A decorative grill by Samuel Yellin, Morgan Library #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUniform

Why do I keep having this dream where Kate Mulgrew(!) is my boss?

How is one of these not a condom?

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Aretha Franklin (30) Boards of Canada (19) Traffic (15) f.s.blumm (12) Antônio Carlos Jobim (11). #myweekcounted 206 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

Do yourself a favor and listen to the authentically Philly pronunciations. P.S. Despite being an interloper, I received a perfect score on this.

I wanna go back.

Hell of an album! You should listen. Really. #music

Hmph. 🐝

“We found the zippy, vinegary French’s mustard to be somewhat fizzy, and it left a slight burning sensation in the throat after swallowing.”

New mural by Alloyius Mcilwaine on Market Street!

I’m not sure. But if you offered me an Arby’s beef ’n cheddar with a jamocha shake right now, I wouldn’t say no. Curly fries, too?

This isn’t *my* part of Oklahoma, but I’m pretty sure the water fountain isn’t the only sign of civilization.

Highlight of the day, so far: when a server at the neighborhood pub SHUT DOWN a patron who’d decided to CLIP HER NAILS right there at a table.

In honor of Memorial Day, we highlight a letter from U.S. Army veteran, educator, & musician William James Goggans who congratulated contralto Marian Anderson for being selected as one of the 10 most admired women in the world. #BlackJoy blackjoy.pacscl.org/omeka/s/bjr/...

There’s a Miami Itch Center, you say?

“[M]utual friends put him in touch with photographer Piero Pazzi, who has also created a calendar featuring Venetian gondoliers and has founded museums in Budapest and Montenegro on the history of cats.”

Just to confuse the neighborhood, I’m wearing a Michigan Stags t-shirt today.

HBD, Bob Dylan! (This is the Dylan song I’d sing to you.) #music

There’s a Miami Itch Center, you say?

HBD, Bob Dylan! (This is the Dylan song I’d sing to you.) #music

Currently:

For the love of god… Wordle 1,799 5/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Garden District fences, Jackson avenue, New Orleans

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Sufjan Stevens (23) The Specials (15) Fever Ray (11) Pulp (8) Charles Mingus (5). #myweekcounted 76 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

The nominees for Americana album of the year are great! I’ll be rooting for S.G. Goodman. (But how is Charley Crockett not in there?)

“Caviar once lived in a world of silver tins, iced vodka, and people saying ‘osetra’ with a straight face. Pizza lived elsewhere: cardboard boxes, grease, paper plates, and way too many napkins. And now they're dating — in Fishtown, naturally.” [gift link]

God, I love archivists. That is all.

Reds 4, Phillies 1. And we got wet. Bah.

Same, tbh. Heh? #comicstrips

Meanwhile, it’s going to be 90° today in Philly. 😢

All this talk about Okay, Okla., has me thinking about a Tom Paxton song. Okay is, y’know, along the Verdigris River. #music

Royal Crown Cola West Terre Haute, IN

Ulysses (duh) Babbitt (a Top 100 list is deeply flawed if Sinclair Lewis isn’t represented, Guardian list-makers) A Room with a View (it’s better than Howards End, Guardian!)

I’ve been to Okay, Oklahoma, about a million times. So trust me when I say these photos are of nearby-ish Fort Gibson, Okla.? Fort Gibson is more than 10 miles from Okay.

Four weeks ago today, this was Wedding Reading No. 2. cc: @cccamac.bsky.social

The weekend. Deal, Kent.

I woke up to find that someone in Alameda County had used my email address overnight to create a Match account. So many emails! Sorry, Nancy, Hanny, Adazhang, and Krystal. I’m not your guy.

Six years ago OTD: pandemic hair and a beer, on the patio 📸: @cccamac.bsky.social

Surprise, surprise - one of my favorites visited quickly today - a Redheaded Woodpecker! I saw it by the bath, and then it checked out the food bowl and tried to prompt me to refill it. This is only the second time I saw one. They are stunning, but still as goofy as any woodpecker 😆 #birds

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Stephen Stills (24) Pink Floyd (15) Jack White (14) The Cure (12) The War on Drugs (11). #myweekcounted 93 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

I blame Food Network.

“Amid a flurry of people stopping to take videos of the load and one individual giving it the middle finger, the bot took its load and went on its way.“

My neighborhood, Old City Philadelphia, is thick with school field trips right now! This morning, I’m pretty sure I was the only adult man in sight who wasn’t wearing knee breeches and a tricorne.

@profanity.accountant Hiya!

MYOB, New York Times.

“While Philadelphia leverages its old-school charm (brick facades), striking good looks (public art), and alluring persona (locals known for their gruff exteriors but soft interiors) . . . San Antonio has been incorporating the demographic equivalent of steroids — annexation.”

Dear #appellatesky: What’s the, erm, right kind of dedication ceremony for a historic marker about Schenck v. United States?

“We found that many people — rich, poor or somewhere in between — live life as a series of small calculations that add up to one big question.”

I got to know Jason a bit when I was living in Austin. We both played tennis at the South Austin Tennis Center, and every once in awhile, we'd be doubles partners (we had pretty good net coverage between us). He was warm, generous, friendly, thoughtful, and a fundamentally lovely human. F*** cancer.