I'm shopping for a tuxedo and the ad bots have noticed, which means that some of the pages I visit look like a maitre-d's convention

Hi Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻, please contribute to an important discussion here in our house: What’s the big piece of artwork over your shoulder tonight on MSNBC? Black background, horizontal form, sort of a bouquet image, maybe mother-of-pearl or shell?

I really enjoyed this ode to two hard, ephemeral industries all about creativity and care.

The word was NUMBAT.
I repeat: NUMBAT.
I object.

Land of my people

'The actors’ relationship to all this furniture is lackluster, normative; they give a lot of their energy away to chairs.' Sarah Holdren expertly diagnoses the malaise of the latest 'Uncle Vanya' revival.vulture.com/article/uncle-…

This describes every trial, ever.

HOLY SHIT
MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON

Opening statements in the Trump criminal trial, sketched by Isabelle Brourman for New York Magazine:

I’m *so* going to be reading this.

First-rate bit of theater criticism by Jackson McHenry here, reviewing a highly commercial entertainment on its own terms

Had so much fun working on this.

THEY'RE SUCH A GOOD BAND
vulture.com/article/theate…

👇🥹👇

Spotted by Shawn McCreesh in our office-building elevator just now: My @curbed @nymag story from yesterday has made it onto the Captivate news feed.

Can’t say I don’t commit to my shtick: I wrote a brief profile of a subway turnstile, the (probably) single busiest one in New York.

curbed.com/article/busies…

Such an oddly phrased sales pitch. Reverse psychology? Just bad with words?

“That’s the thing about dreamers. By definition, the things they dream of do not yet exist, which means that we’re destined to be confounded by them at first…” — Bilge Ebiri vulture.com/article/is-fra…

Here’s tad friend in 1995, newly digitized: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

I wrote about people using New York City exactly as intended. thecut.com/article/daniel…