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Jerome Hodos
@jhodos.bsky.social
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Lost in Megalopolis: Global urbanism, sociology, city politics, planning, street vitality. Professor, Franklin & Marshall College; mistakes all my own.
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Graffito of the Week, No. 031: Viva el Punk; Quito, 2010. #GotW
A text graffito in angular, burnt-orange letters on a whitish-gray wall: VIVA EL PUNK. The N is backwards, like a Cyrillic letter, and the I has an x above it instead of a dot.
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Cold night, so they’re cozying up.
Two cats, one black and one gray, curled up together in a cat bed, looking skeptically (you aren’t gonna give us treats, are you) at the picture taker.
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Pennie, the health insurance marketplace for Pennsylvania, has released information on likely premium increases if the ACA subsidies disappear. It's ugly. pennie.com/affordability/
Map of Pennsylvania by county in different shades of pink and red, with darker colors corresponding to higher percentage premium increases.
November 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Graffito of the Week, No. 030: One Reservoir Dog as a Turnip; Cuenca, Ecuador, 2010. #GotW
A stencil-designed spray paint figure in black on a cream-colored wall: A man in a suit, white shirt, and tie, holding a gun that shoots a drip spraypaint shot, with what looks like a turnip for a head.
October 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The album cover from the Reverend Horton Heat's Smoke 'em if You Got 'em LP, featuring the Reverend smiling in a cream plaid jacket on a yellow background.
October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Graffito of the Week, No. 029: Calamar; Barcelona, 2011. #GotW
Graffiti of a big pink squid with big googly eyes on a gray-painted concrete wall.
October 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Graffito of the Week, No. 028: No eres sin mi; Ecuador, 2010. I have always loved this one. #GotW
Written graffiti in blue spray paint on an off-white stucco wall: "Tú no eres sin mi Yo solo soy contigo!!"
October 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Graffito of the Week, No. 027: Warhol and Basquiat; Wynwood Walls, Miami, 2015. #GotW
A building-size, multicolored mural under puffy clouds with larger-than-life portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol in orange v-neck pullovers.
October 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Apparently I bought Totoro mozzarella today.
September 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Graffito of the Week No. 026: I Am the Artwork; Miami, 2015. #GotW
Graffito of white text on concrete sidewalk, saying (in Spanish), "I am the artwork."
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Very excited to see the new Calder Gardens on the Parkway this weekend. Getting to listen to the Sun Ra Arkestra on Sunday is a joyous and unexpected bonus. www.inquirer.com/arts/calder-...
A photo of the outdoor landscaping of the new Calder Gardens sculpture park in Philadelphia, showing a mirrored, reflective structure and native plants under a blue sky with little puffy clouds and skyscrapers in the background.
September 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Graffito of the Week, No. 025: I Love Miami; Miami, 2015. #GotW
A graffiti painting on a concrete wall. The letters are in black with white outlining (I LOVE MIAMI), and the background is in fuschia with orangeish-pink accents.
September 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This guy was in my yard this morning, hunting squirrels.
September 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
The cover art for Kool Keith's album as Dr. Octagon, featuring a drawing of a skeleton in a black coat, holding a skull.
September 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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The famous drawing of Snoopy from Peanuts starting to type out his novel with the sentence, "It was a dark and stormy night," but with stormy replaced by "windless."
September 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Graffito of the Week, No. 024: Condors; Quito, 2010. #GotW
A painting of two condors on a concrete wall, about 2.5 meters tall. The condors are black with accents of yellow, olive green, red, and light blue; one condor is shedding a tear. The background is a stylized sun with concentric circles of different colors.
September 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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"A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies!"
A short clip from the movie Blade Runner, showing an advertisement for taking a job in space, "OFF WORLD," playing on a giant screen on an airship.
September 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I did this so you don’t have to. Pronounced nutmeg flavor overpowers the pumpkin. Not a hit with my tastebuds.
August 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Graffito of the Week, No. 023 (we return after a brief hiatus): Immigration Crisis/Un Horizonte Perdido; Barcelona, 2015. #GotW
A sepia-toned large-format photo mural of a North African migrant in Barcelona, from the back but with face in profile, from a series called Diálogos Invisibles. He is named in the text as Ibrahima Saydi.
August 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Graffito of the Week, No. 022: Typewriter; Philadelphia, 2015. #GotW
Graffiti of a typewriter in red, painted on a blank, beige door. Above the typewriter it says, "Face it, you are lovely. And that has nothing to do with your beautiful face."
August 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Graffito of the Week No. 021: Bass; Poble Sec (Barcelona), 2015. #GotW
A painting on a roll-screen steel door in front of a shop. The painting has a white and blue background; it has the figure of a goateed man in a black suit and fedora playing a brown stand-up bass.
July 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Graffito of the Week, No. 020: El Arte Es Basura; Barcelona 2011. This is absolutely one of my favorites. #GotW
A graffiti drawing in black marker on a white background of an indeterminate-creature pointy head with a flag sticking out of it. The flag reads, in blue ink, EL ARTE ES BASURA.
July 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Summer projects.
A photo of 2 glass jars of home-canned goods: one says garlic dill pickles and the other says curried zucchini pickles.
July 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Graffito of the Week, No. 019: Freedoms? (July 4th 2025 edition); Philadelphia, 2015. #GotW
Photo of a stenciled graffito on a sidewalk that says "FREEDOMS?"
July 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM