Keita Morimoto, β€œCrossroad” (2025), acrylic and oil on linenΒ 

Evelyn Waugh, from The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold:

His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz β€” everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom. There was a phrase in the thirties: β€œIt is later than you think,” which was designed to cause uneasiness. It was never later than Mr. Pinfold thought.

I wrote about Perfect Days last year, but this reflection by my friend Noah Millman is a deeper dive.

I wrote about the long slow process of returning to vinyl records.

Another Houston treasure: the Beer Can House

The Electric Ladyland car, from the Houston Art Car Parade

I wrote about green tea and mescaline β€” and other ways of opening doors to the demonic.