David Murrell

The linguistic equivalent of sailing it over the catcher’s head

The PhAM sounds like the name of the fan club for a third-rate semi-professional sports franchise like in ultimate frisbee…

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a new name and other plans to revive attendance Chasing an elusive pandemic recovery, the museum is rolling out a slew of changes. It includes a new name and logo, and an embracing of dips into sports, hip hop, and Sylvester Stallone.

Dying to know how much the PMA paid some marketers for the suggestion that they change their name and its universally known acronym to … the “PhAM.” Incredible work. Congrats on the rebrand!

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Luzardo dealing like this is huge for the rec specs community. Keep it up!! 👓

A Century Later, the Parkway’s Grand Vision May Finally Come True Ben Franklin Parkway is one of Philadelphia’s most dangerous roads — not to mention an abysmal place to walk. The solution? Redesign the entire thing — all the way from Logan Circle to the Art Museum.

For years, planners, architects, and city officials have quietly worked to reimagine Philly's Ben Franklin Parkway. Now that work is set to become a reality.

@dmurrell.bsky.social and @phillymag.com with an exclusive first look at the new (and vastly improved) Parkway:

Good news, the pedestrian experience along the Parkway is about to get less horrific! I wrote about the years-in-the-making redesign for Philly Mag. www.phillymag.com/news/2025/09...

If you’re not literally dreaming about your fantasy team getting a Caleb Williams td pass to Rome Odunze, then you’re not sufficiently locked in. Skill issue... #TEAMZAG

There should be a way to short the performance of privately owned businesses... I would have made a fortune off of Bankroll, and I'm ready to do it all again for these Wonder "food halls"... and maybe, just maybe, even the F1 arcade...

SPOTTED: Yannick nezet seguin literally front row of the US open Sinner vs Aliassime match 👀👀👀

Weird lowkey positive consequence of septa cuts is that the bsl is actually somewhat crowded at rush hour, instead of feeling strangely unpopulated. Feels like riding the subway in nyc. Kinda nice! More people should ride the subway.

It happened again. 0 for 2 trying to get to Wayne Pennsylvania this week during rush hour on regional rail’s most busy line 👍👍 love to live in a functional city

I haven’t been to quizzo in years but this is devastating 😭😭 I loved Johnny goodtimes so much I wrote a (mediocre and corny but also not as bad as I would have expected) profile of him for the student magazine while in college www.34st.com/article/2016...

The thing about septa is it’s already completely unusable if you have to use it to get places regularly. Ex: if you were taking the main line to the burbs today at rush hour, too bad! Two consecutive trains canceled. Even if they get funding it’s like…great, this is the status quo we get to keep👍👍

The first couple days after the trolley blitz are the best time of the year. A beautiful, fleeting vision of What Could Be Possible 😇😍

New York mag’s Hamptons issue was low key a stroke of genius… more glossy ads here than you usually see in an issue by like 10x 😮😮 saving journalism!

I can’t decide whether it’s worse to have no countdown clocks on your transit system or one where your app says the bus is coming when it’s not actually running. Luckily, septa provides both experiences - often on the very same day!

It’s such a shame I wasn’t a baseball prodigy because I really feel the MLB would have benefitted from my walk up song, Sufjan Stevens’s “Concerning the UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois.”

Sinner? More like Dinner, cause Alcaraz is cooking… 🔥🔥

WHERE’S ZASLAV?? HE’S MISSING THE COMEBACK!!

Is there an alternate cast for this French open final where I don’t have to see Bob Kraft and Spike Lee courtside every other shot??

It’s just so cruel that the pacers are gonna make the finals and we aren’t gonna get them playing the Jazz in the all-highlighter-yellow matchup we deserve 😭

Rather sad that this has proven to be the greatest Utah Jazz basketball achievement during my lifetime of fandom so far…

Every time Mike Conley misses a shot I’m so stunned… like that’s the nba pandemic HORSE champion Mike Conley….

ABOLISH ALL LOTTERIES

See, this is why we should fund septa. Much more reliable mode of transportation! Instead of replacing these two $67 million planes, just cut septa a check!!

Why wasn’t the Vatican City band playing a cover of “We No Speak Americano” by DCUP, aka the “Papa Americano” song, to introduce the new pope? This is an insult to all Americans!!

Wake me up when we have the first Gen Z pope. Until then? Not interested.

This is a real quote from someone working in Philadelphia government opposing an affordable housing project. Incredible! www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Josh Harris just got $500M from DC -- real cost more like $1B -- to build a new stadium.

Something tells me the initial sixers arena deal, i.e. not taxpayer funded, is going to end up looking very good in hindsight. Which probably explains why Josh Harris abandoned it at the last second.

Shouldn’t it be MORE work to remove pulp? And yet somehow we are still getting less pulp in the allegedly pulpy products. They’re intentionally messing with us…