Thomas
@thomaslstrickland
aspiring cineaste, bitter southerner, non-native new yorker // experience designer/strategist & product designer/manager & user researcher also, abolish 🧊, thank you.
:: freeze frame:: Waylon voiceover: “Them Ithaca boys sure are in trouble now.”
Thank you, Sam Neill, for showing me at an early age that Presidents can rarely ever be trusted.
Yeah, but there’s something so perfectly mid-century about those first Peanuts comics, everybody so round and the lines so sharp.
Next up in our recommended The Prisoner viewing order was “Chimes of Big Ben,” not just a ripping yarn involving very productive stone tools, abstract art, and advanced shipping logistics, but also Leo McKern’s wonderful Number Two.
Rewatching The Prisoner on @criterion.bsky.social and it’s a shame we get only one episode with Peter Wyngarde’s 1967-as-hell Number Two.
You know what’s great? When your neighbor @angus.bsky.social messages the group chat and says he and @grammar-girl.bsky.social are watching the Tall Ships on the Hudson from Riverside Park, and then you and @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social just go watch those Tall Ships like proper UWSiders do. ⛵️
Me: Ha! A guy named Marx is running for governor of Colorado. That’s funny. Me checking Wikipedia: Wait, what…?
And look, if you absolutely must read an unhinged memoir entitled “Communion,” Whitley Strieber has had you covered since 1987.
The NY Post, because your racist uncle has to get his unhinged email forwards from somewhere.
George Conway getting outdone for NY-12 by over 1000 votes by Nina Schwalbe — a damn good candidate who I hope comes back — is so satisfying.
Everybody has a plan [to look good in a Chotiner interview] until they get punched in the face [by a Chotiner interview].
We took so many photos of paintings in Florence last December, it’s hard to pick a favorite… but it might be this Botticelli.
If I was President, I’d put Truman’s Douglas VC-118 back into service because what’s more presidential than a giant angry bird face on Air Force One?