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.
Absolute banger #giorgiomoroder #giovannigiorgio #moog #moogmodular
To the devil incarnate at #Biscoff who created the sandwich creme version, I salute you and will forever worship the ground you walk on.
Best keyboard solo in 80s pop? #brucehornsby
Ed O’Brien gushes over this live recording of Kashmir in 2007 on Broken Record with Rick Rubin. I get why. #ledzeppelin
Well folks, I built a thing. I wanted a way for #newyorkers to build #community. No algorithm. No ads. A virtual #thirdplace that allows you to engage with your immediate neighborhood, your boro, your city. Connect, engage, rant, meet IRL. Built exclusively for #NYC. https://shout.nyc
I miss the era when musicians shredded. #tommorello
#marvel films are right-wing propaganda. Change my mind.
Yeah so um… everyone should read this. https://andjelicaaa.substack.com/p/simulation-marketing
I’ve been practicing this before we ever had a word for it. #relationshipanarchy
It’s (college) football season!
People who watch videos or listen to music on their phones volume up in public places without earphones are sociopaths who need to be institutionalized.
No place quite like #beaverstadium #pennstate #psu
Awaiting an uber on a brisk morning in beautiful #CentralPA #statecollege #pennstate
This uber is wild.
This bus will be the death of me. People talking on phones, phones not on silent with some watching videos. Should’ve just driven.
#PennState bound for #CoachMattCampbell’s first game. #weare #ncaafootball
Scene from the Port Authority Bus Terminal
This track/album will be 30 years old on Sunday. #hiphop #nodiggity #drdre #blackstreet
Watching the Republican party eat shit leading up to the midterms is so satisfying. #politics
Sentence case > title case
ALWAYS
“Ah none but he knew how beautiful it all was, the sunlight, sunlight, sunlight flooding the bar of El Puerto del Sol, flooding the watercress and oranges, or falling in a single golden line as if in the act of conceiving a God, falling like a lance straight into a block of ice —“
Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano #literature #books
This on your speakers. Volume way up. #thewho
Early Sunday morning walk in #prospectpark
How much would I have to pay someone to take this off my hands? #billcosby
A fascinating episode of #radiolab.
How many prescription-strength ibuprofens in a day would constitute too many?
Don’t sleep on 90s Prince.
These days, I'm using #claudecode in the terminal and #cursor about equally and I can't form an opinion on which one I prefer. I think I still like the #IDE and #agent window experience, but it's a tight race. #ai
#davidbowie’s cover of #jacquesbrel’s Amsterdam is everything.
Timely #aznavour
Completely ashamed to be represented by #hakeemjeffries. He’s everything wrong with #establishmentdemocrats. We need to vote him out.
The death of #socialmedia and #algorithms would be societally transformative.
Wonder is everything that is awful about what the NYC #food scene has become.
Nothing about this is shocking. The US #healthcare industry is an organized crime syndicate
Lowry’s Under the Volcano has been a slower read for me, but my god it’s impossible not to read certain passages over and over again. #books #reading #literature
The playwright and stay-at-home partner with their two kids gut-renovating their $3 million brownstone three doors down from me. What will happen when the #intergenerationalwealth well goes dry?
#Meta and #Microsoft are dysfunctional companies that ought to be sold for parts. Though I’m not sure which parts are even worth anything. #tech
Holy shit the Red Hook Tavern burger is the most overrated thing I’ve ever eaten.
81st St C-train station. #nyctransit #mta #transit
Plan to take someone with me for sure.
How not to respond to a negative Google review…
Remember when we thought that lantern flies were the plague that would kill all the trees in NYC?
Let’s go #Mets!
Watching #TheInvite makes me feel so validated and vindicated in my life decisions despite all the grief I get from friends and family. It did a pretty good job of normalizing non-monogamous choices.
An incredible page of #writing, of words assembled, from #malcolmlowry. #books #literature
I just bid on an eBay auction for the first time in maybe ten years and won? Didn’t realize we were still doing auctions.
I expect to get fully cancelled by the #chocolate purists out there, but I love both milk chocolate and dark chocolate. It depends on the context and my mood.
Why does it feel like Jack London is perennially forgotten in the annals of great American #writers?
I can’t wait for my tax dollars to fund this trash
My favorite kind of pizza to order for home delivery is #pitza and I’m not ashamed to say it.
