Vibes-based KPIs

This may be going too far

I don’t think you’re looking hard enough

The sense of relief upon opening a newsletter email to find only the first paragraph and the rest for paying subscribers only

omg- this Salman Toor portrait of a teenage Zohran Mamdani, painted in 2009, is just so stupendous on so many different levels www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/a...

Winter Landscape by Lovell Birge Harrison (1854-1929) Circa 1905

As if I would ever

f. gilbane, inc., pawtucket, rhode island, 1978

Not just today

Hey buddy!

“It is reductive to say that the central fantasy of contemporary conservatism is Punching The Teacher, but it is not really wrong.”

For some reason we are making an apple galette

Released a year ago today and the record I’ve listened to the most since. Apart from everything else that could be said about it, it’s one of the best cold weather records ever, chilled and sparkling

🎶 Hello Pippa in the sun (hello Pippa in the sun) 🎶

More butter than man

The turkey craver has entered the chat

We all knew it would come to this

Bread slurry

Muttering “I been a little busy, OKAY” at every article that mentions it was in storage for 18 years

Gold armband with Herakles knot 3rd–2nd century B.C.E. Greek (Met Museum)

Champ

. . . Oh, never star Was lost here, but it rose afar! Look East, where whole new thousands are! In Vishnu-land what Avatar?

If this isn’t his best song (and it might be), it’s definitely his best record cover

The truly remarkable 4th-century Roman mosaic at Noheda, Spain. [Photos from: visitacuenca.es/en/content/a...

Whoever created these ads encouraging people to place sports bets along with their family over the holiday should go to jail

I love it when a record starts with a song that is an *announcement*

THE Boston city hall. r/brutalism

Untitled (2 Sparrows) Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2025

Stevie Nicks, still twirling at 77. An absolute legend

"So that's it? After 20 years, so long, good luck?" "I don't recall saying good luck."

I’ve never felt closer to a band than when I read that one of The Hellp likes to go for walks and visit supermarkets on their days off

“Her work has drawn on everything from the British East India Company to hip-hop, Muslim womanhood and imperial America, Rubenesque white flesh and the Gopi maidens of Hindu painting in the Punjab.”

this is just a tweet. Respect

The only Wilco song that really matters

Autumn, Algonquin Park, Tom Thomson 1916

PEANUT NOODLES

I noticed these works at Sotheby's yesterday, and this is a comprehensive account of the debate behind deaccessioning works in a museum's permanent collection: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

93 Candles 🎂 today for PETULA CLARK

“For him, the AI scam problem is ‘symbolic of how little these tech people give a fuck about actual music and the people who make it.’”

Still waiting for the official announcement about Who Goes Nazi, Art World Edition

Not really about either of these people but for 30+ years now whenever I see someone drag out the “bloody crossroads where literature and politics meet” line I’m like, yeah, I had a Trilling phase too but that shit’s old

MORE ENAMEL

Stumbled on some dress history delights in the South Asia gallery at the V&A….more to follow

One of my favorite things I saw while I was in Boston was the Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) exhibition at the MFA. As a flower, insect, and book enthusiast it was a dreamy experience. #RachelRuysch #hernaturalhistory

Embracing the robe lifestyle

Management group at 12:30

The only thing less welcome to hear from the cheery fellow working on the water meter in the basement than whistling is him suddenly saying, “Oh crap!”

Skill issue

America’s worst rock ‘n’ roll band ever, baby

Heck yeah, saw them on one of the other shows from that spring, some of the most memorable feedback of my life