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Eric
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Writer, Philly, figuring it out.
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Hater season in full swing!
Image of two text posts. One from Olúfémi O. Táiwò reading: according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social f@hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race. That post shared by @golikehellmachine.com with the comment: i don't like him, but, man, turning down $10M in favor of haterdom is an all-time, world-class, heavyweight champion hater move Image of post from the Paris Review with a quote by Philip Roth: "I occasionally have an anti-Roth reader in mind. I think, 'How he is going to hate this!' That can be just the encouragement I need."
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Amazing kicker in the Morning Rounds newsletter from @statnews.com today www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/h...
Headline from STAT newsletter reading "David Half-Asselhoff: Why doctors might 'fake' CPR"
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Oh no, there's language through this entire movie! I can't believe the MPAA has been sticking with this malapropism since the 90s.
Movie listing for "One Battle After Another" that is rated R for "pervasive language"
October 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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I was so happy to be back at the reopened rare books collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the new exhibit is [Vincent Price voice] to die for!
Banner reading "Or Not To Be: Representations of Death in Special Collections" on a silhouette of a tombstone with a raven perched nearby.
September 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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"I'm not going into any alley with you or anybody. And fuck the Wall Street Journal!"

RIP Robert Redford (Three Days of the Condor)
Robert Redford wearing a peacoat and sunglasses in front of a river. From the movie Three Days of the Condor.
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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If you're not following what the administration has been doing to cancer research funding this year, this is a must-read. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m... @nytimes.com
Highlighted text reading: "It's an absolutely unmitigated disaster, Lauer told me. It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do."
September 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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This one's for the fellas.
Interesting breakdown of the challenges in men's health in the U.S.
"We know a lot about male bodies, but we don't know a lot about men's health." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/m... @nytimes.com
Magazine spread with "Colonoscopy: Live Sports. Color TV" As neon signs
September 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Picture of highlighted text: "But when it came to what it was like to actually have the disease, I drew a blank. No one really talked about it, at least not publicly."
September 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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July 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Is the cure to male loneliness a lunch break?
Yes. Leave the office, get in some people watching. I'll take your pickle if you don't want it.
"The Case for Lunch"
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... @newyorker.com
Text reading: "Young people, alienated by the pandemic and social media, are turning to religion as a source of connection. God is great, but sometimes fellowship—a certain kind of existing in social space—can be as simple as a tuna sandwich. Plus, you get a pickle."
July 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Did Joe Fox arrange my hotel room?
A bouquet of newly sharpened pencils on a writing desk.
July 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Mulder from the X-files looking at a UFO poster that has been changed from saying "I want to Believe" to "I want to read"
April 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Re-watched The French Connection this week and feeling too connected with how relentlessly angry Gene Hackman is this whole movie.
Gene Hackman looking like the angriest man alive, behind the wheel of a car from a chase scene in the movie The French Connection"
February 20, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Don't tempt me!
February 9, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Yesterday's reminder to take the long way home sometimes and look up. Though this one was hard to missed as it brushed my sleeve trying to get a squirrel.
A red-tailed hawk sits in a tree in Philadelphia's Washington Square around sunset. A red-tailed hawk sits on a streetlight in Philadelphia's against a bare winter tree and a stone building near sunset.
February 7, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Trying to cut down on buying books in 2024. I got to day three.
The book Figures in a Landscape by Paul Theroux.
January 4, 2024 at 8:50 PM