Ugh this has to be one of my most listened to tracks. The way it builds. #idrismuhammad #music
So smooth
This #Godard reference getting a lot of 👀 #film #frenchnewwave
Give some skin, lay it on me
If there’s one thing the US is learning about #wars, it’s how to lose them quickly.
A Tribe Called Quest Radio on Spotify has been fueling my walks recently.
First Blood: Highly skilled Boy Scout takes out dumb jocks. #film
🫠🫠🫠
When is Avia gonna stage a comeback? And Roos? #sneakers
“It had been a melancholy dreary parting at Liverpool and a dreary melancholy journey down to Dover and back home, lonesome as an onion peddler, on the sea-swept channel boat to Calais—“
Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
#literature #books #nowreading
It’s wild to me how much #prospectheights has changed in the 12 years I’ve lived in #brooklyn
Donut peaches are mind-blowing. I could eat 20 per day. Maybe I have.
So wait, just under a 1% chance of dying in a car? I knew it was worse than flying but this seems insanely high.
Elmer Bernstein’s score for the Sweet Smell of Success was searing. #film #filmnoir #elmerbernstein #filmscore
Oh man, I love the tooltips that Claude generates on rommy.blog headers every time I add a Thinking, Writing, Reading, or Sharing post.
Sounds of the summer block party on my block.
Chilled gamay and a hot dog at Wallace #prospectheights #brooklyn #wine
When people ask what I do at bars alone… #brooklyn #thirdspaces #books #reading
All-time. #rap #hiphop #kendricklamar
Holy shit this passage from Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano. #literature #books
Increased mobility has enabled humans to self-segregate which helps to further class disparity, racial tension, and political/ideological extremism. Coupled with an oligarchy that controls the flow of propaganda through algorithms and internet traffic control, this creates the perfect storm.
How many 48 year olds do you know who dress like they’re 12 years old in 1986? #fitcheck
Reading Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano for the first time and I already know I’m going to love it from page one. #books #literature
My biggest beef with #TheOdyssey is that it took from the story but omitted the poetic spirit of the epic. It reduced the gravity of the epic to a pirate movie. In contrast, The Green Knight brilliantly stayed true to the poetic gravity of its source material.
#TheOdyssey was just fine.
Am I the only one who thinks that #thestrokes new album #realityawaits is just really boring? “Weird” or “experimental” were never the words that made it into my thoughts.
I walked. I deserve it.
Fascinating episode of Science Vs. #caffeine
Someone took the pieces from a downed tree in #prospectpark and made furniture lol.
I walked over 20K steps per day (10-11 miles per day) in May and June. Lost a belt size. July was a step down (pun intended) due to holiday but I expect an August rebound.
Spicy take: #athleticwear isn’t #fashion. Wearing sweatpants, yoga pants, and running shoes when you walk out the door give off lazy, basic, and uninteresting vibes. Also those clothes are 90% plastic.
As far as menswear goes, #toddsnyder is wildly over-rated and overpriced in terms of build quality and materials. There, I said it.
Gosh I love her.
Sugar is the most beautifully-made series #streaming right now, #appletv
Wow. This #documentary looks really great.
Charles Bukowski #poetry
End laptops at bars.
I’ve never owned a pair of #crocs. Sell me on them.
Beauty from Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits. I can’t put this book down. It is breaking me. #literature #books
It’s nice to have my attention span and focus back for a bit. Not sure how long it will last, but I will cherish it for now.
Jet lag absolutely blows.
Spoken like a true #newyorker
Oh yeah…OH YEAH
When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.
Pre-sunrise walk in #prospectpark, #brooklyn
Yup I think I’m ready to be back in Greece.
Beautiful doggo
Listened to this outstanding album top to bottom on my morning walk. Can’t wait for the film. #jazz #billevans
🌪️ 👀 in #nyc
Throwing back…
Not sure what happened while I was gone but Prospect Park has a lot of fallen trees. Looks like a war zone.
Coffee shops and bars aren’t social hangouts for me. They’re places I go to be around people but where I can be alone with my thoughts to ease into my day or decompress from it. I also consider them as #thirdspaces where I engage in intimate discussions but they need to be organic evolutions.
Back on my early morning walks through Prospect Park. #brooklyn
I can’t wait for this film. Anders Danielsen Lie was a phenomenal casting choice.
