine and intention, Prospect Park loops that add up to something, dressing like myself again, and a spring worth savoring after a long winter. Less diary, more room to think out loud.

  1. 2026-07-09 [AI] I asked Sonnet 5 to describe my literary taste.
  2. 2026-06-02 Haiku #3
  3. 2026-06-01 Haiku #2
  4. 2026-06-01 Haiku #1
  5. 2026-06-01 The importance and power of routine
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ReadingA storefront-style log of what I'm reading—cover art, title, author, linked to Bookshop.org and grouped by month. Lately it drifts through sun-drenched territory: Greek novels old and new, Provençal hills and Parisian cafés, Latin American sagas, a mescal-soaked Mexico, with the occasional detour into surrealism or a book about creative constraints. You'll find list or grid view, and no reviews or star ratings—just a running snapshot of what's open on my desk.

  1. 2026-07 Under the Volcano
  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. Lately that's meant art-world news (Hockney's passing, a newly confirmed Freud, Jacqueline Lamba's letters to Frida Kahlo), the Mamdani wave in NYC primaries, a clandestinely excavated Roman villa, Sally Rooney criticism, Copenhagen bike commuting, and recipes for Greek roast lamb and San Marzano sauce. Not a news feed or hot-take column—more a personal signal of what I'm reading and think is worth a click.

  1. 2026-08-01 San Marzano Sauce | Gianni's North Beach
  2. 2026-07-27 Casa Macahuite / Studio Font | ArchDaily
  3. 2026-07-22 Nearly Half of Gen Z Says Monogamy Is Outdated – Study - Newsweek
  4. 2026-07-19 How Britain’s stately homes became the hottest contemporary art destinations | Art Basel
  5. 2026-07-17 Colin Domnauer: The Hallucinogen That Isn't There | Psychedelics.co.uk
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