Friday Links
Reading
A fun look into the rebranding of The New York Times R&D Department
It’s Official: We OD’d on the Internet
From Sei Shonagon’s Infuriating Things…
A guest who arrives when you have something urgent to do, and stays talking for ages.
It’s also quite disgusting to witness men getting noisy and boisterous in their cups, groping round inside their mouth with a finger or wiping their whiskers if they have them, and forcing the sake cup on others.
I also really hate the way some people go about envying others, bemoaning their own lot in life, demanding to be let in on every trivial little thing, being venomous about someone who won’t tell them what they want to know, and passing on their own dramatized version of some snippet of rumour they’ve heard, while making out that they knew it all along.
A dog that discovers a clandestine lover as he comes creeping in, and barks.
You’ve just settled sleepily into bed when a mosquito announces itself with that thin little wail, and starts flying round your face. It’s horrible how you can feel the soft wind of its tiny wings.
People who go about in a carriage with squeaky wheels are very irritating. It makes you wonder irately if they’re deaf.
Someone who butts in when you’re talking and smugly provides the ending herself. Indeed anyone who butts in, be they child or adult, is most infuriating.
And I hate people who don’t close a door that they’ve opened to go in or out.
Listening
Message of Love - The Pretenders. A perfect song
Rostam covering a Clash classic
Wearing
I said back in April that the Merrill Jungle Moc will get it’s due time in the new decade. Awake NY are releasing their own spin on the comfy shoe
Very big fan of these corduroy hats from Drake’s
The Banana Republic Comeback Has Begun!
Everything Else
New Haven, Cape Breton Island, Isabel McLaughlin, 1941