We’re very excited to announce Brooklynite Geoff Badner has joined TMN as our Contributing Photographer. He’s done lots of features here before, and there are also a bunch in the works. You can read about his background on the Masthead.

What’s not mentioned is his uncanny resemblance to actor Johnny Depp, and his good humor and character. You can see plenty of his beautiful work at his Web site, geoffbadner.com.

And, because I haven’t done this in a while, here’s a list of recent favorite things, having nothing or little to do with Geoff Badner:

Beppe

Alison Krauss

Gringos by Charles Portis

Viewing ‘Landscape with a Village in the Distance’ by Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael while listening to ‘Listen Up’ by Oasis

Other people’s favorite things

Soft, 6 a.m. crew

The Sasha roll at TNY

‘Jealous Guy’ by Donny Hathaway

TLS’s booknotes column

Cheering for Known World winning Pulitzer, cheering for three more years of Boone

Brooks

MP3 blogs, with, as we used to say, in the follow-me-now-phase, ‘big ups’ to The Hut and Soul Sides

Still crushed on James Casebere

Alan Furst

My gym and running season

Despite living in Brooklyn, The Villager

Fried egg, American cheese, jalapenos, and white bean paste on toast, beer