#Athens airport queuing is wow. At least three different queues like this. First to scan the boarding pass, second to go through passport control/customs (to leave Greece?), third for security. Glad I arrived four hours early.
Couples getting mad because they aren’t seated together on a ten-hour flight. God forbid you spend time alone, reflecting, relaxing, or reading. If I were with someone, this would be a goddamn dream.
Influencers are total sociopaths. Change my mind.
“Vegan” brands making their overpriced, cheap products with unrecyclable plastic is a travesty. This is pure marketing over real sustainability and environmental considerations.
Monastiraki, Athens at 8:45am
Low-fat yogurt is a crime. I will never do less than 10% fat whole milk Greek yogurt for as long as I live.
The ferry back to Athens. Yes I upgraded my seat.
I would never tire of this.
My little buddy came to say goodbye to me last night. I may have teared up.
My last few hours on Sifnos. So long, you wonderful island.
Fuck the #oligarchy. Eat the rich.
A beautiful passage from Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits that gives a scrap of humanity to a detestable character.
In the US’s current state, a revolutionary outcome in the US of the fascists (MAGA and adjacent) vs. the leftists (socialists) would sadly look like Francoist Spain. Far too much wealth, power, influence, military, courts, legislature, and resources sit behind the former.
Pretty sure that’s an operational issue.
We need strong, foundational #leftist national leaders in the US. Not lawmakers, not institutional politicians. We need leaders with track records of implementing socio-economic change at the local and regional level, leaders who understand that a robust and politically powerful middle class needs to exist, that anti-fascist safeguards exist to ensure the survival of the democracy, that healthcare, education, and prisoner rehabilitation are unalienable human rights, that political correctness is a distraction to real socio-economic reform and fuel for the fascist propaganda machine, that economic strength comes from self-sufficiency and sustainability and renewable energy, that diplomacy not war is how we strengthen the world for the future, that commercial globalization is secondary to a strong domestic foundation, that propaganda and rhetoric need to be swapped out for facts and science that benefit humankind not exploit it, that the exploitative rich not the poor or the immigrant are the enemy of the state and a threat to human survival, that the oligarchy is further empowered and enabled by the corrupt fascist politicians, protected by the courts and the militarized police, and ever-increasing wealth concentration.
Lol you can now toggle my #colophon to be either "plain" or "in the style of Walt Whitman" https://rommy.blog/colophon/
Thinking of adding a bunch of other known voices (Hemingway, Plath, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Didion, Borges, Neruda, Lorca, Allende)
My little buddy swung by at the first sound of me making coffee this morning. #cats #straycats
Man Europeans love jorts. And not the hip cutoffs, the big half-length baggy ones.
A light snack at O Felos
A great few hours in Kastro.
The greatest tote bag ever made (by a mass producer) is undoubtedly LL Bean’s Boat and Tote. But a small internal pocket would make it perfect.
What a beauty
Argentina are unstoppable. Looking forward to the final.
Started my seventh #book of this holiday. Everything has been a total banger so far. I’ve added 5 of the first 6 I read to my list of Books Everyone Should Read. Which is an insane success rate. I usually only add one or two books a year if I’m lucky.
In between sunbathing, reading brilliant fiction, swimming, and people watching, I’m vibecoding blog updates and bug fixes in Cursor’s mobile app and I don’t know how I feel about this.
Cormorant on Fassolou Beach this morning.
Oh nbd, just a German shepherd riding a scooter yesterday.
Mirrors : vanity
Selfie cameras : narcissism.
“After all, there are books about murderers with tender souls.”
Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers
#literature #books #greekliterature
Hit a rock with my tire —> free tow truck ride
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki has so many beautiful passages. Here’s one.
Ah yes. The brookie.
Ah yes. The NY cookie.
A French film producer needs to adapt Jean Giono’s Hill in the same way Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources were adapted from Marcel Pagnol. Shocked it hasn’t happened. Berri’s films were masterpieces and done right, this would be no exception. #film #frenchfilm
This cat with the 👀
It’s been an excellent holiday so far.
I read Giono’s Hill in a day. What a read. Added it to my list of Books Everyone Should Read, along with every other book I’ve read this holiday. A six book streak of brilliant reads.
“In a single leap the sun clears the crest of the horizon. It enters the sky like a wrestler, atop its undulating arms of fire.”
