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My 18-year-old college freshman child took the train into the city today to vote for the first time. They got claps from the poll workers.

Adagio in G Minor in Gallipoli has haunted me ever since I first saw the movie in high school many years ago.

My kid is a college freshman nearby and my wife and I like to go to Walters after visiting. (Kid doesn't go because of food allergies). Most recent visit, we were in line behind a group of high schoolers who looked like they just came from sports practice.

One-story hot dog stand from the 1920s with a tiled, hipped roof with Chinese-inspired design elements.

Detail of hot dog stand showing Chinese lantern hanging from eave.

Interesting historic building from the 1920s too.

#NoKings NYC

Anti-ICE Frank Castle at NYCC 2025.

I never took a class of Mendel's but I TA'd one of his world history surveys.

Was that a John Beeler class? I took a full year of 17th-18th C British political history with him and it rocked.

Last night's sunset in a Lee Friedlander impersonation.

Maybe Happy Ending is funny, sweet, and poignant. Has good music and great looking sets.

"The Smithsonian has all sorts of stories of success and accomplishment but Trump isn’t interested in the stories of Black and Brown success and contribution because they defy the white nationalism that undergirds his claim to power and his efforts to punish and expel those who may challenge him.”

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

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"Something is stirring, finally," columnist @roysj.bsky.social writes. "Something is stirring the somnolence of Birmingham’s Civil Rights District."

Read it:
https://www.al.com/news/2025/08/son-of-birmingham-pioneer-seeks-to-transform-civil-rights-district.html 

Church steeple with sunset clouds.

Clouds over a Manhattan street lined by row houses and apartment buildings.

Was a pretty good sky over Manhattan last night.

I think she also got shook from the vitriol she received when she paused congestion pricing.

Koster & Bial's-- 6th Avenue and 24th Streets In the last half of the 19th Century 23rd Street was the theatre district of Manhattan – opera houses, music halls, theatres and vaudevil...

That building has an interesting bar (and debauchery) history going back to the 1880s! daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/06/corn...

Tonight's moon over the Upper Delaware River.

That's THE MOVIE that sparked my interest in and then love of older movies when I randomly watched it on @tcmtv.bsky.social 30 years ago. Still one of my favorites.

Mosaic of Mark E. Smith in a Manchester alley.

Mural of Ian Curtis on the side of a building in Manchester, England.

Made a brief stop in Manchester to see some buds.

YouTube video by aleciousboi MADtv Darlene McBride- Take Back America Tour

Mad TV 1997. The “Take Back America” Tour. It seemed like such a broad and unfair parody of American conservatism. Now it feels like premonition. youtu.be/oqZaQKskP-A?...

Golden Smog's "He's a Dick" is a pretty good one

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life

Jesus, Church of St. Martin, Landshut, Germany

Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words

Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words

Photo through a window of a kestrel sitting on an air conditioner eating an unidentified animal.

A kestrel stopped by yesterday for a snack.

David Patrick Kelly asked me if I was standing in the ticket line at Jane's Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

I was in the same subway car with him once when he was mayor. To his credit (which I give him begrudgingly) he's so tall he had to ride hunched over.

We're going to need a script doctor to end the 2025 remake with the locked doors.