Doing Round 2 of gift delivery by bicycle shortly and shoehorned a box into my Banjo Brothers bag that was such a tight fit there's a non-zero chance we'll have to cut it out... If you or a cyclist in your life needs a bag or panniers, check them out! banjobrothers.com/collections/...

This Debo Samuel catch and run with German commentary is just awesome!

The truth of this also got me thinking about Yaphet Kotto and what a great rep program he could inspire: ACROSS 110TH STREET (1972) LIVE & LET DIE (1973) TRUCK TURNER (1974) BLUE COLLAR (1978) ALIEN (1979) THE RUNNING MAN (1987) MIDNIGHT RUN (1989)

Best Philly present so far: A VHS of two hours of a 9th St burn barrel, presumably burning away

Sadly I did not receive one of these from Elder Teen

Kids in Philly

"We sent you to West Africa for a reason, Ryan"

A Merry Christmas to Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Bruce Feirstein, writers of THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, who created the character of nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones so that Bond's last line could be "I thought Christmas only comes once a year."

For all who celebrate Shane MacGowan's birthday Do watch this lovely rendition & read Dan's words

The weird thing is that he's evidently seen TOMMY

Fuck everything, we're doing seven fishes

You taught me everything I know about exterior illumination

Look at that beauty

The most realistic depiction of SEPTA ever to appear on screen

I can't lay hands on it but @kellyodonn.bsky.social once turned this photo into a holiday card for me and it ruled

Searched back through Blue Sky for this. Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.

About to bike downtown with Elder Teen to see MARTY SUPREME

Concentrated OJ: a daily feature of my life in the 70s and 80s Three cans of water perverts me www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRn...

Thirty years ago today I saw HEAT with my dad

Flyers are two points out of first and have the sixth-best point percentage in the league

We used to be a proper city

1. I love this film 2. I learned something here 3. What the hell, you get Tom Holland www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Great pass, great goal #Flyers

Watching Flyers at the Black Hawks reminds me that I have never visited this great city. Inconceivable!

Mood courtesy of Winona Ryder, Spy Magazine, 1989

God I hate an ad that reckons inter-generational relationships in terms of car ownership

Watching a cooking show again

One of the biggest problems with “crime is up” narratives is that, as far as the public is concerned, they can fade out of conscious memory, but never be reversed, because “nothing happened” never makes the news. Somehow, this needs to be the front page for the next year.

I know what holiday fare I'm watching tonight

Nic Claxton's side hustle www.claxtonfruitcake.com

Cops on the court during the timeouts seems goofy

"The lawyer so good, ambulances chase him" Nice

Free conifer branches bin labeled "Take a Bough"

Commence cozy grading!

I looked it up....and it's a mistranscription. And tragic!

I was searching DPLA for Philadelphia Christmas material and found this 1963 photo and press release titled "Nun-Historian". Penn history PhD Sister Joan de Lourdes was to be the first nun to speak at the AHA, Christmas week in Philly digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/9005

You can get a holiday greeting for a loved one from George Santos within 60 minutes for only $150!

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, Stanford Modern South Asia www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

No other magazine on Earth would run profiles of both John Kruk and Josh Shapiro in the same year, I can guarantee you that. Thanks to everyone for reading, sharing, and subscribing. I'm proud of the @phillymag.com staff every day, but especially this year, when we've had our backs up against it.

"Make me look like Peter Krause in Six Feet Under"

"Given the enormous physical bulk of the records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seaman, and the reluctance of any single UK repository to house them, roughly 70% of crew lists, agreements and official logbooks are now deposited in Newfoundland." www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...

Still thinking about this

Fun fact: Hadji Bakara went on to do a PhD at Chicago and is now an English prof at Michigan lsa.umich.edu/english/peop...

Religious studies folks, a request: I'm writing some text for a public-facing description of our department. (Literally public-facing--on the wall outside our office.) How would you explain what religious studies is about to passing students in a way that would make their ears perk up?

Verse featured in a student project

One of my favorite library stories: The Bibliothèque Nationale let David Marr just work in the stacks when he was researching VIETNAMESE TRADITION ON TRIAL -- some 10,000 Vietnamese books, serials and pamphlets from 1920-1945 were in the collection

Belatedly seeing this This happened at 56th & Lancaster, near Overbrook High www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/c...

JOB: Two-year VAP, Modern European History, Lafayette College Russia/Eastern Europe www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, Stanford Modern South Asia www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

"Being in Baltimore, I can't help but think about Frank Sobotka. He's a tragic figure, in my view."