Jean Giono, Hill
The sound of the Aegean touching the Sifnian shore.
The first page of Jean Giono’s Hill is beautiful. I can’t wait to devour this. #literature #books #frenchlit #frenchliterature
More brilliance from Stratis Haviaras. #honeymoon #literature #greekliterature #books
I hope we all understand why globalization exists. It’s because the rich wanted to exploit natural resources, cheaper labor, and consumers.
Charles Bukowski #poetry
One more beautiful passage from When the Tree Sings by Stratis Haviaras. #greekliterature #literature #books
Stratis Haviaras needs more recognition among modern American audiences.
Sounds from a church on #sifnos this morning.
The capitalist system is so beyond fucked, it actually has people believing that powerless immigrants and the poor are to blame for our geopolitical and socioeconomic woes. Always look at the ones in power and follow the money.
Breaking: Fascist influences criminal organization.
You know what’s not great? Sheep souvlaki. You know what is? Biscoff ice cream.
Just ordered sheep souvlaki. #greece
Long overdue.
So much beautiful writing in Alexandros Papadiamantis’s The Murderess.
Incredible meal at NŌS Restaurant on Sifnos last night. But I am a broken man this morning. Food hangover like no other.
From The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis. #books #literature
Sifnos-bound.
Mercé Rodoreda’s writing is 🫠
It’s not entirely clear to me what happened in Athens in the 1970s, but the men from that generation are still clearly living that lifestyle today and I am totally here for it.
Officially kicking off my summer holiday to Greece. Three weeks, two lovers, one island, and endless sunshine. Just need to get through this 9.5 hour flight.
I have *five* of these in my mouth and am getting two more before the end of the year. 🫠
The entire insurance industry should be a not for profit, public utility. For profit insurance is an organized crime syndicate by which you “pay for protection” but don’t actually get any. Insurance execs deserve to spend every waking moment looking over their shoulders. Criminals in suits.
It’s fair to say that Germany deserved to lose more than Paraguay deserved to win. But Paraguay did crush it on defense against a very mediocre German offense.
“I am my own cook, slave, and master,” couldn’t better describe the life I’ve chosen.
LinkedIn designer #1: Let’s make it as hard as possible for folks to be able to scan each other’s QR codes to add each other.
LinkedIn designer #2: Yes! Let’s make adoption as low as possible. Let’s hide QR codes it in the search bar instead of on the LI home screen! Common sense is for chumps!
Excellent lyric: Money talks but it don’t sing and dance and it don’t walk.
Was recently reminded of Goofus and Gallant and realized that Americans have become Goofus.
In the canon of great summer albums
Taking all my willpower to not go to a bar for the Colombia v. Portugal match #wc26
England is not a contender.
Sing! Sing! Sing! Sing! Yeah!
Coffee shops are not playgrounds. If your kid can’t sit still, stay home.
I’m walking one million steps every six weeks.
I remember when “running” used to be called jogging. Let’s all calm down. Most of you are jogging.
Il est cinq heures, New York s’eveille
Meanwhile fuck this noise https://gothamist.com/news/jacob-riis-bathhouse-on-track-to-reopen-as-private-club-by-end-of-july
Huge wins last night! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-primary-results-2026
I’m in an uber with a driver who slows down for a green and if the light turns yellow, he stops. I’m too tired for this shit.
God the #enshittification of the Cannes Film Festival in recent years has been terrible to watch. A trade show for tech companies rather than a festival to celebrate art and subversive filmmaking.
Definitely should not have turned off Egypt v New Zealand at the half. #wc26
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.“
Charles Bukowski
EVERYONE needs to stop self-diagnosing ffs.
I walked 21 miles yesterday…
Ivory Coast showing up in a big way. Germany definitely looking like chumps so far. #worldcup2026
A fascist police state is an NYPD more heavily-funded than it’s ever been and less effective and more mired in corruption than it’s ever been.
The US needs more holidays to shame white oppressors, enslavers, imperialists, and criminal capitalists. But there aren’t enough days in the year.
The book on American narcissism would fill volumes.
Banger.
I would like to give my appreciation to all streamers for having no good content anymore thus requiring me to return to reading.
“I lurk around the mystery murmuring maledictions on the feebleness of my words.”
