dramatic skies over the '92 theater This weekend I went back to Middletown, Connecticut to visit my cousin for family weekend at Wesleyan, and was treated to a most idyllic taste of autumn. I've always loved fall in the northeast (my favorite season, no contest) but having lived in LA for two decades now, it's become a rare treat. Another rare treat was being able to spend the day with my two cousins Franny and Finn and we had a great time walking around campus and sharing fu

next-gen Acela arriving at 30th st station in Philadelphia I'm on my way to Connecticut to visit my cousin Finn at Wesleyan (my alma mater) for Family Weekend and decided to splurge on the new next gen acela because I wanted to experience a high tech French-made train running on the northeast corridor. I know how bougie and entitled this sounds, but these days I experience train travel more internationally than I do domestically. I wanted to see if this train would have some

I came to visit my family in Philly today and today's outings included a visit to the new Calder Gardens , dedicated to the greatest hanging mobile sculptor of all time and the new Jordan Store , dedicated to the greatest basketball player of all time. Both were artists who worked in space and time, and I visited these temples to their achievements back to back with my parents. Here's a little video comparison of the two spaces:

I've loved taking photos since I was a kid and my grandfather Harold gave me a tiny "spy camera" from Sharper Image (was going to say RIP, but it looks like it's still around). I'm not sure if it was actually this mini-shot, but it was something similar, and I loved that I could keep it in my pocket. I also loved that 110 film was so easy to load , I was not then, nor am I now what you might call a "technically adept" person or someone you'd describe as "good with his hands.

The worse the world gets , the more I devote myself to following basketball. As the NBA opens its '25-'26 season tonight I've been thinking about my lifelong Sixers fandom. For better or worse, I've been a 76ers fan for as long as I can remember. I love how my friend Jon Forstein summarized my professional and personal identity when I spoke to his video production class earlier this year. One of my first Sixers fan memories was falling asleep to a game on the radio and cryi