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A Storm Is Brewing

Yes, this video is having a moment. But the choreography is stunning. And you also can’t keep your eyes off of Yung Lean in the center of, er, the storm. No notes.

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Secret Bootleg Nirvana

Chicago native Aadam Jacobs recorded his first concert in 1984 on something similar to a Dictaphone. He doesn’t remember the device, or the concert, for that matter. So over the 40+ years since then, he has continued to record concerts of all shapes and sizes from his home base in the Chicagoland area: On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder…

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Dark Side of the Moon

via NASA Just a stunning photo from the Artimis II mission of the moon eclipsing the sun. No notes. Take a few minutes to check out the rest of the photos (on their Flickr account no less. Blast from the past!) from the mission. Some really incredible shots including the below. via NASA

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A 3 HR Robbery Night

Photo Credit: LA Angels via Kayleigh K This absolutely incredible photo taken (by Kayleigh K) moments after LA Angels Right Fielder Jo Adell robbed a *third* home run of the night off of the bats of the Seattle Mariners. You can see all three of the catches in the below video. There are several incredible things going on here. First of all, the game had very few runs, ending in a 1-0 victory…

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Vibe Coding With Claude

Over the past few weeks, I have been doing a lot of clean up and updates to this site, mostly with the help of Claude – my new AI friend (LOL). Over this period, I have updated the site with a new theme that feels much faster, fixed several little bugs and details that have bothered me for a while, added “NEW” and “UPDATED” flags for images that have been updated/added to the Wallpaper galleries,…

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NYC In The Rain

Just a random photo I took on a commute home from NYC in early March. Photo is looking north on 6th Avenue at Broome Street in Tribeca.

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Michael Stipe Took The Stage

Last night at Brooklyn Steel, a concert venue in the Williamsburg section of the NYC borough, Michael Stipe – former lead singer of R.E.M. (one of my favorite bands) – took the stage with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy to sing “These Days” and “The Great Beyond”. This was the first time he has sung these songs on stage in about 18 years. I happened to be at this show with friends – all of us…

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The Heartbeat of St. Mark's Place

Fun story in today’s NY Times about Charles FitzGerald, the so called landlord of Greenwich Village’s St. Marks’s Place, the street that has and will hopefully continue to be the beating heart of the East Village’s counterculture vibe: Mr. FitzGerald, strong-jawed and sarcastic, said by his own account that he was not especially good at running the finances, which often created stress for his…

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Sega Founder Has Died

Sadly, David Rosen, the founder of SEGA has died. However, check out his obit in the NY Times and the lead header image/gif which is a gif of Bare Knuckle II. It is fantastic! The obit is also very much worth the read – Mr. Rosen was so far ahead of his time! From the obit: During the 1990s, Genesis was seemingly everywhere: in commercials during the MTV Video Music Awards; on an episode of…

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The Penn Station Albatross

The old Pennsylvania Station in NYC has always been a fascinating topic for me. I wish I could have seen the grandeur of that building when it was vibrant and active. Imagine the beauty of today’s Grand Central Station in Midtown, only on steroids. From what I have been told, the scale of the old Pennsylvania Station was breathtaking. If Pennsylvania Station had survived through to today, I could…

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News Photos of the Year

Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty via The Atlantic The above photo – haunting, devastating and yet beautiful all at the same time – from the Eaton Fires in Southern California in January, 2025. This and others can be found in the Top 25 News Photos from The Atlantic. Kinda surprised the collection didn’t include a screenshot of “Signalgate” chat that Jeff Goldberg was included in.

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Incredible Dakota Apartment Hits The Market

An absolutely insane apartment hit the market on October 15th in NYC’s legendary “The Dakota” apartment building on Central Park West on the Upper West Side. It is the first time this unit has been on the market in 40+ years. The apartment is a 3 bedroom, 4.5 bathroom unit with 13.5 foot ceilings, with most of the unit overlooking Central Park. Take a look at the listing here – the place is…

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Quick Update - Wallpapers

Last weekend I finished updating all the Wallpapers for the English, Scottish and European leagues featured on the site, reflecting the club kit designs for the 25-26 season. My goal is always to try to get them done before the start of the season in England/Europe however I am finding that harder and harder to achieve with sheer volume of items to update coupled with the the fact that the kit…

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Many English Soccer Kit Wallpapers Updated

I’ve updated the English Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two desktop wallpaper collections/tabs for 2025-26. Unbelievably, this is the 10th year that I have done this. It stated back then because I was not happy with the different wallpaper designs/options for the teams that I support. In addition, I really liked the unique designs that appeared on different team uniforms/kits…

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All The Words on NYC Signage

An absolutely spectacular project from The Pudding. They basically did a text/word/phrase scan of all the public Google Maps images of the five boroughs of NYC to find out what were the most used words and phrases in the city. And the results are incredible. The scale of the data is immense: over 8 million Google Street View images (from the past 18 years) and 138 million identified snippets of…

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Top Movies of the 21st Century

Nice and relatively well edited/selected list of the Top 100 Movies of the 21st Century from the NY Times. As you can see from the above image, I am proud to report that as of today, I’ve seen 62 of these fine feature films. For what it is worth, there are several of the remaining 38 that are on my ‘to watch’ list which would have brought that total up a bit higher.

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May The Schwartz Be With You

The ageless wonder Mel Brooks announced that they are making “Spaceballs 2” with a pretty funny reveal video. The original is a hilarious spoof of the Star Wars universe, featuring such characters as Yogurt, Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz and such classic cheesy humor lines like “May the Schwartz be with you.”, “She gives great helmet.”, and “Prepare ship for ludicrous speed!” to name a few. If…

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