Leonora Carrington, The Stone Door
Love Oura Ring’s software, but holy shit their hardware is garbage. I hope Brian Lynch fixes it
Honestly, I like almond butter, but holy shit there’s something about peanut butter that’s irreplaceable. And it’s not just nostalgia. It’s the taste and texture.
Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, and Belgium all drawing in their first World Cup matches against their respective teams (Cabo Verde, Congo, Japan, and Egypt) is completely bananas.
When the US gets on its high horse about China’s civil rights violations without recognizing the laundry list of its own.
The NYC mayor needs to see to it that retractable ballasts are implemented at all Prospect Park entrances to ensure cars can't drive in it. Illegal driving in the park is getting out of control, the NYPD is proving itself useless once more, and someone is going to get killed.
Hey NYC pedestrians, stop giving cars the right of way when you are the one with the right of way. Your “politeness” is reinforcing drivers’ entitlement and perpetuating an eternal problem.
The spectacles of modern-day gender reveals, showers, engagements, and even birthdays and weddings are beyond comprehension for me. They celebrate nothing more than one’s self-importance and privilege. (Also def never ever been to a gender reveal.)
Does anyone know the Fort Greene cross streets for Spike Lee’s block party? I’m too hungover to wander around looking for it in this heat.
Lol. I’d love to understand how they determine this.
I know many anti-immigrant immigrants. This country breeds the idea that once you’re lucky enough make it in, it’s your right and privilege to keep others out.
A photo I took at David Hockney's Lincoln Center talk in late 2017.
So long, old chum.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/david-hockney-obituary-2675195
No one ever told me that old age would include sock lines.
It was an emotional night. Greatest game in NBA history.
Have a tough time getting excited for game 4 after the shameful NYC mob behavior that surfaced following game 3. What kind of humans behave that way around a fucking basketball game?
Regulate or eliminate insurance companies.
From Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door.
The 🐐
LFG, Knicks!
When did red lights in Brooklyn become optional for drivers?
More from Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human.
The Hacks finale was terrible. I was expecting Hacks to go out on a limb to preach normalizing the right to die. Ava would absolutely have supported it. And the agency takeover via blackmail was so eyerolly. That said, the last two seasons were significantly worse than the first three, so I wasn’t expecting much. So maybe my disappointment was tempered knowing that.
If I have to leave my bicycle outside, you should have to leave your stroller outside.
More from Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human.
Wallace, a wonderful new bar on Vanderbilt in Prospect Heights.
Eat the fucking rich.
Contemporary American literature is bland and formulaic. Let’s stop signing book deals with MFAs and start signing book deals with punks, rebels, leftists, artists, and philosophers, regardless of education, status, or privilege.
I thought we agreed to stop calling things “deconstructed” years ago. Your deconstructed sneakers don’t make any sense. They’re completely constructed.
From Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human
Let’s normalize saying cow milk. Whole milk and oat milk are causing mass confusion.
Prospect Park loop @ 5:45am
The first real art piece I purchased. An original painting by Andy Dixon (andydixon.net) back in 2011. It kicked off a series of art purchases by great artists I admire, most from Vancouver where I lived for a few years.
Currently reading: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai 📚
If anyone wants the rommy.blog theme, have at it: github.com/fingergun…
Test #2. Sorry for the spam. At least they’re cute photos tho, right?
Testing photo uploads from rommy.blog
Just migrated from Github Pages to Cloudflare Pages. It was an adventure. Thanks Cursor.
It’s summer, baby.
September 2026
To the devil incarnate at #Biscoff who created the sandwich creme version, I salute you and will forever worship the ground you walk on.
Well folks, I built a thing. I wanted a way for #newyorkers to build #community . No algorithm. No ads. A virtual #thirdplace that allows you to engage with your immediate neighborhood, your boro, your city. Connect, engage, rant, meet IRL. Built exclusively for #NYC . https://s…
#marvel films are right-wing propaganda. Change my mind.
#Grok is dumb as hell compared to #Opus
Yeah so um… everyone should read this. https://andjelicaaa.substack.com/p/simulation-marketing
A #cortado is 4oz. Not 8oz. Not 12oz. 95% of cortados in #nyc are made completely wrong.
People who watch videos or listen to music on their phones volume up in public places without earphones are sociopaths who need to be institutionalized.
This bus will be the death of me. People talking on phones, phones not on silent with some watching videos. Should’ve just driven.
