made a holy pilgrimage this evening

one of my favorite parts about lower manhattan is how the differently angled grids will occasionally line up to make some of the coolest view corridors ever

god gives his most beautiful skies to the most cursed lands on earth (new jersey)

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fantastic night for moon enjoyers rn

just saw one of the most bizarre buildings i’ve ever encountered in my life in williamsburg

ABOLISH ICE IMMEDIATELY

Happening now: a vigil is getting underway in Chicago's Winnemac Park in honor of Renee Nicole Good, killed in Minneapolis today, and others who have been killed by federal immigration agents. A couple dozen people in attendance so far, though more are trickling in.

congratulations to williamsburg brooklyn for inventing the worst form of bar trivia ever

my partner got an ad on her phone recently claiming “the veil is thin in sedona” so now when the weather gets like this i’ve started going around telling everyone i see shit like “damn the veil is dummy thicc tonight”

sunset tonight on manhattan’s upper east side

this now more than 97 year old nyc diner still serves coke the old fashioned way

it is happening again

just got two of the last metrocards ever made. i feel like i need to frame these or something

just passed by a surface parking lot that probably should not exist but has the most incredible aura i’ve ever seen

you can see the most terrifying santa claus of your life for free on the beautiful streets of long island city

WATCH OUT LONG ISLAND CITY HERE I COME

day 1 back in nyc and i had a dream that zohran mamdani invited me over for dinner for some reason and served a dish that was basically just a meatball on a piece of naan he called “the big mamdani”

DAY 4/HOUR 80 - JAN 2, 2026 - NEW YORK, NY

why does my plane’s backseat display say o’hare has a penalty box

shout-out to my pilot for flying to new york at 4500 miles per hour

DAY 3/HOUR 50 - JAN 1, 2026 - CHICAGO, IL

happy new year ya fuckin animals

i can’t be the only one who thought this looks way more like 2024 than 2026 right

i know there’s terms for when it’s raining and the sun is shining but is there a term for when it’s snowing and the moon is out and it makes you stop for a moment to appreciate the beauty in this world

just had the greatest window seat experience of my life. 30000 feet directly over the grand canyon with a completely clear view

DAY 1 - DEC 30, 2025 - LOS ANGELES, CA

good morning from mount san jacinto state park! this is only 7 miles from the fan palm oasis i was just in, but over 8,000 feet higher in elevation. it looks way more like colorado than southern california up here. this state truly has it all!

the twin palms neighborhood of palm springs, california is such a perfectly preserved 1950s time capsule entering it actually feels like time travel

kinda crazy i’m about to be visiting all of the top three largest metro areas in the united states (la->chicago->nyc) within a 72 hour timespan. i should make this into a new fucked up speedrun category

desert blue hour

“touch grass” nah sorry i’m too busy touching Rock

went on a hike this morning through the world’s largest california fan palm oasis and was blown away by it. hard to believe this is a real, naturally occurring place

every time i’m on the east coast i’m like “holy shit these cities are amazing” and every time i’m on the west coast i’m like “holy shit the nature & climate here are amazing” and i think the two coasts should make out about it and perhaps produce a child that has the best of both

californians really looked at god’s country and went “a strip mall would be beautiful here” huh

at o’hare and was literally the only person in the final boarding group for my flight. is there a term for being the exact opposite of the main character of reality

just was gifted the world’s tiniest 33rpm record and am currently busy obsessing over how cute it is

christmas carols and the happy birthday song are some of the only songs i can think of where if you put in anything more than a medium amount of effort when singing them you usually come off as annoying instead of talented

the floating sperm are so lovely this time of year

it’s genuinely so strange to see a tower rising so fast at the chicago spire site after a decade and a half of it being an abandoned hole in the ground

found a book today with a list of spiritually midwestern places. what do we think of this chat

when it snowed a few weeks ago i was like fuck yeah, finally the first real chicago winter in years. but i should’ve known we actually live in a self-inflicted hell world now so of course it’ll be over 50 degrees on christmas

finally converted to the cult of tgirls in overalls

still can’t believe staten island was called “the borough of richmond” until 1975 (and that the coterminous county is still called richmond to this day!). that just feels so fake to me

trying something new today, what do we think chat

the other day i learned prageru has a line of children’s conservative propaganda books and i have not been able to get over the “chicago” book cover being so obviously new york city. such a good self-report that they know nothing about what major cities are like

uh oh i’m getting the semi-annual urge to start a band with my friends so i can play music with other people again

working in a short documentary thing about early skyscraper development in chicago and wanted to share one of my favorites (the fisher building, designed by daniel burnham and completed in 1896)

the new episode of pluribus is the best thing i’ve seen on tv in years. if you’re not watching this show, you’re missing out on something truly special