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Life and death at Balthazar

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Keith McNally

On appreciating a problematic follow.

on the restaurateur’s chaotic Instagram.

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Keith McNally's wonderful, horrible, messy Instagram

Potato house

The Airbnb afterlife of the world's largest spud.

on the questionable liminality of a chunk of vernacular fiberglass architecture in Idaho.

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Paul Newman

Horny for dead guy Twitter is the best Twitter. 

on the universality of sexy dead Paul Newman, even in the internet’s most fraught environments. 

Paul Newman’s sexy social media afterlife

Coping with things

It's easier to mourn a front yard than an entire lifestyle. 

on data storage, mid-century architecture and object-dependence.

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"Beautiful again, and interesting, and modern."

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The Mad Men rewatch

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What's in a face?

on Elsa Peretti, Anouk Aimée and YouTube.

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My women

Fran Lebowitz in Pretend It's a City, 2021. (Netflix)

Pretend Its A City 

On Fran Lebowitz and power in media.

on New York bohemianism, money, and chasing your own narrative.

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Pretend it's a living

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