TIL that Cogsworth in “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) is the same actor who narrated “New York: A Documentary Film” and I’m losing it

Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street has a message for riders: the MetroCard is retiring and going in the trash on December 31st! It's time to tap and ride—listen out for his station announcements next time you're taking the subway 🚇

*crumbles into dust*

It only Monday morning

The @mta.info has different farewell to the metrocard collaborations. Did we get a Carvel metrocard ice cream cake for our 2yo's birthday? Yes, yes we did!

the entire exchange about dating between Tom Hanks and Rob Reiner in “Sleepless in Seattle” is just so wonderful, and this scene in particular about cute butts is so funny. “Are we grading on a curve?”

the good that you do persists in this world

This is one of those times when all of the bad news just sucks the air out of your lungs.

the small, unimportant thing that I am unreasonably irritated about lately is that every podcast is suddenly a video podcast. I can’t explain why but it annoys me!

hello BlueSky I made you an MTA gift guide

I know 2025 has been a gnarly year because I have been consumed by the urge to get bangs before it ends

Clearly I did not play “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” enough at the one bar near work that has a TouchTunes jukebox

this reminds me of how a bar near me, which is otherwise perfect, had a burger on its menu for a long time called the “ladies’ burger” because it had one patty rather than two, and it made me want to scream every time I saw it

I have seen your jokes about trans trains and they have made me giggle

my possibly unpopular opinion is that this is what we get for elevating personal essays to “serious” writing, boring solipsism masked as ~ literature ~

The crime; the criminal

TIL that Wilma does not mind being outfitted in festive attire

someone graffitied the D. Boon bench in Fort Greene Park but is it something he would’ve found funny???

RETVRN to when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles went by Michelangelo an Donatello

thinking of her today

Time for the annual tradition of texting with my sister about how we don’t recognize most of the performers at the Thanksgiving Day Parade

why is this in the NYT Cooking newsletter, of all places!!!!!

I simply hope to live my life in such a way that Isaac Chotiner will never have a reason to ask me a single question

woke up early and logged on to this app and

well *I* got two tattoos today! (the shrimp and olive skewer are new)

Why

A design hero, Paul Rand, made Christmas cards for his clients & this box set brings together some of the best in faithful reproductions. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/pau...

There is an odd comfort in going to a bodega you haven’t been to in forever and the ATM is in the exact spot you remember from many years before

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

This is very good and also very depressing

Is this the most “it only Tuesday” ever? theonion.com/it-only-tues...

I am trying to work on my damn handiwork and not look at my phone and yet here I am glued to the timeline because my BRAIN IS BROKEN

- Surprise! Surprise! - Yaffa Cafe and Around the Clock Diner - Dojo - Ricky’s - using the Village Voice to look for apartments/jobs - Sitting in McCarren Park with giant styrofoam cups of beer from the Turkey’s Nest + watching hipster kickball - Mousey Brown for hipster haircuts

starting to think that top editors working in journalism these days are not good at editing

This piece led to a small cohort of MTA employees discussing what counts as a subway movie, which is making my Monday better www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I’m not saying irony is dead or must die or anything, but maybe ironic detachment isn’t the voice to use when writing about a vast network of powerful men who have enacted or enabled terrible abuses against vulnerable people for many years

someone buy this for me

Jarvis Cocker’s Good Pop, Bad Pop and Jim Dwyer’s Subway Lives (inside me there are two wolves)

I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.

everything else aside, stop letting 32-year-olds write memoirs

if you need a very good album to listen to today, may I recommend this youtube.com/playlist?lis...

starting with “This Is Hardcore” is a Choice and I love it

this is very good news!

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

must even an interest in maritime disasters be gendered

I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮

I share this every November 10, this painting was done by my grandfather and now resides in my home. #edmundfitzgerald