Thank you! I wanted a Philly theme for my user name, and this one makes me hungry.

Philly can be counted on to produce some crazy news. Don’t forget the ongoing fun of the Phillies season! ... I live in Center City and many people I know are dreading the anticipated congestion of the Papal visit and are finding ways to be out of town that week.

Right under 52nd Street Station? Aren’t you lucky? It’s funny, when I went to Google street view, from some perspectives the celebrity likenesses are visible and from others they are not. I imagine they could be installed or removed fairly easily. But the city better leave Patti LaBelle and Teddy Pendergrass alone!

I grew up in Sacramento and my mom worked for city government. She observed firsthand the petty turf wars of mid-sized city bureaucracy (I should add, under previous mayors, not KJ, who took office after she retired). I will not move back. Unfortunately, many cities are like this because venal people are venal. Are…

Totally. I came here to say, I can’t wait for this kid’s private equity firm to buy my company, lay us all off, liquidate the assets and not pay out our retirement, so that I can greet people at Walmart in my dotage.

Either you’re just really lucky, or live in a non-windy, polite place with big, wide spots. At my old office in Pennsylvania, our landlord hired some guy with a painting truck to paint over the old white lines demarcating the ample parking spots in the office lot, and paint new white lines that were at least eight…

I started my simulation in Miami (because Florida obvs) using α=0 and μ=1, and it spread across the south quickly but slowed at the Mississippi River. Boston, Chicago and Houston were overrun simultaneously, and for some reason the Pacific coast was infected from north to south, running down I-5 from Seattle to San…

Agreed. The receptacles are on your way out! It’s the right thing to do. I have a friend who sees truckloads of movies - belongs to a local film society, travels out of town for film festivals, etc. - and he always leaves his drink cup in the cupholder. Granted, it’s not the worst movie theater sin, but it’s…

Thanks for posting this. I visited this site around 1985 when it was still under construction through one of the contractors, before the Challenger explosion changed the government’s plans. I remember the contractor discussing its value as a launch site for polar-orbit satellites and vehicles because there’s…

For serious. I did my summer geology field camp in the Sierra Nevada and the FIRST lesson we received from the professor before the trip was about how to deal with bear encounters during the eight weeks of camping. In addition, there was a sidebar for the ladies on how to deal with their feminine products when that…

Was it Jim’s? Please tell me it was Jim’s, which is my SO’s favorite steak place. They can be ruthless there, but I get it.

Positive anymore is very commonly used in the greater Philadelphia region.