The New Leaf Journal’s resident fictional dialogue duo, Justin and Justina, found themselves at a discount store. Coincidentally, both of them needed toothpaste. Expand to learn more about my Justin and Justina dialogue series… Justin and Justina are a fictional New Leaf Journal dialogue duo created by New Leaf...

On March 22, 2026, Andreas at 82MHz published a blog post titled Mastodon (Bluesky/X/Instagram) is not the right platform for posting long-form content (a blog is). As a threshold matter, I am glad he wrote this as a blog post instead of a social media thread, not least because I would have almost certainly not read...

On February 4, 2025, I published Emojam and Emoji Story-Telling Memories. The article was prompted by the Emojam, a Japanese “pager” for kids which only allows for messages made up up of pre-loaded emoji (see Emojam report). I only spent a few sentences on the Emojam itself before segueing into a story from my high...

On February 23, 2026, Morning Brew published a report headlined Axe body spray wants to cut through the fog. I quote the opening paragraph: Axe is looking to get out of the cloud business. The body spray company knows it’s infamous for making locker rooms look like cigar lounges, so it’s taking a lighter approach by...

On June 13, 2021, I photographed “Uncle Susan is a Wolf” graffiti in Gowanus, Brooklyn. I turned that photograph into an investigative Uncle Susan article on December 29 of the same year. While conducting research in the spirit of a prior project I undertook regarding BLOB Dylan tags, I ascertained that Uncle Susan...

Note: This post introduces my new on-site Blogroll. You can view the Blogroll, which will be regularly updated, here. I have had a long-time interest in maintaining a blogroll on The New Leaf Journal and had a couple of blogroll pages in the past. However, I was never satisfied with my blogroll idea, and for that...

On March 10, 2026, Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo scored 83 points against the Washington Wizards, which is good for the second highest single-game scoring effort in NBA history behind Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points against the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962. I have an article idea prepared regarding Mr. Adebayo’s...

On July 22, 2025, I published Happy Cleaners Cargo Trike in Gowanus. The article was centered on photographs I had taken in the previous month of an adorable and endearing three-wheeled laundry pick-up and delivery vehicle seen outside an associated laundry establishment in Gowanus, Brooklyn. I was inspired to...

Encountering the Fruitmobile at Houston Hobby Airport I had a layover at Houston Hobby Airport on May 21, 2025, which led to my publishing articles about William P. Hobby based on exhibits at the airport and Illy coffee vending machines. It is no exaggeration to say that I saw everything there was to see at Houston...

My Friend’s Stuffed Bird Rescue Yesterday (March 16, 2026), I published an article about a BLOB DYLAN tag in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on September 28, 2025. To be precise, I took two photographs of the BLOB DYLAN tag in question at 15:40:45 and 15:40:46 that afternoon. I was out with a friend that day. Just over one...

I went to the Brooklyn, New York City neighborhood of Williamsburg with a friend on September 28, 2025. It was my first walk to Williamsburg since May 4 of the same year. On my previous Williamsburg excursion, which was to be fitted for a tuxedo I needed for a different friend’s wedding at the end of August, I...

I use a feed reader to curate my online reading and viewing sources. For this reason, I largely avoid the slop and spam which floods the internet’s myriad algorithmic feeds. But, now and then, I still come across an something which causes me to do a double-take: “That cannot possibly be real.” One such case occurred...