Wander Report - 11.1.24 * Started snowing on my LES tour the other day. I love the sound of car tires on a wet road. You can't hear it as well when it rains. * This tour was small: a couple from Union City and a family from

* "For mortals, nothing is worse than wandering." - Odysseus. * Odysseus wasn't wandering, he was lost. Trying to get home. Surviving off the land. He was outcast - barely a NOMAD. But wandering is an outbound game. It's something you do moving away from familiar

Wander Report 12.30.23 Tired of not writing and I don't have enough time to go deep so I'm going to experiment with pumping out these short little bullet-pointed wander reports from my rangings around the city. * I struggle to take pictures of people. Feel

Looking Through the Russian Mirror This video was produced by Ilya Varlamov, a technically skilled, brave, and often charismatic Moscovite who travels out into the hinterlands of his country to see what's there. While I appreciate that he's capturing and sharing this footage, much might be

Order & Chaos at Columbus Circle Fuck I can't get a ticket to the 70mm IMAX Oppenheimer at Lincoln Square. Every seat of every screening is sold out. The massive physical film literally decays every time they screen it. Several times I check late at night, squinting at

There are things we can't see until we've left and come back time and time again. 20 years ago I was a bike messenger in Boston, and the summer before I moved to DC, I took a room in a house just north of Harvard Square.