The Holdovers was sentimental crap. I can’t grasp the praise that is thrown at this drivel. #film #cinema
Watching the Republican party eat shit leading up to the midterms is so satisfying. #politics
Sentence case > title case ALWAYS
“Ah none but he knew how beautiful it all was, the sunlight, sunlight, sunlight flooding the bar of El Puerto del Sol, flooding the watercress and oranges, or falling in a single golden line as if in the act of conceiving a God, falling like a lance straight into a block of ice …
Fuck #Paramount https://variety.com/2026/film/global/mark-ruffalo-open-letter-antisemitism-claims-paramount-1236848093/
When data leader job descriptions ask for experience in “modern” #data tools like #Tableau and #Looker . Incredible how disconnected some companies are from reality.
August 2026
How many prescription-strength ibuprofens in a day would constitute too many?
The sound of the subway. #nyc #transit
These days, I'm using #claudecode in the terminal and #cursor about equally and I can't form an opinion on which one I prefer. I think I still like the #IDE and #agent window experience, but it's a tight race. #ai
The death of #socialmedia and #algorithms would be societally transformative.
Wonder is everything that is awful about what the NYC #food scene has become.
The playwright and stay-at-home partner with their two kids gut-renovating their $3 million brownstone three doors down from me. What will happen when the #intergenerationalwealth well goes dry?
#Meta and #Microsoft are dysfunctional companies that ought to be sold for parts. Though I’m not sure which parts are even worth anything. #tech
Holy shit the Red Hook Tavern burger is the most overrated thing I’ve ever eaten.
Remember when we thought that lantern flies were the plague that would kill all the trees in NYC?
Love my All-Clad D5 set, but thinking of giving it to a friend who loves to #cook and can’t afford All-Clad. What do we think of #Hestan Nanobond? Worth the premium? #cooking #cookware
Watching #TheInvite makes me feel so validated and vindicated in my life decisions despite all the grief I get from friends and family. It did a pretty good job of normalizing non-monogamous choices.
I just bid on an eBay auction for the first time in maybe ten years and won? Didn’t realize we were still doing auctions.
Current #nyc #weather : soup
I expect to get fully cancelled by the #chocolate purists out there, but I love both milk chocolate and dark chocolate. It depends on the context and my mood.
Why does it feel like Jack London is perennially forgotten in the annals of great American #writers ?
My favorite kind of pizza to order for home delivery is #pitza and I’m not ashamed to say it.
I miss the days of opening a #library book and looking at the book card to see who borrowed the #book before me and how long ago.
If there’s one thing the US is learning about #wars , it’s how to lose them quickly.
First Blood: Highly skilled Boy Scout takes out dumb jocks. #film
When is Avia gonna stage a comeback? And Roos? #sneakers
As someone who walks 20K+ #steps per day, my unsolicited endorsement of #walking shoes goes to the Brooks Revel Max. The Hoka Clifton 10 was terrible.
“It had been a melancholy dreary parting at Liverpool and a dreary melancholy journey down to Dover and back home, lonesome as an onion peddler, on the sea-swept channel boat to Calais—“ Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano #literature #books #nowreading
It’s wild to me how much #prospectheights has changed in the 12 years I’ve lived in #brooklyn
Donut peaches are mind-blowing. I could eat 20 per day. Maybe I have.
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
Sounds of the summer block party on my block.
July 2026
Increased mobility has enabled humans to self-segregate which helps to further class disparity, racial tension, and political/ideological extremism. Coupled with an oligarchy that controls the flow of propaganda through algorithms and internet traffic control, this creates the p…
My biggest beef with #TheOdyssey is that it took from the story but omitted the poetic spirit of the epic. It reduced the gravity of the epic to a pirate movie. In contrast, The Green Knight brilliantly stayed true to the poetic gravity of its source material.
#TheOdyssey was just fine.
Am I the only one who thinks that #thestrokes new album #realityawaits is just really boring? “Weird” or “experimental” were never the words that made it into my thoughts.
Spicy take: #athleticwear isn’t #fashion . Wearing sweatpants, yoga pants, and running shoes when you walk out the door give off lazy, basic, and uninteresting vibes. Also those clothes are 90% plastic.
As far as menswear goes, #toddsnyder is wildly over-rated and overpriced in terms of build quality and materials. There, I said it.
