Ian S. Pumpkins
@icpetrie.bsky.social
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Historian, Canadian, Philadelphian. Higher ed, urban🚲, books, cats, hockey. At Penn's CETLI; teach South Asia & Hist Sci/Med/Tech. Disappointing people since 1972.
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You tell the kids today that Philly's public pools used to be stocked with carp and they won't believe you
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Winning sculpture depicted the Tush Push!

"he had these very complex sketches prepared for what I imagine was the Tush Push" lol
On her choice, Suda reflected that she at first “had my greatest doubts when I saw Patrick get to work because he had these very complex sketches prepared for what I imagine was the Tush Push, [but] what I realized as he was going along, was that he was working like Michaelangelo from an original block of material, carving away to the original shape of his idea, and that is very, very advanced sculpting.”
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Would def watch

Conversation also included how attractive she was
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Confusing moment from this morning:

She: I want pancakes after watching that Maggie Smith video last night

He: Wut?*

* video in question was Maggie Rogers "Don't Forget Me" in which she is shown making pancakes
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Having once broken a chair I can identify with Tim Robinson here
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I partook of three sports this evening to make up for my four day hiatus

Now watching the first episode of THE CHAIR COMPANY...
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I hate this weak-chinned fella and yet must also respect his game
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New Yorker celebrity profiles - almost always compromised by the very access that a New Yorker writer gets?

(Also: Emily was a great TV critic. As a feature writer, not so much?)
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My latest untitled project in preproduction, slated to star Shea Whigham, Scoot McNairy & Skeet Ulrich
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Saw an eagle at the end of the river trip

#GoBirds
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This feels like youth hockey (where the extra attacker almost always leads to an empty netter)
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Oh shit the dreaded Rav 4....
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Tremendous play by Zegras
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Now watching some Flyers hockey
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Historian Edward ingram did this in every book

(tbh it made him seem like a total dick)
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books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip
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Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Bumper sticker seen today:

I GOT WET AT THE BON JOVI SERVICE AREA
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As a person rooting for the Brewers, I enjoyed that
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Then a lovely weekend in Narrowsburg

Kayaking on the Delaware. Hiking (in hunting season 😬). Good eats. Scrabble.

Much beautiful fall foliage
View from Narrowsburg across the Delaware to Pennsylvania forest Foreground: front of a kayak

Under cloudy skies, a river flanked by forests on either shore