Cruising around the neighborhood today, trying to find used tires with no luck. However, the guy who worked at one of the shops LOVES old Hondas and told me to come back when I was ready to sell.
Woo hoo!
Category: Life in the Big City
Happy anniversary
It’s been twenty years since I started blogging, and one year since I got my ’97 Accord beater. (Clip art. The only thing mine has in common with this picture is the color.) I was thinking about this the other day – I don’t think I’ve owned a car this ratty looking in twenty years.
I took it for an oil change this morning (I put oil in some months ago, but didn’t change it because I didn’t do much driving this year). Got some high-mileage oil and my fluids topped off. Slight oil and transmission leak, yadda yadda yadda. At this age, what can you expect?
On the way out, I noticed my tires are looking a little too smooth. Gonna look around and see if I can find some decent used tires., postpone the inevitable. If you have any and you live nearby, hit me up.
In the meantime, from my City of Homes, here’s a story about how so many Philadelphians can’t afford a home anymore. Coming to an urban area near you!
Got ‘im
Man who spotted NYC subway shooting suspect, flagged down officers speaks out https://t.co/RL1PvDRn97 via @6abc
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) April 13, 2022
We can all now thank a Syrian refugee for shutting down the Brooklyn subway shooter.
He would indeed be best thanked by tripling the reward money. 😊 https://t.co/XQPfEsbfZb
— SpaceyG 🇺🇸 (@SpaceyG) April 13, 2022
Spent a lot of time going through this guy's videos. He is a 9/11 truther who ardently supports Putin and is hoping that white people conduct a Holocaust-level genocide against Blacks.
Thanks to @RVAwonk.https://t.co/hJTbpv15WX
— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) April 13, 2022
Things to come?
Philadelphia reinstates indoor mask mandate https://t.co/4GTMHgrzkU
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) April 11, 2022
All those things you think and don’t say out loud
February is the worst month of the year and this man is wonderful pic.twitter.com/vV73ZF2Qn4
— Alexis Benveniste (@apbenven) February 4, 2022
Thanks for all the very kind words about my report on February. I thought it was just me, but apparently a lot of us feel near to flickering out this month. I avoid all major decisions in February—vacuuming, haircuts, swing dance lessons. The right path will emerge by spring.
— Kevin Killeen (@KMOXKilleen) February 5, 2022
The message
The door was required by law to be self-closing but was broken. The space heater was being used in a building with four complaints about lack of heat in 2021. It's owned by a group of investors that includes a company co-founded by a member of Adams' own transition team. https://t.co/k3GFeoY3UM
— Evan Hill (@evanhill) January 10, 2022
NIMBY
LA City Council approves controversial affordable housing project in heart of Venice Beach https://t.co/b0ahfihnwx
— Hillel Aron (@hillelaron) December 1, 2021
The police, um, fabricated this story
I’m happy to hear that my fellow citizens aren’t quite as depersonalized as I thought! As Atrios wrote, “Cops lie all the time, journalists dutifully type it up, and no one gets in trouble and few hear the retractions.”
#BREAKING: Passengers didn't sit around and “callously” record video of a rape aboard a SEPTA train for their own gratification without contacting authorities, Delco DA says, reversing police narrative. https://t.co/rvf8pxC3Gv
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) October 21, 2021
I guess I should say something about this
Am I disgusted? Of course. Am I shocked? Not a bit. I live in a city where almost every day, children are shot and killed. Young people shot to death over things that hardly seem worth a punch. It seems like everyone in this place is just numb to other people, probably because their lives are pretty shitty themselves. So yeah, I can see where they pulled out their phones and recorded a woman being raped. She wasn’t real, it was just another story.
As a woman was raped on a public transit train in Philadelphia last week, riders held up their cellphones and pointed them in the direction of the sexual assault instead of calling 911, authorities say.https://t.co/nn5kauemsm
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 19, 2021
Have you noticed?
🍞🥑 Food is getting more expensive in the U.S., and it's not just due to Covid 🥑🍞https://t.co/hXpdqvANMK
— Alex (@aroseblush) September 27, 2021