📷 The Empire State Building from Midtown Manhattan, 4:25pm.

Taken for the Micro.blog A Day in the Life Photo Challenge.

📷 McGraw-Hill at sunset.

📷 Hudson Yards

📷 Manhattan sunset.

📷 The Chrysler Building from Lexington Avenue/52nd St.

There is a direct correlation between how popular a restaurant is and how passive-aggressive their signage can be. I love the ‘ENJOY’ afterthought.

📷 All Quiet on the Western Front

📷 Wild raccoon in Central Park. Never seen one before. Looked a bit tentative as I jogged past it; I wasn’t sure whether it would run at me or run away.

🚴‍♂️ Shocked to hear about Christina Mackenzie’s hit-and-run accident that has left her with a broken pelvis. I’ve had some very close passes in the past and try to ‘take the lane’ in anticipation; having a vehicle sneak by you is terrifying. Katie Kookaburra talks about near misses in her latest video.

Wishing Christina a very swift recovery.

This Twitter thread is the best simple-language explainer I’ve seen of the events of the past week in the UK economy.

What’s just happened to the UK economy? A thread on how we got here, and what’s next for Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng… 1/

— Joe Mayes (@Joe_Mayes) September 28, 2022

📚 So pleased that Marie Fredriksson’s biography is finally getting an English language release next year. Her bravery to keep making music and playing live shows whilst dealing with the effects of brain cancer was incredible. I’ve ordered a copy and can’t wait to read it.

📷 Empire State.

📷 New York, old and new.

📷 I think I might have accidentally ended up on NBC on my way to work on Wednesday morning.

📚 Finished reading George Michael’s Faith by Matthew Horton. What a treat to dive into the details of the album. Michael seems doomed to be underrated by some because of the boy-band image of Wham!, but he and his work were incredible. Such versatility and dedication.

📚 Finished reading Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck. I had been looking forward to this one, but found myself less in love with it than when I read it as a teenager. Reading about the ‘Cheerleaders’ felt even more shocking than it did to me back then.

📷 Central Park sunrise.

📷 Thanks to the staff member at Rough Trade in NYC who responded to my question of “Where’s good to hear some live music in the city?” with a handwritten list on a sticky note.

📷 Reflections