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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 6h

hey it’s October and that means we’re having an apple tasting and judging party. The varieties are anonymized, and guests are asked to assign ratings on a 1-10 scale. Tasting notes are also welcomed.

Dining room table arranged with 21 small plates, each containing a different apple variety, with sliced chunks for tasting

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 03/10/2026

finally! a ride on a proper New England autumn day. give me cool, dry air and crunchy leaf-strewn trails in the woods and big-ass oatmeal whoopie pies at the rest stop.

holding a large oatmeal whoopie pie with my drop-bar all-road bike in the background

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 01/10/2026

Kismet that I ran across your post immediately after finishing your piece here

Cover of the latest issue of New York Magazine, with the phrase “The Mystery of Beck” circled in red

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 19/09/2026

pretty tough title for a kid’s book

Book on display in a library’s children’s room:

DOLLY PARTON
DIAMOND in a RHINESTONE WORLD

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 16/09/2026

please let your Boston-area friends and adoptee friends know this is happening next week! @kaileepedersen.bsky.social’s new book is a great read, creepy as hell, rich with all kinds of themes touching on music & identity & #adoption and much more—and I have the honor of talking about it with her.

Text of flyer:

Author Talk
Kailee Pedersen
Thursday, Sept. 24 7:00-8:30pm
Join author Kailee Pedersen for a conversation about her new novel The Minimalist, joined by Winchester librarian Tony Corsentino. In this lively and wide-ranging discussion, they will explore the ways that the author's experience as an intercountry adoptee from China informs her creative outlook.
For fans of Tar and The Piano Teacher, this gruesome and unsettling psychological drama is a darkly lucid literary portrait of a classical composer's descent into madness.
THE MINIMALIST
KAILEE
A NOVEL
PEDERSEN
Winchester
PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 12/09/2026

a masterpiece of modern design, posed in front of this house i came upon on a ride today

My drop-bar all-road bike in front of a boxy white house, a landmark of 20th century architecture, the Walter Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts

Plaque in front of the house:

GROPIUS HOUSE
HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK
THIS SITE POSSESSES NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE IN COMMEMORATING THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

WALTER GROPIUS DESIGNED AND BUILT THIS HOUSE IN 1938 FOR HIS FAMILY. FOUNDER OF THE BAUHAUS SCHOOL OF MODERN DESIGN IN GERMANY, GROPIUS WAS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARCHITECTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 08/09/2026

Another Japanese beer brand with a non-alcoholic version: Sapporo. Pretty good. More full-bodied than the Asahi i tried a few days ago.

On my kitchen counter: a glass of dark gold non-alcoholic beer with a finger of white foam. The silver can, labeled Sapporo Premium Non-Alcoholic, stands alongside the glaaa

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 07/09/2026

Labor Day going great so far. 🚲🍁🥓🍩

Holding a maple bacon donut in front of my bike, which is locked to a Dunkin’ Donuts parking sign.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 05/09/2026

the main target for this kind of marketing consists, I think, of people for whom the factors limiting their “speed” have basically nothing to do with what kind of “gravel bike” they ride

Screenshot of an article in Cyclingnews:

'A lot of gravel bikes have gone soft in the pursuit of comfort' - Factor's new Elara rails against do-it-all in search of speed

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 05/09/2026

college dorm art 2026: Sufjan Stevens, Talking Heads, boygenius concert posters; Pete Seeger, LOTR, Twin Peaks, Gustav Klimt

Posters on a dorm room wall, itemized as described in the post

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 05/09/2026

we are dropping off our 18yo at college tomorrow, and I was looking over the list of recommended items to bring, and I was disappointed to see that a bike and lock are not mandatory

Screenshot of “Miscellaneous” items:

• Umbrella
• Backpack
• Sports Equipment
• Bike and bike lock (optional)

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 04/09/2026

I spent my first two decades in the Deep South and my next three decades in New England, and somehow I have ended up talking like a Marylander

Screenshot of the result of my online dialect test, with text:

You talk most like someone from Maryland - about 59% of your answers match a typical resident.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 04/09/2026

i’m pleased to report that Asahi’s 0% ABV pils is very good! mild grain sweetness, “super dry” finish as advertised. Beautiful clarity—no haze at all.

Glass of crystal-clear non-alcoholic Asahi beer next to the bottle

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 02/09/2026

i have scoffed at my spouse, who came to me from western Mass by way of two decades in Northern California, for insisting that she could get a Meyer lemon tree to produce fruit here in metro Boston. Well, shame on me. This little plant has offered us three. 🍋

Small potted Meyer lemon tree on a deck, with two of the unripe fruits visible

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 02/09/2026

I put an Albatross bar on my 90s MTB and for the first 100 yards I was like “whoa, do I like this?”, which quickly changed to “holy shit I *love* this”

1998 Specialized Rockhopper mountain bike in the woods. The handlebar is a nicely swept-back cruiser bar called the Albatross.”

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 31/08/2026

i am enjoying picturing a ride on the transatlantic railroad 🌊🚂🌊

Excerpt from a review of a new book on the California Gold Rush:

The titular "rush" is the touchstone of the narrative, referring to a hurry-scurry imperative to gain wealth and power. In Philbrick's expansive telling, the "rush" had a deleterious effect on everything from the lives of immigrants and Native peoples to the integrity of America's legal and judicial systems, and even hastened the nation's descent into civil war. But it was also a catalyst for astonishing technological advancements, from the transatlantic railroad to motion pictures. Tracing stories as varied as those of white supremacists vying for control of San Francisco,

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 31/08/2026

NA beer check: Good Time Brewing’s NA wheat beer. It’s got a bit of lemon and coriander, but it’s not a witbier. Nice.

