Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I truly mean this as the biggest possible compliment: this read like the long-awaited sequel to Nicholas Baker's The Mezzanine 010
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Increasingly averse to "worn" forms of writing as declaration of identity (tshirts, bumper stickers, etc) but I did just have the thought on the way to the garden store with my biggest tote to buy a medium-sized bag of soil that it would be funny if it said THIS TOTE BAG IS MY PICKUP TRUCK. 040
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Two private geographies I regret not committing to paper before they faded: every roommate assignment from my floor in my high school dorm; the precise layout of every single store at Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City circa 2003-2006 when my little sister and I had it memorized. 050
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 10/03/2026All that aside, today's issue is killer! You should check it out: gourmetmagazine.net/paris-palace...gourmetmagazine.netParis is BlurringA writer returns to the Palace bars of Paris while the world burns again 051
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Kinda goofy news today, which is that I had to choose between my job of the past 6 years as a software engineer at the Times and my new co-op magazine newsletter Gourmet. I chose the latter!! 3285
Reposted by Nozlee SamadzadehSeth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026ATE A BIG PIECE OF CAKE. MAYBE TOO BIG. IM BREATHIN HEAVY 5724
Reposted by Nozlee SamadzadehIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 05/03/2026Once again at least I have my old friend Four Advil at my side 2102
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Just got a promotional email from a shoe company I last got a promotional email from two days shy of 11 years ago. The passage of time, the permanence of mailing lists! 020
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025I ate too much polenta a few years ago and took a long break but wow!! polenta!! time to eat too much again. 030
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I gotta tell you that with a lowly single Z in my last name, I am jealous of Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi for having two each. The additional Z in my first name is my only consolation. 140
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 03/10/2025"I Won't Share You" by The Smiths playing at the ice cream place was nice but I did swap tastes of our cones with several but not all of my friends. 020
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 18/08/2025andy i think it's maybe one of the only real supplements along with like, fish oil. i take it at night and actually sleep through the night finally! 100
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Should I put in my dating app profile that I'm not only a 6-year Rancho Gordo Bean Club member, but that when a new box arrives I pretty regularly only have 1-2 pounds of beans left from the previous shipment? 050
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 03/08/2025The B48 automated announcement voice no longer pronounces Meserole as "meserolly" but it does still pronounce Wythe as "with." 010
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Do you ever watch a French film (today, François Ozon's 1995 La Petite Mort) and wish you had that particular old-fashioned French handwriting? 151
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 12/07/2025I was already feeling lucky to spot an older person in flawless makeup and a belt and suspenders combo getting off the bus as I got on, but then there was also someone in a new-looking (??) Carol Burnett Show tshirt! 020
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 01/07/2025truly, genuinely, would that we were all more like you!! 000
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Channeling my inchoate longing for the return of blogging into posting Too Many Updates to my Ravelry project for the hot little cotton-silk polo I'm knitting (sadly you gotta have an account to read it) www.ravelry.com/projects/nzl...ravelry.comRavelry: nzle's KAGE polo 230
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 01/07/2025On Sunday @zanopticon.bsky.social recognized me on the street by my ass in my swim trunks! 020
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Lotta good outfits and hot guys and cute babies at my polling place this morning, the sheen of sweat making everyone look glamorous. 020
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025List of items I've seen people carrying on the subway and initially mistaken for a hockey stick because I'm usually carrying a hockey stick: tennis rackets, baseball bats, and, this morning, two of those very long levels used on construction sites. 050
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I praise this day, which has brought me one of those increasingly infrequent little blessings: spotting a real life head-to-toe Thom Browne guy on the subway on his way to work. 040
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 09/06/2025came to me in a flash this morning that if I got a vanity plate (n.b. at no point in my life have I been able to drive) it would be DOT PDF 040
