Since I seem to have a host of new followers…

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jason and I’m writing this with an Irish lilt in my voice. 

What I Like

I like black and white movies set in Paris and London.

I like breakfast for dinner at 24-hour diners.

I like classic cocktails with names like Manhattan and Sidecar.

I like wearing my grandfather’s heavy, blue wool overcoat and my father’s gray fedora in the winter.

I like talking baseball with strangers.

I like rooting for the bad guy in heist movies.

I like jazz that sounds like a rainy night in New York.

I like poems about the sea and matters of the heart.

I like women who know how to say fuck because they’re comfortable in their own skin.

I like minimalism though I like too much stuff to be a minimalist.

I like September because it’s gorgeous everywhere.

I like buying the newspaper from a news stand.

I like soul music on Sunday mornings.

I like Coca-Cola in glass bottles.

I like red toes.

I like the Beatles in mono and the Rolling Stones in stereo.

I like the word ‘caper’ when it’s used to describe a crime.

I like women who cook breakfast in my shirt and their underwear.

I like it when they’re referred to as the funny papers.

I like packages wrapped in brown paper and twine.

I like stripped socks.

I like the way middle-aged Italian men dress.

And I like you.