I live in the neighborhood and had no idea what Ely Ave is or where it could possibly be until I finally dug around. 23rd st was the new name for Ely Ave when Queens started numbering streets. In 1915. Also, it’s been Court Sq since 2011.
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I live in the neighborhood and had no idea what Ely Ave is or where it could possibly be until I finally dug around. 23rd st was the new name for Ely Ave when Queens started numbering streets. In 1915. Also, it’s been Court Sq since 2011.
Remember before the 2010s when we didnt have a term for “soap opera strips”? The exasperation I felt in 2005 when I would try to describe Apartment 3G to my family and friends, but simply didn’t have the vocabulary. Thank you, Josh.
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Remember before the 2010s when we didnt have a term for “soap opera strips”? The exasperation I felt in 2005 when I would try to describe Apartment 3G to my family and friends, but simply didn’t have the vocabulary. Thank you, Josh.
I also know @ellenadair.bsky.social’s Hess Truck jingle well. But I heard it as a kid so I warm and fuzzy memories of it. Though I dont dispute any of her points.
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I also know @ellenadair.bsky.social’s Hess Truck jingle well. But I heard it as a kid so I warm and fuzzy memories of it. Though I dont dispute any of her points.
I literally only learned about black cowboys from Bruce Springsteen’s 2005 song Black Cowboys and his pre-song preamble about their history during the tour for that album. It is incredible how America history education has excised so many Americans.
December 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I literally only learned about black cowboys from Bruce Springsteen’s 2005 song Black Cowboys and his pre-song preamble about their history during the tour for that album. It is incredible how America history education has excised so many Americans.
Moldova, as I recall. Facebook political ragebait farms by teenagers on Moldova who found pro-Trump Posts got engagement while pro-Hillary ones didnt really. So great that there is zero incentive for this to stop in any way.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Moldova, as I recall. Facebook political ragebait farms by teenagers on Moldova who found pro-Trump Posts got engagement while pro-Hillary ones didnt really. So great that there is zero incentive for this to stop in any way.
I read The Right Stuff this summer. I bought it maybe 10 years ago and kept putting it off because of the length. I devoured it so fast because it is just so good.
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I read The Right Stuff this summer. I bought it maybe 10 years ago and kept putting it off because of the length. I devoured it so fast because it is just so good.
Lord you’re right. I don’t know why 60s came out of me. That’s probably early 50s. in the mean time, I’ve always tried to figure out “The Original Ha Cha Inn”
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Lord you’re right. I don’t know why 60s came out of me. That’s probably early 50s. in the mean time, I’ve always tried to figure out “The Original Ha Cha Inn”
I live in western Queens. I can look out my window and see all the way to the Hudson side of Manhattan. This is a photo from the 60s hanging in my neighborhood . it takes rough weather to make the ESB this obscured today:
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I live in western Queens. I can look out my window and see all the way to the Hudson side of Manhattan. This is a photo from the 60s hanging in my neighborhood . it takes rough weather to make the ESB this obscured today:
I learned this at 17, worked in a video store. The Green Mile had just been released and I overheard a mother and her maybe 12 yo son discuss it: mom: what’s this movie about Son: oh i heard shot it. It’s about a guy who didn’t do it and another guy believed him. mom: Well, I don’t want to see that.
October 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I learned this at 17, worked in a video store. The Green Mile had just been released and I overheard a mother and her maybe 12 yo son discuss it: mom: what’s this movie about Son: oh i heard shot it. It’s about a guy who didn’t do it and another guy believed him. mom: Well, I don’t want to see that.
Of the thousands of comics books I have read in my life, the scene where Jean comforts Jubilee regarding Ilyana’s death is one that has stayed in my brain since I read it. It ordered the concept of grief and mourning to my young brain like few things ever have.
October 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Of the thousands of comics books I have read in my life, the scene where Jean comforts Jubilee regarding Ilyana’s death is one that has stayed in my brain since I read it. It ordered the concept of grief and mourning to my young brain like few things ever have.
She has no integrity. Anyone with a shred of integrity would have refused to be nominated by a historically unpopular president to Ginsburg’s seat a month and change out from an election. But, like Gorsuch, happy to consume their ill-gotten gains. So many SCOTUS Catholics, so little guilt.
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
She has no integrity. Anyone with a shred of integrity would have refused to be nominated by a historically unpopular president to Ginsburg’s seat a month and change out from an election. But, like Gorsuch, happy to consume their ill-gotten gains. So many SCOTUS Catholics, so little guilt.
My mother was a catholic school first grade teacher (lower pay than public school teachers). My brothers and I would go to teacher supply stores during the summer where she’d buy her decorations and help get the classroom ready for the new school year.
August 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
My mother was a catholic school first grade teacher (lower pay than public school teachers). My brothers and I would go to teacher supply stores during the summer where she’d buy her decorations and help get the classroom ready for the new school year.
My six year old got the whole dogman box set for christmas and, conservatively, has read all 13 or whatever books five times a piece, and then she learned about the catkid spin off. She genuinely consumes them faster than she eats actual food.
August 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My six year old got the whole dogman box set for christmas and, conservatively, has read all 13 or whatever books five times a piece, and then she learned about the catkid spin off. She genuinely consumes them faster than she eats actual food.