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Three Scenes in Hibino Brooklyn
1 The actor sat in the corner. The manner in which he slumped against the window, one shoulder lower than the other, was reminiscent of a coat collar turned upward, hiding him from potential voyeurs along the street. Despite his celebrity and a face familiar enough to cause anyone a double-take, he had managed to… — read more
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Walk Without Rhythm
(Note: This originally appeared as a long-form post on my Micro.blog, in response to a photo and quote I posted before that. I am including the photo below for your convenience.) The quality that adorns all great literature is an eternal and irrevocable sense of freshness. Any individual, of any age, in any time of… — read more
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The Best Breakdown of Peter Gabriel’s “And Through The Wire” You’ve Ever Read
I am officially joining the Peter Gabriel fan club. It started last year when I came across Mercy Street and In Your Eyes. Then, a couple weeks ago, one of the needle drops in Marty Supreme played I Have The Touch and I was pleasantly surprised to know it was Peter Gabriel. So, last weekend,… — read more
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Resolutions For Rabble-Rousers: W.H. Auden’s Timeless Tips from “Under Which Lyre”
In 1946, the poet W.H. Auden was asked to craft and recite a poem for Harvard’s “Victory Commencement,” an event designed to celebrate and honor students, faculty, and leaders who had served in WWII, which had only recently ended and was not yet distant enough to allow the general public total peace of mind. Although relieved… — read more
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Patience Is (Still) A Virtue
When I was younger and just beginning my professional career, I remember a colleague whose reputation for uncouthness was, I believe, physically manifested in his hair, which sprang outward in all cardinal and intercardinal directions and had never once been introduced to the teeth of a decent comb. People would warn new employees that this… — read more
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📚 Quick Review on Scott Galloways’ Notes on Being A Man
Scott Galloway’s latest book, Notes On Being A Man, is not the commentary on masculinity that the marketing campaigns led me to believe it would be— it’s much better. It is not an unbearable or heavy-handed anthropological piece making universal laws about how all men and women should relate, nor is it a cocktail of… — read more
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1263 Refuted
Well, no, I have never seen a dust bunnybeing born. But I hear they come from the same placethat shoe laces come untied, or wherethe b in bomb isn’t silent, or maybe where those damn kids finally give the Rabbit his cereal. All I know is that I turned my chair to the wall for one… — read more
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Eternity (2025) | Film Review (Spoiler Free)
The first compliment that Eternity deserves is its coloring. It is, perhaps, the first film in recent memory to embrace a full spectrum of vibrancy without heavy-handed filtering or curation. The wardrobe, the set, the title cards— every color is allowed, and each in full radiance. From this perspective, it was a pleasure to watch… — read more
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What Big Tech’s “Gentleman’s Agreement” Means For Workers
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recently published a paper that studied whether common leadership, defined as two firms sharing executives or board directors, contributes to collusion. The verdict is a sure—albeit modest— “yes.” The data points for their research come from the unsealed files of numerous anti-trust instances in Silicon Valley in the late aughts… — read more
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Book Review: New Teeth by Simon Rich
Simon Rich might be the prince of simple writing. It is borderline supernatural the way that he can construct jokes, premises, plot-lines, and characters without a single shred of excess detail, yet never give the impression that he is underdelivering. New Teeth is a jubilee of laughter from start to finish and I have no… — read more
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