Thanks! As a Midwesterer I want to hear the Wanamaker Organ while I still can -

And shop at Taluto's (and other old school Italian grocers) when I return. I really love the S. 9th St. Italian Market Festival - but also hole-in-the-wall places like The Fire, Bob & Barbara's, and the Birthday Bar.

Thanks for sharing, Kai - Philly is one of my favorite cities - right up there with Chicago.

Philadelphia resonates as a true working-class city, with the labors of immigrants on every street and the hearts of the affluent generally in the right place. The city provides open space for the public to appreciate art, architecture, music, and history. Looking forward to a return soon.

The hat is just covering up the space between his ears so plants don't start growing in it.

ALL YOUR DATA ARE BELONG TO US

Once, we were a nation that respected its heritage and its laws and its families and its special places and diversity and beauty and art and...

* sigh *

Dammit - I won't settle for the current transformation to a sh*thole country. I'll fight to bring back the REAL greatness of America.

Without the willingness to face criticism, a nation dooms itself to collapsing from its hubris.

Probably typed by dozens of others - but for [that man] to go to those extremes to attempt to drown out and intimidate the Epstein survivors -

Whatever dirt is in there for him must be really, really ugly.

Like snuff film ugly.

I was going to type words.

But the post itself speaks to the level of the person doing the posting more than a million words ever could.

The sad truth is that 1) with cremation and with people scattering states away from where they were born, fewer people go to cemetaries anymore; and 2) the poorest kids had cheap headstones that have since worn away or disintegrated - if they had a marker at all.