Yammy Frazier 🍁 🦃 🍁
@riversaredamp.bsky.social
A limited-edition fall flavor…
I’m still Oklahoma's ambassador to Philadelphia. Tulanian. Lapsed sociologist. Lawyer (but not yours). Beer drinker. Sports-obsessed. He/him. Terribly fond of @cccamac.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
I’m still Oklahoma's ambassador to Philadelphia. Tulanian. Lapsed sociologist. Lawyer (but not yours). Beer drinker. Sports-obsessed. He/him. Terribly fond of @cccamac.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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Things @cccamac.bsky.social and I should open in Old City:
—a super-secret eight-seater sherry bar
—a snowball stand
—hearts and minds
—sesame
—a super-secret eight-seater sherry bar
—a snowball stand
—hearts and minds
—sesame
“Most monarchs weigh 500 to 600 milligrams, so each tag-bearing migrator making the transcontinental journey is, by weight, equivalent to a half-raisin carrying three uncooked grains of rice.”
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We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“Most monarchs weigh 500 to 600 milligrams, so each tag-bearing migrator making the transcontinental journey is, by weight, equivalent to a half-raisin carrying three uncooked grains of rice.”
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BREAKING: We’re getting six (!) edible mascots at this year’s @poptartsbowl.com!
- six edible mascots, three on Team Sprinkles and three on Team Swirls
- fans get to vote on which mascot team to sacrifice to Mouth Heaven at game’s end, the biggest edible mascot sacrifice EVER
- six edible mascots, three on Team Sprinkles and three on Team Swirls
- fans get to vote on which mascot team to sacrifice to Mouth Heaven at game’s end, the biggest edible mascot sacrifice EVER
November 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
BREAKING: We’re getting six (!) edible mascots at this year’s @poptartsbowl.com!
- six edible mascots, three on Team Sprinkles and three on Team Swirls
- fans get to vote on which mascot team to sacrifice to Mouth Heaven at game’s end, the biggest edible mascot sacrifice EVER
- six edible mascots, three on Team Sprinkles and three on Team Swirls
- fans get to vote on which mascot team to sacrifice to Mouth Heaven at game’s end, the biggest edible mascot sacrifice EVER
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Philadelphia ginkgos. I stalk them when the leaves turn. They went extinct in the Americas years ago but I’m glad they’re back.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Philadelphia ginkgos. I stalk them when the leaves turn. They went extinct in the Americas years ago but I’m glad they’re back.
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: The Smashing Pumpkins (28) Pearl Jam (19) Nirvana (18) Talking Heads (16) Big Star (14). #myweekcounted 176 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: The Smashing Pumpkins (28) Pearl Jam (19) Nirvana (18) Talking Heads (16) Big Star (14). #myweekcounted 176 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
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Someone told Hal Linden that Lynda Carter was naturally going to be the hottest one in the group pic and he took it as a personal challenge.
BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS debuted #OTD in 1976.
ABC's winning team included (L-R) Robert Hegyes + Gabe Kaplan (WELCOME BACK, KOTTER), Penny Marshall (LAVERNE & SHIRLEY), Hal Linden (BARNEY MILLER), Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) + John Schuck (HOLMES & YOYO).
What a time to be alive. #ClassicTV
ABC's winning team included (L-R) Robert Hegyes + Gabe Kaplan (WELCOME BACK, KOTTER), Penny Marshall (LAVERNE & SHIRLEY), Hal Linden (BARNEY MILLER), Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) + John Schuck (HOLMES & YOYO).
What a time to be alive. #ClassicTV
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Someone told Hal Linden that Lynda Carter was naturally going to be the hottest one in the group pic and he took it as a personal challenge.
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English education touches down in Tokyo | Subtitle
Japanese universities go global, Manitoba's bilingual aspirations, and a Welsh translation mishap.
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Translation: Keep your icky cyclocross out of our pristine snow.
Winter Olympics sports resist push to add cyclocross and cross-country running to their program
GENEVA (AP) — Organizers of traditional snow and ice sports said Wednesday they do not want events from summer federations added to their Winter Olympics program.
ca.sports.yahoo.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Translation: Keep your icky cyclocross out of our pristine snow.
