Finally read this today and I should have long ago.
From the Poetry Center Archive: John Cheever reads "The Swimmer" | December 19, 1977
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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White
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Livejournal user #1004. Past: A Columbo podcast (https://thecitydesk.net/justonemorething/), Fake Criterions, Fake AP Stylebook, a fake old ad about soda for babies. Now: Real tired in South Philadelphia.
You can stuff your sorries in a sack, mister! / S09E08 The Betrayal
I think Casino was the movie that imprinted with Scorsese haters their classic complaint line “all he does are crime movies”
When FX got all of the SIMPSONS and I could go back and see any of them at once in 2014 or whatever it was exciting at first and then the feeling was off and the wonderful novelty of syndication went away.
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
"Saturday In the Park" was just on @wxpnfm.bsky.social, so here is the ridiculous Stella thing that is burned into my mind every single time I hear it anywhere.
Stella Shorts - Saturday
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Just a few blocks from where I live, it faces the lovely Girard Park.
Matthew Dessem@matthewdessem.bsky.social · last wk.It turns out the chicken man was a real guy, Philip Testa, with a real house, 2117 W. Porter St, Philadelphia, PA, which they really blew up on March 15, 1981.
That shadowy place way out there? That is beyond our borders. You must never go there. That is the Big Boy graveyard.
I miss picking up a book from Joseph Fox.
Which filmmakers have also written decent novels? John Sayles and Albert Brooks pop to mind, but who else?
Finally watching some of MATEWAN tonight, it only just hit me that EIGHT MEN OUT (which I’ve seen maybe 10 times?) is also a labor story, not just baseball history.
LeBron James should just take the train to his new job: defector.com/lebron-james...
LeBron James Should Just Take The Train To His New Job | Defector
LeBron James is coming to Philadelphia, a fact anyone who lives in Philly would have learned from interacting with strangers on the street, no matter their interest in basketball. This is salient…
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.
captain bleach@blainecapatch.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains
The success of CHINATOWN—with its beautifully structured script and draggy, overdeliberate direction—represents something dialectically new: nostalgia (for the thirties) openly turned to rot, and the celebration of rot. (1974)
I also will not be attending the Fancy Farm Picnic.
Politico@politico.com · last wk.McConnell to remain in rehab, will skip Fancy Farm picnic in Kentucky
Dan McQuade would have fucking loved this.
Mary Jones@tlachtga.bsky.social · 2w agoGood lord, that was fast. The boardwalk doesn’t sleep on the Sixers.
