This is going to sound wild but bear with me. You should go to midtown for cheap and sharp short haircuts. The secret is to go to places that survive off the pre-job interview crowd.
Nov 7, 2024
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Where can I get a haircut in NYC where they don't just give me the 'short on sides long on top' special? I have medium length curly hair.
Nov 7, 2023
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One more to round out the trifecta of haircut-related recs.
I live in New York, but don’t have a hair stylist there (mostly because $ but also I like to build up a relationship with someone). I do, however, regularly see hair stylists when I’m in Cambridge, Oakland, and London (places I’ve formerly lived or spent a lot of time in). Less expensive, more to chit chat about and makes travel all the more transformative to have it to be the only mode where your appearance gets altered.
Mar 22, 2024
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Like a real one, not one of those Mumford and sons looking ass places.
Jan 23, 2024
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No screen Sundays. If I want to listen to music its CDs or radio. If I want to watch a movie, no I don’t. If I want to see a friend, I will make plans with them on Friday or Saturday to meet up. As a result, I read more, write more, and sit with questions like “did Citizen Kane‘s 50 year winning streak in the Sight and Sound critics choice survey end in 2012 or 2022? When did Stephen Merritt come out? Whats the etymology of Whitsun?“
This is something that I have practiced off and on for many years but I’ve been doing it every week since December and I love the way that it just allows me one day of true freedom and rest.
Jan 22, 2025
Mar 3, 2025
My calendar this year has 52 of these week at a glance pages but I don’t think that way. So, I've been inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delighs to start recording the little moments and sensations that bring me joy throughout the day. An analog pi.fyi, if you will.
heres some of what I have so far:
- Waking up to the sound of my upstairs neighbor‘s footstep. It sounded nostalgic. Felt like company.
- Strawberry jam
- feeling tender for strangers: their lips, nail colors, their small wrists. Thinking of all the lives we hold gently.
- A young girl bought an LP at the bookstore just before I left. She stroked its cover with love
- Green tiles —the mint shade always makes me think of Jancie
- Charlie’s little bop and punch dancing to some German language punk
- lunch with Katherine, curry Brussels sprouts
- small talk at the photo studio. The photographer's brother was named after their dad, stole his identity, bought jet skis.
Jan 13, 2025