Sugar is the most beautifully-made series #streaming right now, #appletv
End laptops at bars.
I’ve never owned a pair of #crocs . Sell me on them.
It’s nice to have my attention span and focus back for a bit. Not sure how long it will last, but I will cherish it for now.
Jet lag absolutely blows.
When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.
Yup I think I’m ready to be back in Greece.
Coffee shops and bars aren’t social hangouts for me. They’re places I go to be around people but where I can be alone with my thoughts to ease into my day or decompress from it. I also consider them as #thirdspaces where I engage in intimate discussions but they need to be organ…
Couples getting mad because they aren’t seated together on a ten-hour flight. God forbid you spend time alone, reflecting, relaxing, or reading. If I were with someone, this would be a goddamn dream.
Influencers are total sociopaths. Change my mind.
“Vegan” brands making their overpriced, cheap products with unrecyclable plastic is a travesty. This is pure marketing over real sustainability and environmental considerations.
Monastiraki, Athens at 8:45am
In the US’s current state, a revolutionary outcome in the US of the fascists (MAGA and adjacent) vs. the leftists (socialists) would sadly look like Francoist Spain. Far too much wealth, power, influence, military, courts, legislature, and resources sit behind the former.
We need strong, foundational #leftist national leaders in the US. Not lawmakers, not institutional politicians. We need leaders with track records of implementing socio-economic change at the local and regional level, leaders who understand that a robust and politically powerful…
Lol you can now toggle my #colophon to be either "plain" or "in the style of Walt Whitman" https://rommy.blog/colophon/ Thinking of adding a bunch of other known voices (Hemingway, Plath, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Didion, Borges, Neruda, Lorca, Allende)
Man Europeans love jorts. And not the hip cutoffs, the big half-length baggy ones.
The greatest tote bag ever made (by a mass producer) is undoubtedly LL Bean’s Boat and Tote. But a small internal pocket would make it perfect.
Argentina are unstoppable. Looking forward to the final.
Started my seventh #book of this holiday. Everything has been a total banger so far. I’ve added 5 of the first 6 I read to my list of Books Everyone Should Read. Which is an insane success rate. I usually only add one or two books a year if I’m lucky.
In between sunbathing, reading brilliant fiction, swimming, and people watching, I’m vibecoding blog updates and bug fixes in Cursor’s mobile app and I don’t know how I feel about this.
Sounds from Platis Gialos beach. #sifnos #greece
Mirrors : vanity Selfie cameras : narcissism.
“After all, there are books about murderers with tender souls.” Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers #literature #books #greekliterature
A French film producer needs to adapt Jean Giono’s Hill in the same way Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources were adapted from Marcel Pagnol. Shocked it hasn’t happened. Berri’s films were masterpieces and done right, this would be no exception. #film #frenchfilm
I read Giono’s Hill in a day. What a read. Added it to my list of Books Everyone Should Read, along with every other book I’ve read this holiday. A six book streak of brilliant reads.
“In a single leap the sun clears the crest of the horizon. It enters the sky like a wrestler, atop its undulating arms of fire.” Jean Giono, Hill #literature #frenchlit #frenchliterature #books
The sound of the Aegean touching the Sifnian shore.
I hope we all understand why globalization exists. It’s because the rich wanted to exploit natural resources, cheaper labor, and consumers.
Sounds from a church on #sifnos this morning.
The capitalist system is so beyond fucked, it actually has people believing that powerless immigrants and the poor are to blame for our geopolitical and socioeconomic woes. Always look at the ones in power and follow the money.
Incredible meal at NŌS Restaurant on Sifnos last night. But I am a broken man this morning. Food hangover like no other.
It’s not entirely clear to me what happened in Athens in the 1970s, but the men from that generation are still clearly living that lifestyle today and I am totally here for it.
June 2026
The entire insurance industry should be a not for profit, public utility. For profit insurance is an organized crime syndicate by which you “pay for protection” but don’t actually get any. Insurance execs deserve to spend every waking moment looking over their shoulders. Crimina…
It’s fair to say that Germany deserved to lose more than Paraguay deserved to win. But Paraguay did crush it on defense against a very mediocre German offense.
“I am my own cook, slave, and master,” couldn’t better describe the life I’ve chosen.
