PHOTO DUMP (11-25)
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November 30, 2025
A collection of photos taken during the past month by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn. Also see the SCREENSHOTS series; and see HILOBROW’s Instagram feed.
Sam and Kayla at St. Paul’s Can-Can Wonderland. They’d just had an offer on a cute, cozy house in the Cherokee Heights neighborhood accepted; during our visit Susan and I were able to attend the inspection. The newlyweds moved in over Thanksgiving. A fun new chapter in their life together! Not pictured: Sam and Kayla’s friends (and ours too) Henry and Hayley.
Before she closed up for the winter, we spent an evening playing Texas Hold ’Em, and a Mad Magazine board game (rescued from the dump), at Annie Nocenti’s place in Marbletown. Not pictured: Lucy Sante, Mimi Lipson.
Susan and I are supporters of the Mental Health Justice Project, a new nonprofit cofounded by my brother Patrick and Mala Rafik. We scored this MHJP swag with Pat during a trip to Boston visiting my mother. Whose dear friends Sib and Judy Wright, with whom Patrick and I lived communally when we were young, came along too. That’s Judy between Mom and Susan.
The GIVE IT UP team (Karlie, Bridget, Tommy, Susan, and I) recently started a Kingston Noticing Club. We’re following “savor of the month” prompts — in this case, MYSTERIES ARE EVERYWHERE — issued by Noticer-in-Chief Rob Walker. At a meeting attended by special guest Robyn Hager, we shared our responses. I made a painting of the mysterious elevator signage at my new dentist’s office.
I have attended a couple of fun salons at Julian Richards’ clubhouse in Kingston’s Rondout. In this frame from a video by Will Hogue, you can glimpse Kerry Buchman (a longtime friend of Mimi’s) and Jonathan Berman. We performed Pina Bausch’s synchronized “Nelkin Line” as we processed through the Rondout from the waterfront to Julian’s friendsgiving party. Not pictured: Susan, Karlie, other Nelkin Line-ers.
Having suffered another stroke, Mom passed away peacefully the day before Thanksgiving. Here’s Patrick and his son Emmett performing a concert at her bedside. (I sang along, and on “Bye Bye Love” strummed the ukulele.) Pat, who has always loved compiling a set list, shared this one with me later:
So Lonely — Police
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door — Bob Dylan
Married with Children (Emmett instrumental) — Oasis
Let It Be — Beatles
Luckiest Man — Wood Bros.
Bye Bye Love — Everly Bros.
Time of Your Life — Green Day
Wild Horses — Rolling Stones
Members of my family have also spent a significant amount of time, in recent days, reacquainting themselves with the 1972 soundtrack from The Harder They Come. It was one of my mother’s favorite records.
Max playing Magic with two of his seven young cousins, all of whom live in a Jamaica Plain triple-decker. Also: Susan meeting the family’s youngest member, Lucy. Spending Thanksgiving with Patrick’s family (plus Mala Rafik, an honorary Glenn), and our day-after-Thanksgiving gathering with my father’s family, were joyful ways to end this month.
ALSO SEE: John Hilgart (ed.)’s HERMENAUTIC TAROT series | Josh Glenn’s VIRUS VIGILANTE series | & old-school HILOBROW series like BICYCLE KICK | CECI EST UNE PIPE | CHESS MATCH | EGGHEAD | FILE X | HILOBROW COVERS | LATF HIPSTER | HI-LO AMERICANA | PHRENOLOGY | PLUPERFECT PDA | SKRULLICISM.