Goblet of hazy golden non-alcoholic wheat beer, next to the yellow can on my kitchen counter

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 30/08/2026

water fountain in Concord, Mass. decorated with a quotation from Henry “Life of the Party” David Thoreau

Water bottle refill station with a bottle-shaped plaque bearing a quotation from Henry David Thoreau

Close up of quotation: “Water is the only drink for a wise man.”

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 30/08/2026

what a deeply stupid time to be alive

Google Maps screenshot showing Lake Ontario labeled as “Lake America”

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 29/08/2026

lastly: somebody’s Xtra Big-Ass Eagle

Large golden eagle figure mounted to a white lattice board near a house in the pine barrens of southeast Massachusetts

Close up view of the eagle, wings outspread, splendidly golden

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 29/08/2026

I have wanted for a long time to ride this 1/4 mile stretch of road running from nowhere to nowhere. I’m weird like that

Historical sign reading as follows:

SAVERY'S AVENUE
FIRST DIVIDED HIGHWAY IN AMERICA
PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC IN 1861 BY
WILLIAM SAVERY
THE TREES BETWEEN THE ROADS AND ON THE OUTSIDE OF THEM WERE TO BE LEFT STANDING *FOR SHADE AND ORNAMENT FOR MAN AND BEAST.* BOTH ROAD BEDS WERE MACADAMIZED IN 1807. A PORTION OF THE EXPENSE BEING ADVANCED BY THE DAUGHTERS OF THE BUILDER, MRS. MARY P. S. JOWITT AND MISS H.D. SAVERY.

My bike parked against a tree in the median of what is purported to be the oldest divided highway in the United States: now a pleasant pair of paved paths in the woods

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 29/08/2026

tip: if you’re ever in South Carver, and you eat chicken sandwiches, get one at The Good Bird.

Chicken sandwich on a bench next to my bike

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 29/08/2026

exploring the coastal pine barrens of SE Mass and ending up on Cranberry Road

my bike beneath a telephone pole to which two street signs are attached: one reads “FEDERAL RD” and the other “⬅️ OCEAN SPRAY”

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 29/08/2026

coming home from the grocery store i encountered my neighbor and his toddler who were out taking a rock for a walk. I showed them a banana I bought and the toddler stretched out his free hand. I handed him the banana, and in payment he dropped the rock to the ground. Good trade.

My hand holding a rock i got in trade from a toddler for a banana

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 26/08/2026

oh I won’t miss this! I will settle down with my favorite mug

Porcelain mug from Lenny Mud showing Mr. T’s head and the phrase MR. TEA

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 24/08/2026

my spouse returned from San Francisco with this shirt as a gift for my son. I hope he likes it because I can’t think of anyone it suits better.

Dark blue T-shirt bearing a sign seen inside buses in San Francisco:

INFORMATION GLADLY GIVEN
BUT SAFETY REQUIRES AVOIDING UNNECESSARY CONVERSATION

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 19/08/2026

a propos of nothing, here is John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish veterinarian and inventor of the pneumatic tire, shredding it

Scottish man in a coat and bowler hat on a bicycle

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 19/08/2026

nobody around here ever remembers to put a coaster under him

My black cat Mako sitting primly on a coffee table. A teenager is lounging in the couch in the background.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 19/08/2026

anyway, i am totally fascinated with how overbuilt with RR infrastructure Massachusetts became before the triumph of the automobile. As one rail-trail advocate put it, these trails are "long linear museums" of that chapter in the state's economic/capitalist history. With beavers.

Beaver lodge (looking like a pyramidal pile of branches) at the edge of a pond. My bike handlebar and GPS are in the foreground.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 19/08/2026

the wildlife one can spot on a rail trail is impressive

Cyclist ahead on me on a wooded rail trail

Close up view of the cyclist’s shorts pulled halfway down, yellow briefs on full display

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 19/08/2026

Nutella blondie and doppio espresso at the turnaround point

Outdoor table at a coffee shop with a cup of espresso and a plate holding a big blondie. My bike is propped against the table at the opposite end.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 19/08/2026

playing hooky with my new bike on the Mass Central Rail Trail 🚂 🚲 🌞

My bike propped against a granite railroad mileage marker reading N 53 (53 miles to Northampton)

Reverse view showing the other side of the marker, reading B 51 (51 miles to Boston)

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 19/08/2026

thank-you gift my 18yo made for their supervisor at the end of their internship at the aquarium

Gouache painting of a green moray emerging from a coral reef

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 17/08/2026

The new @thewaroncars.bsky.social interview with @humantransit.bsky.social was so good that I’m going to go ride my bike to the library and get my hands on a copy of Walker’s book HUMAN TRANSIT. (Then maybe a bookstore.)

Screenshot of podcast episode page on the War On Cars website

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 17/08/2026

Ah right! Although I think maybe this new variation might not?? At least I don’t see any dairy products or derivatives on the ingredient list

Holding a jar of Nutella Peanut, which tastes like Butterfinger and is amazing

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 17/08/2026

Local decorative hops close to ready for harvesting. Probably good for a 2.5 gallon batch

Hop bines growing on a weathered wooden fence. Hop flowers are light green and at mature size.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 17/08/2026

so. i love this. It’s one of the most aromatic NA IPAs I’ve ever tried, and it’s totally faithful to the original, including the tropical fruit notes and the bitter, dank finish. It’s got that “de-alcoholized” flavor note you catch with almost all NA IPAs, but otherwise it’s basically Sip.

Glass of Lawson’s non-alcoholic “Sip’n” IPA, a honey gold beer with a finger of white foam. The yellow can stands alongside the glass on my kitchen counter.

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