Physical Graffiti: A Collection of Found Objects from the Pre-Streaming Music Era (An Exhibition Catalog). Here, you’re gonna need headphones.

From December’s paid subscriber email: Holiday pageantry, urgency and rigor, and arbiters of generational wealth.

An open letter to the 20-something-year-old girl looking at paint samples at the home improvement superstore (because I’ve been there, and it turns out I have a lot to say).