This A train is bucking like a bronco

Anytime I’m like WOW THE OUTFITS ON THE TRAIN THESE R KILLER!! (It is fashion week)

the problem with RFK jr is not that he is an addict it is that he is the horseman pestilence

no, i totally get that she’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes, i’m just curious if anyone has an estimate on when that’s gonna be

Illustration of a still life including an eyeball, vase, and coffee jar.

“Arrayed between C. P. H. Gilbert’s panel wainscotting and crown molding, Morandi’s still lifes assumed a patrician guise more imperious, more aloof, and thus all the more performative.”

Joseph Henry stirs Giorgio Morandi’s pot in NYRA no. 43/44.

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the “who goes Nazi” metric that has not failed me yet in the 21st century is: were they obsessive assholes to sex workers and/or trans women like ten years ago? yesterday?

Good morning

Let’s talk about Tony Leung

Some secrets for you folks! 1. Getting enough sleep makes u feel well balanced. 2. Skin care routine makes skin look nicer. 3. My mom told me all of this and I ignored her but ur mom is OFTEN right!

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Cold in a way where I can literally feel my body consuming the calories I put into it

Brünnhilde, 1936 Pictured a cat dressed up like a valkyrie (Walküre) from Wagner's epic music drama Der Ring Des Nibelungen

Brünnhilde, 1936

German coded opinion

Pepe Imagines a Hippo’s Perspective on Life The film's hippo protagonist demonstrates that stories about animal subjectivity can unveil many otherwise hidden absurdities of our society.

The film “Pepe” follows a hippo’s final thoughts as he recounts his life, exploring themes of colonialism, gender politics, folk mysticism, and sometimes hippo biology.

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

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A Jewish child born in what today is Palestine, whose arrival ushers in the Epiphany that God’s love is not the sole prerogative of one race or sect, but a shared gift for all humanity.

An Edward Gorey illustration of two men and a woman in fur coats, a boy and a girl and an alligator decorating a Christmas tree

Type of shit I been on

In Western MA it is 13 degrees. My mom is very angry with me for not bringing multiple coats home with me. There is snow on the ground. Life is good

A grid of the last twelve issues of New York Review of Architecture.

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Eric Schwartau gets bounced from the National Urban Rat Summit; Michael Casper reëxamines the Bronx through the eyes of a preëminent New Yorker humorist; Marianela D’Aprile tries to trip the alarm at a Luis Fernando Benedit exhibition.
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We’re thrilled to present NYRA #43/44, our biggest issue yet!

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Black and white photo of a room with tables, chairs, bookshelves and catalogue card cabinets. At right, Walter Benjamin is reading through catalogue cards piled up in front of him

Walter Benjamin peruses the catalogue cards at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris in 1937 (Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine) 🗃️

Neighbors clearly having a rager and also playing the Mozart requiem which is something I would do if I were hosting a rager

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Struggling w the fact that “I liked it” and “it was good” is not enough to bag me a book review

Me: sick
Laszlo Kraznahorkai (of Hungarian literary fame): sick
…. Sick as hellllll (lmao no we are both ill in the city of NYC)