A truly astounding image. A street in Macau with the Grand Lisboa Casino looming in the background. Photograph by Paul Tsui, National Geographic travel photographer of the year.’ The future is now.

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Wallasey Golf Club 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Old Tom Morris — 1891 Perhaps the country’s hidden gem. Wonderful in every way. Play it before you die.

Sunningdale (Old) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Willie Park Jr. • 1900 Sixty miles from the nearest coastline, in Berkshire, is where you’ll find the No. 1 course in England (according to Golf Digest.) After spending a day there, it’s easy to see why.

Royal Liverpool 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 R. Chambers & G. Morris • 1869 Harry Colt • 1924 The Open Championship has been played thirteen times here and the history can be felt. Hoylake teaches us that eclectic topography, with towering dunes, is not a requirement for great golf.

Royal Birkdale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 George Lowe (1889) Hawtree & Taylor (1931) Birkdale is brilliant - a network of holes inside a network of dunes. Flanked on both sides by the mounds, between them like corridors, each one feels like an amphitheater. The Open Championship returns here in July.

Royal Lytham & St Annes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 George Lowe (1886) | Harry Colt (1919) There is a certain mystique about Royal Lytham. A classic out-and-back routing, with a par 3 opener, it has hosted #TheOpenChampionship eleven times.

Hesketh Golf Club 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James O.F. Morris (1885) A short drive from Birkdale, Hesketh is the oldest club in town. It’s fun, in a Tenacious D kind of way. There’s plenty of good stuff here and the finishing six-hole stretch is superb.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

Don't forget to take your time at the sugar/milk counter at the coffee place. No one needs to be anywhere. It's a glorious morning.

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things."

All politics aside, it's astonishing that anyone could hear Donald Trump talking and think "this is a smart person who is good at speaking."

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A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. The Beatles did.

I'm taking a break from politics to put ciabatta on blast. Let me begin by saying *fuck* this bread 1/

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Mitch McConnell gets away with so much just because people think he's hot

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

Hey NYCers, where can I get a good slice of real L.A. pizza in NYC???