I saw Aunty Donna at The Beacon last night. An incredible fever dream show. They pulled off the hat trick of having an incredibly tight show, while feeling loose and comfortable. Extremely confident. There was plenty of moments of genuine surprise and improvisation from the cast. Wonderful to see, and of course, hilarious.

Sally Hawkins is so, so good. She gives the biggest feel bad toxic positivity performance I've maybe ever seen, and somehow you're still sort of rooting for her. Also, features one of the gnarliest gore scenes that had my roommates and I crawling up the couch. A+.

Finally got around to seeing this. Wha a romp. Beat window smashing in recent memory.

Local Astoria politics: Tiffany Cabán’s legislative proposal to Curb Deadly NYPD Car Chases is a no brainer. As someone who lives in the neighborhood and has been to the community meetings, these chases are awful. No one needs to die because someone else committed a nonviolent crime. The police should be held accountable. 🇺🇸🏙️

What a great modern horror movie.

Happy Halloween 🎃

I voted early today, and got myself that sweet sweet Halloween sticker, along with supporting a mayor I’m actually excited about. Let’s go Mamdani! 🌇🇺🇸

Ali Alkhatib: Defining AI.

I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.

I tend to agree—what else could be so valuable to all these billionaires that would be worth sinking unprecedented amounts of cash into with no clear path to profitability? 💽

As if you needed another reason to not take a yellow cab. Taxi TV Is MAGA Now. 🇺🇸

This movie happened.

I was lucky enough to see The Best Show’s live 25th anniversary show in Brooklyn last week. Amazing to see Tom firing on all cylinders, all the big Wurster characters, Mike’s corner, and just feel the weight of all that history. Oh, and it was non-stop funny.

Astoria loves Lions.

A neighborhood flower.

I saw John Carpenter at the knockdown center last night. Really fun show, and we were on the street before 10:30pm! ❤️🎵👴

I took a photo I only kind of liked. Something was missing. Turns out? Mirror.

I’ve been digging into some new music this month. And by new music, I mean there’s also a bunch of stuff from a few years ago, and some of that is incredibly generous with the word … Read more

Playing with desaturation.

This movie rules. Saw it in vista vision and only the front row was left. Had a great time but my neck hurts.

Retsina doesn’t always sit in the toy box, but when she does, she drinks Dos Equis. 🐈

A good rain.

Playing with hyper saturation at the intersection of industrial and green space, in Astoria.

I culled a lot of books off my reading list, and added books I already own. The list is now longer.

I donated some shorts to the local thrift store, and walked out with Coffee and Cigarettes and Season 4 of The Simpsons on DVD, and the Choose Your Own Adventure Tattoo of Death. Not bad.

The proposed CSS reading-flow property seems very useful—it’s challenging to create complex layouts that also have good reading order for screen readers, and that usually results in jumping through markup hoops. I’m hopeful reading flow would make those non-issues. 💽

I actually like a lot of the new Liquid Glass apple redesign, but the expected readability issues are very much present. 💽