Brian Harris took wonderful pictures for the Independent and others. I am sad to hear he is gone, and so happy I knew him and the other photographers of the Independent for a while. This is from Prague in 1989. I wasn’t there; Brian made me wish I had been and feel that maybe I was. lnkd.in/eqgeDpay

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Harold Edgerton, Cows and Flare at Stonehenge, 1944

Today is Brian O’Nolan’s (aka Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen et al) birthday.

Late afternoon. More yellows than reds.

“In other words, Ms Levin is cut like a diamond in the rough, along the finest in the business. Her disc, Blackbird & Ancestors [Aldilá Records] is further proof of this fact. Listening to it over and over again is like dancing with genius.” ❤️

“On the road to the French house, Lesley performed with a python in cabaret before graduating to managing a strip club in Old Compton St in 1979, where admission cost 50p and senior customers brought sandwiches to stay all day.” @thegentleauthor.bsky.social spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/04/l...

10 turkeys in the field. Never before have they seemed such a wholesome distraction.

This sucks. Steve’s was my just-round-the corner regular market for decades, & a neighbour of mine was still working there last time I saw him over the summer. How about city mandates for fair rents for affordable supermarkets? These are staples NYers need. www.brooklynpaper.com/park-slope-r...

Lovely interview with Alex Niemi, translator of THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, just up at @literaryhub.bsky.social . . . on "sonic suspense" and more! lithub.com/alex-niemi-o...

A new exhibition at the Mystic Seaport Museum reveals the oft-ignored ancestral knowledge and innovation that flow from Black and Indigenous communities’ sacred relationship to seafaring and artmaking.

absolutely fascinating piece from @smaldo.bsky.social today:

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Just a few days until October’s full moon! This year it falls on the 7th & is sometimes called ‘Gealach a' Bhruic’ in Gaelic - the ‘Badger Moon’. Folklore says under the moonlight, badgers would gather grass, getting their setts ready for winter. 🌕 #DailyDoseOfNature #WildlifePhotography #Nature

After listening to Jay Bernard sing ‘Songbook’ every time I read it now I sing it too. At 6:12 on the link below, but you really should listen to it all – they will give you goosebumps #NationalPoetryDay #poetry #poemoftheday #13deadnothingsaid #NewCrossMassacre youtu.be/_ANbixVTnU4?...

Have been spending time with a solitary ring-necked pheasant. What a splendid bird it is. It’s stayed in the same patch of brush for a week at least, and it tolerates my presence as long as I’m not too close. Yesterday, a bit of excitement as an otter dashed by, heading straight for the pond.

A great opportunity. Cannot speak highly enough of the Brooklyn Connections programs. www.bklynlibrary.org/cbh/educatio...

We Apologise for the Unintended Relevance of this Poem

A little time out.

Stephen King on Daphne du Maurier.

Perfect.

Not much time left to apply, but this sounds like an interesting opportunity for New York high school kids: www.noguchi.org/museum/educa...

Whiling away a bus ride looking at cats. If I could actually get a cat right now either of these would be divine.

Erick Adams calls it quits in NYC mayoral race. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/28/e...

Here at La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez in Loisaida #LES #NYC for permaculture, solar, music, community.

The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.

Got COVID vax at Walgreens on Broadway (Astoria). Mother with kids ahead of me. Walk-in or online appointment. Got same-day appointment. Very easy.

Hoxton, London - Dec' 2022

“Sometimes in London, I wake late in the night and hear a dog calling out to me on the wind, in the dark silent city of my dreaming.” @thegentleauthor.bsky.social spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/26/l...

A Northern Parula in Central Park. 💛

Please. Please. Move the World Cup to another country.

My favourite N train conductor makes the ride A+++. The master of subway rides. Jovial reprimands & detailed instructions re station exits & the status of connecting trains. Cannot abide the thought of trains without conductors.

1963 jazz tune "Totem Pole" by Lee Morgan. From Blue Note album The Sidewinder. Tenor sax solos by Joe Henderson. #Jazz #JazzMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=12sr...

1776: Fine young clover & fine turneps about the country.

The upside to not being raptured today is I get to spend more time on this planet with these guys. 🪶 #Raptors

Today we’re remembering @cmu.edu alumnus #AndyWarhol on his birthday! 🎂 Can you find him in this archival image? 🔍 Warhol (BFA 1949) attended Carnegie Tech in the late 1940s before leaving his hometown of Pittsburgh for New York City.

The #WKCR John Coltrane Birthday Broadcast is here again, playing through midnight. www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

“He was a Rag Merchant, whereas I am a Textile Consultant. I understand textiles, I know about suitings and have been dealing in them since 1946. Our different specialities complemented each other.” @thegentleauthor.bsky.social spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/23/m...

“Woman seated wearing a white cotton blouse and skirt with a dark fur stole around her shoulders” c. 1915 from the Missouri State Archives.

we just updated the story: it looks pretty certain that the Coney Island casino is also dead in the water. Councilmember Brannan, Sen. Scarcella-Spanton and BP Reynoso all said today they are rejecting it. (A fourth vote on the C.I. committee is an anti-casino activist.) = 4 of 6 votes are NO

Very cool. The fez was common men's headwear in the Cape Town Muslim community well into the middle of the 20th century. I'll be sending this to friends there.

Caught today’s @arsenalfc.bsky.social match with Spike Lee in Fort Greene (not a sentence I ever thought I'd get to write).

Raspados, late afternoon.

The dog flushed out a big fat groundhog from some shrubs at Socrates today. A surprise for me, & for the groundhog (!), but the dog (on a leash) could only stand & watch it bolting to the Costco side. Ever a dandy walker, even at 14, he bounced home with an even showier trot than ever. Love him.

The Midtown movie that changed NYC’s sidewalks and plazas is coming to theaters https://gothamist.com/news/the-midtown-movie-that-changed-nycs-sidewalks-and-plazas-is-coming-to-theaters

All 11 local elected officials have now been released and given summonses for obstructing, they are due back in federal court in November. Full story here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/d...

Love’s in Need of Love Today youtu.be/_ZditPOzJnM?...

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

1776: The ground full of water. Wagtails join with hirundines, & pursue an hawk high in the air: the former shew great command of wing on the occasion.

Let's close out this Tuesday with a Tricolored Heron. This one was seen going to roost just before sunset. 🪶