LinkedIn designer #1: Let’s make it as hard as possible for folks to be able to scan each other’s QR codes to add each other. LinkedIn designer #2: Yes! Let’s make adoption as low as possible. Let’s hide QR codes it in the search bar instead of on the LI home screen! Common sens…
Taking all my willpower to not go to a bar for the Colombia v. Portugal match #wc26
England is not a contender.
Coffee shops are not playgrounds. If your kid can’t sit still, stay home.
I’m walking one million steps every six weeks.
I remember when “running” used to be called jogging. Let’s all calm down. Most of you are jogging.
Meanwhile fuck this noise https://gothamist.com/news/jacob-riis-bathhouse-on-track-to-reopen-as-private-club-by-end-of-july
Huge wins last night! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-primary-results-2026
I’m in an uber with a driver who slows down for a green and if the light turns yellow, he stops. I’m too tired for this shit.
60 years of hurt. #england #wc26
God the #enshittification of the Cannes Film Festival in recent years has been terrible to watch. A trade show for tech companies rather than a festival to celebrate art and subversive filmmaking.
Definitely should not have turned off Egypt v New Zealand at the half. #wc26
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.“ Charles Bukowski
EVERYONE needs to stop self-diagnosing ffs.
Ivory Coast showing up in a big way. Germany definitely looking like chumps so far. #worldcup2026
A fascist police state is an NYPD more heavily-funded than it’s ever been and less effective and more mired in corruption than it’s ever been.
The US needs more holidays to shame white oppressors, enslavers, imperialists, and criminal capitalists. But there aren’t enough days in the year.
The book on American narcissism would fill volumes.
I would like to give my appreciation to all streamers for having no good content anymore thus requiring me to return to reading.
“I lurk around the mystery murmuring maledictions on the feebleness of my words.” Leonora Carrington, The Stone Door
Love Oura Ring’s software, but holy shit their hardware is garbage. I hope Brian Lynch fixes it
Honestly, I like almond butter, but holy shit there’s something about peanut butter that’s irreplaceable. And it’s not just nostalgia. It’s the taste and texture.
Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, and Belgium all drawing in their first World Cup matches against their respective teams (Cabo Verde, Congo, Japan, and Egypt) is completely bananas.
When the US gets on its high horse about China’s civil rights violations without recognizing the laundry list of its own.
The NYC mayor needs to see to it that retractable ballasts are implemented at all Prospect Park entrances to ensure cars can't drive in it. Illegal driving in the park is getting out of control, the NYPD is proving itself useless once more, and someone is going to get killed.
Hey NYC pedestrians, stop giving cars the right of way when you are the one with the right of way. Your “politeness” is reinforcing drivers’ entitlement and perpetuating an eternal problem.
The spectacles of modern-day gender reveals, showers, engagements, and even birthdays and weddings are beyond comprehension for me. They celebrate nothing more than one’s self-importance and privilege. (Also def never ever been to a gender reveal.)
Does anyone know the Fort Greene cross streets for Spike Lee’s block party? I’m too hungover to wander around looking for it in this heat.
I know many anti-immigrant immigrants. This country breeds the idea that once you’re lucky enough make it in, it’s your right and privilege to keep others out.
No one ever told me that old age would include sock lines.
Have a tough time getting excited for game 4 after the shameful NYC mob behavior that surfaced following game 3. What kind of humans behave that way around a fucking basketball game?
Regulate or eliminate insurance companies.
LFG, Knicks!
When did red lights in Brooklyn become optional for drivers?
The Hacks finale was terrible. I was expecting Hacks to go out on a limb to preach normalizing the right to die. Ava would absolutely have supported it. And the agency takeover via blackmail was so eyerolly. That said, the last two seasons were significantly worse than the first…
If I have to leave my bicycle outside, you should have to leave your stroller outside.
Contemporary American literature is bland and formulaic. Let’s stop signing book deals with MFAs and start signing book deals with punks, rebels, leftists, artists, and philosophers, regardless of education, status, or privilege.
I thought we agreed to stop calling things “deconstructed” years ago. Your deconstructed sneakers don’t make any sense. They’re completely constructed.
Let’s normalize saying cow milk. Whole milk and oat milk are causing mass confusion.
If anyone wants the rommy.blog theme, have at it: github.com/fingergun…
Just migrated from Github Pages to Cloudflare Pages. It was an adventure. Thanks Cursor.
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