Per a recent conversation with a friend: Do you consider yourself “obsessive”, and is that a good or bad thing to you?

We live in hell.

@dgcomedy.bsky.social in a tin foil hat is my whole 2025 mood. @dailybeanspod.com #BeansTalk

2025 Travel Report: November Home: 16 nights Atlanta: 5 nights Boston: 5 nights Anderson, SC: 2 nights Durham: 1 night Washington, D.C.: 1 night YTD: 211 nights at home, 123 nights on the road

I can think of worse ways to spend a Friday night in Boston than 4th row center at a Penn and Teller show. Sure hope everyone survives!

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

I am categorically opposed to capital punishment. Except for the woman sitting behind me tonight who brought a box of Tic Tacs to the opera.

We did it, neighbors! #ZohranForNYC

Unfortunate Pony rides again!

BO!

My last Halloween as a Controller. Time for a (Nintendo) Switch.

2025 Travel Report: October Home: 23 nights Atlanta: 2 nights Lititz, PA: 2 nights Anderson, SC: 1 night Durham: 1 night Philadelphia: 1 night Manchester: 1 night YTD: 195 nights at home, 109 nights on the road

Since I have to be in Plymouth for work on May 23rd, it seems only right to join the crew of a schooner for a 5-day voyage sailing out of Plymouth on May 24th. It would be rude not to.

That’s the way to start the game, boys!

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Seth Meyers responds to Fox News dismissing #NoKings protesters as "theatre kids": “Don’t fucking come for theatre kids. They love attention, they know every word to Les Miz, and until tech week starts for the winter talent show, they are available to come for your ass.” You're goddamn right.

Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.

I told my dad the Blue Jays couldn’t lose if we both wore our magic shirts. (Yes, we’ve had them for 33 years.) Our final text exchange of the night:

Typical day at the office.

A beautiful Autumn day in New York to stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge with my mum.

Reunited!

Opening night of the UK tour of Death on the Nile at the beautiful Lowry Theatre in Salford. Break legs, mes amis!

2025 Travel Report: September Home: 21 nights Manchester: 7 nights Washington, D.C.: 1 night In-flight: 1 night YTD: 172 nights at home, 101 nights on the road

I was supposed to resist this tote bag? Please.

Spent the weekend back on the water, earning my next American Sailing Association certification—Coastal Cruising.

This neighborhood cat loves to come visit with Boswell. They are such cute little friends.

A cricket was chirping inside my Manhattan apartment all fucking night. One fucking cricket. One impossibly loud fucking cricket. By 3 am, I was full Walter White vs the fly.

I was so fortunate attend the closing performance of Free Shakespeare in the Park's TWELFTH NIGHT on Sunday at the revitalized Delacorte. Sensational theater, freely shared, and a testament to the importance of public arts in NYC.

Still rowing away on my virtual journey from John O’Groats to Lands End. When I’m not on the road, I do about 10km a day on my rowing machine. Yesterday I reached Inverness. That’s 267km—166 miles or 20% of the full route. On to Glasgow.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

The owner of my sailing school reached out to say my instructor specifically recommended me for the next certification level. Time to get studying—ASA 103 exam in two weeks!

2025 Travel Report: August Home: 14 nights London: 6 nights Ontario, Canada: 6 nights Lenox, Massachusetts: 4 nights In-flight: 1 night YTD: 151 nights at home, 92 nights on the road

Intermission: Broadway achievement unlocked.

Seeing a matinee of Just in Time. I’m sitting in row A so Jonathan Groff can spit on me.

Post-rehearsal drinks with the brilliant cast of #AgathaChristie ‘s #DeathOnTheNile.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...

2025 Travel Report: July Home: 22 nights Washington, D.C.: 6 nights South Carolina: 2 nights On the road: 1 night YTD: 137 nights at home, 75 nights on the road

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

Boswell still hasn’t figured out how chairs work.

I passed my American Sailing Association 101 certification! Yay! I’ve wanted to learn to sail for decades, but I’m so glad I waited until New York Harbor was my home port.

Apparently I take up a new crazy activity every five years. Ten years ago I started sword fighting, five years ago I started ninja training, and today I took my first sailing lesson. I also seem to be training as an accidental pirate.

I’m so excited to jump into rehearsals with this amazing team in August!

I enjoy my rowing machine more when I imagine myself traveling somewhere. It took my old ass 15 sessions to row the 50-mile perimeter of Loch Ness, a virtual trek I finished yesterday. Today, I leave John O’Groats on the 874-mile journey to Lands End. Trying to arrive by March 9th—my next birthday.

In this week’s episode of #StrongMessageHere (do you listen? You should), @helenlewis.bsky.social and @aiannucci.bsky.social called BlueSky posts “Bloots”, and I will now never call them anything else: “Did you see his bloot?” “What are you doing?” “Blooting” “She blooted about it yesterday.”