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I'm supposed to sleep tonight? This time tomorrow they'll be gone again.

"That was the robot, wasn't it?" Her line readings are ridiculous and have been since she was a kid.

Ana, just turned 31, publicly came out as bi today. Not a big surprise. I know she likes guys, but she seems to love kissing Paula on stage. ❤️

No. As a kid I adored her more than Sophia and Gina, although I now know that Sophia was a more substantial actress.

Okay, I have Richmond and restaurants booked.

I've seen off the brothers -- how many people can come down sick with some kind of brain fever in one novel? Read an old piece on it by Somerset Maughan who calls out all its manifold faults but still regards it as a great masterpiece. True enough. Middlemarch is different in every way except length, so I am taking a break by re-reading The Midnight Bell, the first volume of Patrick Hamilton's 20,000 Streets Under the Sky trilogy. Hamilton is best known for his stage thrillers, and the movies based on them, Rope and Gas Light. In his novels, however, he is just one of the funniest writers there is, even when his stories are kind of sad as they usually are. This is also a great London novel; Hamilton knows the West End and its pubs intimately. I think I've read almost all his novels twice, Slaves of Solitude more than that.

They were at Miss Lily's today. So near.

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Here they come.

Time for Drew Nieporent's memoir: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/dining/drew-nieporent-book-nobu.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare I still want to read McNally's but it has been hard to get from my library and I don't really need to own a copy.

Worth looking at some interviews with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about working with him, both of them some years younger.

Heathrow Airport (which got my email address because I used their wifi this summer) has sent me a free guide to...New York!

Member previews for the big new Man Ray exhibit, "When Objects Dream," at the Met. I don't know exactly how the Met changed the way it presents these big shows, but it's another rambling one where you're never quite sure which room to enter next. The main focus is Ray's experimental work with forms of photography, especially the so-called "rayographs." Perversely, I like his paintings better and this is the first time I've seen so many gathered together. "Ministry," a show at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, by Joyce McDonald is really worth seeing. Serene, joyful, hopeful: many small clay figures of heartbreaking beauty. And it's free.

Nearly done with the Karamazov brats, but jeez he could have cut Mitya's endless blathering.

I didn't know Guy Fieri had a chicken tenders outlet on 42nd Street. It's called Chicken Guy (geddit?). And offers "great frickin' chicken." Also, "lots of fuckin' cluckin.'" Okay, I made the last bit up.

Ego leaving SNL ☹️

Just watched the season opener. Fabulous. My additional comment is probably old news to anyone following Selena on social media, but wow. She has been consistently a tremendous comedic actor, but in previous seasons her appearance was kind of dramatically changed by serious health issues and medications. Hey, she's back. Well done.

Barcelona now has smashburgers.

Spotify seems fine. I was regretting abandoning my Napster playlists, but so much music has been pulled by the labels most of them were empty anyway.

Good idea, but I need to go shopping.

Nice harmonies. Many glimpses in the video of things worth watching at greater length like Ana arm-wrestling some huge guy. "hello this is hinds and we did a studio version of our cover of "girl, so confusing" in order to celebrate 1 year since Viva Hinds was released. everything about this song resonates with us. we have been a girl band for four albums now, more than a decade. a decade in a world that tries to put girls against each other, comparing everything, our bodies, our songs, our way of talking and existing. making it almost impossible to not feel threatened and constantly insecure. when this song and the feature with Lorde was released, it made history for music and for women. this is our take on it. we're still touring non stop but we're also trying to write during these days.anyway we hope you like it . such a great tune.

Went to an event this evening, made no plans for food, had some kielbasa in the fridge. Could I just eat it with some bread and salad? No, had to slice it and sear it and make little cucumber pedestals, because who wouldn't?

It's going to be the CharliXCXCXVII cover. Video tomorrow morning.

Certainly see it in London, but it had already happened there nine years ago.

The only good thing, Gerry & The Pacemakers supporting them. But I have no memory; my parents insisted we were there and it was a local venue.