Suffice it to say that the situation reported on by @jkjenkinney.bsky.social last month has…not improved. 😔 www.phillymag.com/news/2025/10...

I remember him giving a paper on Bing Crosby at EMP in like…2004?

lol, I have some merch from the 30th anniversary concert!

Maybe instead of a kids table we will have a baby boomer table.

Particularly excited for Thanksgiving because I attended a silver polishing workshop a few weeks ago. #reasonfortheseason

At least I have enough china.

My friend who is also a pecan pie hater is making these as a compromise: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015...

Tho strangely not as many times as I would have predicted.

A movie and a dinner at Panera next-door, what’s not to love?

It’s at the Penn Cinemark pretty much every hour on the hour!

And the most environmentally-sustainable building technique of all is to keep using a building that was already built 100 years ago!

New market-rate apartment buildings have been going up, and that’s fine, there’s plenty of vacant land, but all of it is too small and too expensive for families—the whole trickle-down theory affordability does not work if the existing dense housing stock goes away.

Desegregated public schools depend upon desegregated housing, and one of the magical things about our neighborhood has always been the mix of housing types that help produce a school that is more diverse than most in the city. But one of part of the equation is literally burning down.

To add on to my quote in there; the neighboring elementary school has a catchment divide between large Victorian twins that are getting increasingly expensive, and large apartment buildings that are quite affordable. In recent memory, three of those apartment buildings have been gutted by fire.