Best day the Hudson was covered in ice and the city looked like a faraway dream: January 9, 2018.
Best political slogan from the 1970s.
The best upper Manhattan park in winter: Fort Tryon Park (Washington Heights).
Best ‘band photo’ of three cats: Elektra, Zephyr, and Clio.
Best Visconti movie about a gay Bavarian king: Ludwig.
Best most underrated birds that symbolize life in the modern era (with proximity to a new gay bar): the circling pigeons of 159th Street and Broadway, just above 'Boxers'.
Best park on November 1, 2018: Fort Tryon Park.
Most curious cat: Zephyr.
Most least curious cat: Elektra.
Most beautiful day for a snowstorm: April 2, 2018 (Monday).
Best day to run 26.2 miles through Boston in a nor’easter: April 16, 2018.
Hottest gay statue: this one by Rodin in Philadelphia :)
Best ‘cat in the campanula’: Clio.
Best reason to ‘double down’ on your dislike of empty superhero movies and instead watch emotionally resonant literary adaptations that may not be ‘perfect’ but are beautifully shot and acted and remind us how boring and utilitarian so much of the English language has become (via commerce): My Brilliant Friend (HBO).
Cutest cat couple: Dante and Zephyr.
Best remnant of a not-too-distant but still pretty far away creative past that Jennifer found in her garage and texted a few weeks ago: this shot of Saturnine circa 1996.
The best cat + succulents in a picture: Elektra and potted succulents, July 6, 2018.
Best path through a heather garden lined with flowering azaleas in 2018: Fort Tryon Park.
Best trees to remind you of hallucinogenic experiences from your youth, and specifically that one time in a field not far from Stonehenge: the elms of Fort Tryon Park.
Best Frank Lloyd Wright reproduction framed by a Japanese maple (Acer Palmatum ‘Elizabeth’) and a cold-hardy camellia.
Best television secretly about the ancient gods and the people who entertain them: Terrace House.
Best bridge: The GW.
Best reason to hope: today the light will last a little longer than yesterday :)
Best reason to keep reading this blog: I’m taking a short break but will be back on January 12th, 2019 to resume regularly scheduled posts about GoT (jk) and cats galloping across the hibernal tundra.