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Things I like, part one

The sky just before the sun rises Fast lifts (elevators) Oatmeal cookies Jean-Luc Godard’s movies The Orion nebula Bookshelves that are only half full Sparsely furnished rooms A day without social media Bach’s Goldberg Variations (Gould) Making lists Things I Dislike War Durians The Saturday NYT crossword Misplaced fog Those who park their car so that they occupy two spaces Restaurants that serve food curiously quickly (not fast-food) Movies > 3.5 hours Movies < 1.5 hours Discovering I didn’t align...

Negative Capability

On Keats's concept of negative capability; its primary source included

American Wealth Pizza

A pizza graphic representing how many slices of pie Americans are getting.

Artist Anthony Triano

New Jersey Artist and Sculptor Anthony Triano (1928-97)

BBC 3-hour David Attenborough Nature Feature

Three hours of incredible best-of BBC David Attenborough Nature features.

On the ending of Colbert's Late Night

CBS caved, law firms caved, Tech giants caved. Colbert instead has the entire CBS building sucked into a green vortex, shrunk, and put into a snow globe

I tramp a perpetual journey (Whitman)

Section 46, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

I'm applying for my part of the Trump Slush Fund

It’s time to stake a claim in the new $1.776 billion slush fund for those targeted unfairly by the government. I will accept nothing less than $5 million for: the fact that every day I have to be living with the shame of being an American; that my subscription to media outlets I had formerly enjoyed now are brim full with the evil committed by a salacious regime only moderately acquainted with the Constitution or the nation’s history; that their...

Tolstoy Diary Entry

Tolstoy diary entry as a young man

Time is Joy (“El tiempo es alegría”)

Pablo Neruda poem.

Perfect Days

The film follows the routine life of Hirayama, who cleans public restrooms and during his breaks, relaxes by having a bite to eat on a park bench and taking photos of the sun shining through the leaves above. I have since learned that the word in Japanese for the appreciation of sunlight coming through a canopy of leaves overhead is komorebi (木漏れ日). I have a trove of photos like that, so it should have its own word. I also learned...

Himeji Castle

Himeji Castle is located in Himeji, about 55km west of Kobe. It is the largest surviving feudal castle complex in Japan.