Philly, politics, poetry, and silliness. Background in science, long stretch as an editor, now redesigning tired properties. Have creative appreciation of many types!
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I'm glad it's getting a new life. npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm I think they can just wait for Trump to withdraw from the existing ones. npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm "brown trout" needs a content warning? there must be a story there! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm "nonstop sufferfest" lol. yeah, nope. npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm took a photo for you! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm Amazing! I bought a painting that had a red-belly holding a nut, and I thought "that seems unrealistic for a woodpecker" -- shows what i know! thanks for the pic. npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm Teen: "Carson Wentz has been on the sidelines for both Eagles' Superbowl victories" 🔥 🔥 npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm can I just say... EAGLES LINEMEN! 😍 npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm holy cow, this game. npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm Ok, perking up enough to get out the wings and guac! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm congregation amused, sang along! :)) npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm From this morning's church bulletin... npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm A less enthusiastic #SchwagWeek participant.... npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm the answer might have been Google just a bit ago, but unless you know a reliable site for the info, you're going to get AI-d into nonsenseville. npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm everyone knows that blokes that love red foods make the best dads.... ;) npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm here's my guy. usually head-down on a tree, move with a "pip" sound... npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm wow, European nuthatches are so colorful!! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm I am taking it on faith that they have eyes. 🤣 npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm what do they do with the protruding teeth?? npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm that is a crazy-looking bird! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm awesome! for those without a Rolling Stone subscription, it's here too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSeaHfkd3M8 npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm #dailyHaikuPrompt - solstice npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm omg, I need to bring my poor doggo home to Kalamazoo to wade in drifts! Philadelphia is almost out of the winter snow scene anymore! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm that makes me absurdly happy. sometimes you just gotta love the deep weirdo stuff! :))) npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm Why do certain things live in our brains? Some nerdy friends in high school showed me Repo Man and Liquid Sky, two quite odd movies, and this song from the later takes over my brain for 3 days straight about once every two years. npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm wait, you can use full-sized marshmallows for this?!?!? npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm Ok, obligatory #Thanksgiving report! Turkey, mashed potatoes, brussels with pepitas and rosemary, squash, kale salad, 3-bean salad (visiting from the 70s), sweet potato biscuits. Desserts: pumpkin pie and chocolate mousse pie (from Grandma), chocolate chip cookies, and apple crumble with vanilla ice cream. Meal at 2, and I don't think anybody in the house will be interested in anything passing for another meal!! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm I think he's regretting that thing he just said! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm ya' know, my original comment was... dark humor. I'm not joking when I say I lived in fear of death by nuclear war for most of my teens and twenties, considered not having children because of it, etc. npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm oh geez! [head-desk] npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm HEY! I lived with nuclear paranoia for 25 years. I'd like to be free to move on to newer dreads like climate change and dissolution of democracy. Please no reruns!! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm Snapped this one yesterday for #ThickTrunkTuesday -- a lot of the best trees in #Philadelphia seem to be sycamores like this one. npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm wow, simultaneously a great portrait and an abstraction into textures! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm whoah, can't really even parse the structure of that! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm it's really awful in the blue states... npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm Gray and cold in #Philadelphia today, so took a Stupid Little Mental Health Walk (@npub1fn0…jmml) with the dog and scored some new murals! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm 🤣 thought I was going to learn about a new part of ungulate anatomy! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm adorbs! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm ok, you got me -- what are "oregons"?? npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm I had no idea the females were so sparrow!! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm I feel lucky that philadelphia (maybe PA?) has a phone in each voting materials box with a set of numbers that a voter can call to be walked through the ballot in about 25 languages! still a barrier, but one poll volunteers are happy to help voters jump. npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm even easier: no smart home devices at all! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm morning chill -- npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm this book was the bomb! great magical plotty stuff, and then you end up... working on the realities of self and human relations. great!! npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm yeah, every parent wishes they could try to figure out what their teens are watching in 2 minute increments for 8 hours on the weekend, so as to control it... npub10q2d7g2udntr3vay2093m2n2vu4pz9a5uuyhmpq9r7dm2vnreqpslcs77n acm I mean, that's a surprisingly dated argument. 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