#nycblizzard update: thundersnow!

Post your best #nycblizzard pics of yore I'll start: presidents day blizzard, 2003 28th Street 1/9 station

Accidentally poetry from the NWS Albany office early this morning: "Extreme Cold Watch issued... ...Dangerously cold wind chills between 20 and 35 degrees below below possible."

"We had whistles. They had guns."

The closing paragraph of the NYT Stoppard obit is indelible. Fucking exquisite.

The smirking, jejune, I-read-a-Brecht-once commentary foisted upon the Arbiter in the new CHESS book is not the worst artistic sin of this misbegotten revival (that’d be the sound mixing, which is criminal), but it’s the one that I’m still mad about, days later.

Oh hey. It's my semi-annual appeal on behalf of my regular volunteer gig, Ruth's Refuge. We furnish the homes of the newest New Yorkers. Drop off in person in Brooklyn or buy from the wishlist. ruthsrefuge.org/thanksgiving...

Matisse’s Young Sailor at The Met today fucked me right up. Color that’s impossible to describe.

Growing up in an 18th century house museum has given me very strong, very niche home decor opinions e.g. wall pockets are superior to vases for flowers salt belongs in a cellar, not a shaker Beds need curtains I can go on

As a NYer who already gets their groceries at a city-run grocery store - Essex Market, first of its name, may it go on forever - I genuinely think Mamdani should aim higher than one in each borough. Cause we already have that, and it's awesome, so let's expand so everyone has one nearby.

@wfuv.bsky.social spinning Everybody Hurts into New York Morning. Last Fare of the Day into Empty Sky into Imagine. The DJs aren’t talking about it, they’re playing it. This is the magic of live radio made by people. Text & subtext, obvious & oblique, evanescent over the airwaves.

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Accidentally ended up in a crypto bar this evening and - I kid you not - the back room had a mosquito problem. My ankles are littered with bites Bloodsuckers in the bitcoin bar quelle surprise

Frisée is deeply unserious lettuce

Recently I booked what was simply called “signature scrub” at a day spa in Brooklyn. It was … more than that.

Nadine Gordimer's incredible, and incredibly strange, apartheid novel A SPORT OF NATURE has been my slowest reading experience in ages. It's dense, allusive, & is deeply grounded in a period I know shamefully little about. Halfway through, and I need to talk about it. Anyone else read it???

I read the NYT and WaPo because I'm An Old, 404Media because I'm a nerd, and The New Yorker because I'm a snob. But I subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com because I'm a goddamn New Yorker.

I volunteer with Ruth's Refuge, a fantastic org that works in partnership with local resettlement agencies to furnish the homes of our newest New Yorkers. If you've got a few bucks, consider donating to the 2025 summer air conditioner fund? donorbox.org/air-conditio...

LAPD sweeping people out of the MOCA parking lot- I’ll follow up, I believe that’s private property? Mural says “who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose…” etc.

Never forget: they would rather see us dead than free. Trump revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions in “cases in which women were experiencing medical emergencies and needed an abortion to prevent organ loss or severe hemorrhaging, among other serious complications.”

BOWL EP BOWL EP BOWL EP go see it, it is fantastic fucking theater

I’ve read The Riders a dozen times since I first discovered it as a battered used paperback in ‘98 or so. Like most of my favorite novels, it’s bewildering that I would connect with a story so utterly apart from my own experience. And yet, and yet. So anyway, this is spectacularly bad casting

RE: FUCKS Fresh out. Sincerely yours I remain warm regards etc etc

SINNERS is 1) fucking brilliant and 2) going to be an incredible Broadway musical

PREACH, Justin Davidson

NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

Yeah, no, fuck alllllll the way off, Cuomo. NYC doesn’t need an egotistical bully with daddy issues and a shaky grasp of appropriate workplace conduct. If I thought for one second he wanted to help people and not just exact revenge on folks who dared to stand up to him then *maybe.* But no.

Trader Joe’s egg line, with security guard & multiple employees keeping watch

This is vile, and yet another strategic step by the Trump administration to dehumanize trans people. Call your reps. Today. Tell them 1) this is evil and 2) you expect them to stop it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NYers! None of us moved to this city from Ohio or whatever to be led by a goofy ass fascist stooge, right? If you’re not a registered Dem, how’s about becoming one for the upcoming mayoral primary? Mayor Adams 🤡 sold us out, let’s vote him out Deadline to switch or register is THIS FRI 2/14

This is fucking terrifying.

Of all the current versions of The Patriarchy, this is my least favorite

As a young artist, I spent a lot of time worrying I was that dreaded hack type - the actor who works from the outside in - because I drew so much emotional information from the technical aspects of storytelling like costume, sets/staging, & *especially* light.

An American Kestrel in New York’s Chinatown

Before I saw an Ionesco play, before I heard Roy Orbison or Kate Bush, before I read Angela Carter or Ray Bradbury or Yeats or Dickinson, before I had seen much of the world at all beyond the rural midwest, there was Twin Peaks. I'm so grateful.🦉

Anecdatally, my walk home on the LES featured not one but three streets that feed onto the Williamsburg Bridge - Grand, Norfolk, and Clinton - nearly empty at rush hour.