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Everyone’s freezing face in Philly today, knowing it should absolutely still be fall.
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Everyone’s freezing face in Philly today, knowing it should absolutely still be fall.
“Under current sumo traditions, women are not allowed in the ring.” It’s time (long past, of course) for that to change.
Takaichi May Not Step into Sumo Ring
Tokyo, Nov. 11 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may not step into the ring during a closin…
www.nippon.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Under current sumo traditions, women are not allowed in the ring.” It’s time (long past, of course) for that to change.
This entry from GMEU may be useful today.
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This entry from GMEU may be useful today.
The Weather Channel app wants to be my mommy.
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The Weather Channel app wants to be my mommy.
“’It's a love story. It wasn't anything dirty,’ Peterson told a reporter in 2013. ’I could not be happier with anybody in the world. ”Mama” and I go out and party every night. We're still on the honeymoon and it has been a real blessing.’“
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“’It's a love story. It wasn't anything dirty,’ Peterson told a reporter in 2013. ’I could not be happier with anybody in the world. ”Mama” and I go out and party every night. We're still on the honeymoon and it has been a real blessing.’“
I was really taken today with these Kimberly Winkle pieces at a show (A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance) at Philly’s Museum for Art in Wood. The show is up through February 15.
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I was really taken today with these Kimberly Winkle pieces at a show (A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance) at Philly’s Museum for Art in Wood. The show is up through February 15.
OMG
Breaking news per Jeff Passan: “Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been indicted by prosecutors in Brooklyn on a host of charges related to a scheme to rig bets on pitches thrown in MLB games. Ortiz was arrested in Boston earlier today. Clase is not currently in custody”
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
OMG
The first eppy of Replay Booth, @joshuablevin.bsky.social’s new sports history podcast, is sensational. Highly recommended! I can’t wait to hear more.
I'm thrilled to announce the pilot episode for a new sports history podcast called Replay Booth. The pilot, "Wilbur Huckle for President," is live now. If you liked Slow Burn and/or One Year and/or Hang Up and Listen, you'll love this www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...
www.replaybooth.show
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The first eppy of Replay Booth, @joshuablevin.bsky.social’s new sports history podcast, is sensational. Highly recommended! I can’t wait to hear more.
We can do better, folks.
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We can do better, folks.
Hey, I just saw this! It’s on loan to the Whitney for its Sixties Surreal exhibit.
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Hey, I just saw this! It’s on loan to the Whitney for its Sixties Surreal exhibit.
I’m super-excited that the Philadelphia Orchestra received a GRAMMY nom for its Still & Bonds recording. I particularly love Margaret Bonds’s “Montgomery Variations,” an important, moving, and overlooked piece. And the Orchestra does the work proud.
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I’m super-excited that the Philadelphia Orchestra received a GRAMMY nom for its Still & Bonds recording. I particularly love Margaret Bonds’s “Montgomery Variations,” an important, moving, and overlooked piece. And the Orchestra does the work proud.
You have to love a GRAMMY category that pits the Dalai Lama against Justice Jackson.
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
You have to love a GRAMMY category that pits the Dalai Lama against Justice Jackson.
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Sault (21) Buddy Holly & The Crickets (18) Los Originarios del Plan (17) Lily Allen (15) Arcade Fire (13). #myweekcounted 194 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Sault (21) Buddy Holly & The Crickets (18) Los Originarios del Plan (17) Lily Allen (15) Arcade Fire (13). #myweekcounted 194 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
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A late streetcar and an early Christmas tree, New Orleans
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A late streetcar and an early Christmas tree, New Orleans
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November 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Went to the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition today and, inevitably, it was absolutely delicious.
Cup of Coffee, 1961
Cup of Coffee, 1961
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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It’s 13 years later, but Abe looks remarkably the same. (@ The New York Historical)
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It’s 13 years later, but Abe looks remarkably the same. (@ The New York Historical)
I see only one word in today’s NYT Spelling Bee.
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I see only one word in today’s NYT Spelling Bee.