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 28/05/2025last night during my hockey game, a couple of teammates had the knicks-pacers game playing on their phones on the bench, a goofy symphony of sneaker squeaking and ball bouncing and skate scraping and puck slapping. 020
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Every other guy walking around today in a nice little knit shirt and shorts shorter than mine is a try-hard and every other guy walking around today in a nice little knit shirt and shorts longer than mine is a huge nerd, hope this helps 0451
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Wasn't paying attention and very carefully shook three orange foam earplugs out of the little tub to put in before going to bed, as if I had that many ears. 050
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 01/05/2025can u get that one video where we both tried an early VR headset 010
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 30/04/2025It must be so cool to be a toddler on the subway in New York City, occasionally getting bodily picked up in your stroller by a beefy hot stranger (me) who lugs you up or down the stairs before disappearing forever. 050
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025In the same way that circa 2006, I had an ambient awareness of which of my friends paid to be able to send and receive text messages in case I needed to call instead, circa 2025, I have an awareness of who subscribes to what paywalled journalism so I can generate gift links when I send them stuff! 030
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 15/03/2025(i do however genuinely believe that the national uniform claim committee did their absolute best to make sure the pdf was only 63 pages long) 010
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 15/03/2025hello from page 26 of this 63-page pdf of instructions on how to fill out a 1-page health insurance claim pdf :/ 100
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I wrote a little piece on the garlic I bought in Istanbul for @bestfoodblog.bsky.social, but the bonus story is that I ALSO bought a bag of Sichuan peppercorns at a Chinese grocery near Taksim Square. Used them for the first time this week in a cucumber salad. www.bestfoodblog.net/you-deserve-...bestfoodblog.netYou Deserve Fresher, Stinkier GarlicAlso this week: We’re microwaving our tofu and roasting astounding amounts of lamb. 041
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025lil Lefrak Center at Lakeside haiku walking into the park for my 9:15 game: final winter weeks / the crescent moon points up over the rink / playoffs are soon 010
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Enthusiastic guy on the dance floor at Nowadays spontaneously patted me on the back as Laurel Halo went on as if to say we had a long ways to go, which we did. 030
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The bad news is that I dribbled crema antica gelato on my shirt. The good news is that this shirt is crema antica colored. 030
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025But THEN, just today I was looking up the lyrics to Changing Heart and LO there is a (German??) version for the Byrds!!!! die-augenweide.de/byrds/index....die-augenweide.deThe Byrds Lyrics Page 040
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Which is why I was so thrilled to discover its (Italian??) Bruce Springsteen equivalent while on a road trip in April!!! www.brucespringsteen.it/Brucex.htmbrucespringsteen.itBruce Springsteen lyrics 120
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025A website I've loved for two decades is this Web 1.0 Morrissey lyrics resource LASID boubouni.com/mirrors/Smit...boubouni.comIMAET - LASID 110
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I am glad I got to dance to I Feel Love in between a group of older lesbians and a very gen Z queer couple and two hot people of indeterminate gender last night at PAT. (I was the third hot person of indeterminate gender.) 050
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Ate a bodega sandwich for lunch and found lettuce on my shoulder when I got up to toss the wrapper?? 010
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 22/12/2024No one tell me what else is in the canon of slice-of-life films about gay schoolteachers in the 70s and 80s, I want to find them by accident as god intended. 010
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 22/12/2024I feel so lucky that I learned about and got to watch Taxi Zum Klo (1980) and Nighthawks (1978) within a few weeks of each other! 220
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Well into year 15 of regular use of my beloved laundromat and it's wild how many washers and dryers here I've never used!! 020
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024it's gotta be this one about front darts on the trousers of most of the jameses bond!! www.bondsuits.com/darted-trous...bondsuits.comDarted Trousers – Bond SuitsThe one style of trousers that people never talk about is the darted front. We always hear about pleats versus no pleats, but darts are left out. A dart is essentially a pleat that is sewn shut, but i... 110
Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I did! I read articles, watched videos, added songs to playlists, downloaded PDFs, bought some shoes, and also handled the real reason most of the tabs were open, which was to ..... archive them in my arcane personal tagging system in Pinboard 120
