Phil Gentry

Very disappointed to learn that 911: Nashville is not a spin-off of Reno.

I really love the city of Richmond, Virginia, it’s a great place, but the downtown area has a very discomfiting architectural vibe in that, more than other state capitol areas, you can really tell they once aspired to empire.

also, Philadelphia's own Central High School. Truly formed by our city. 😬

I'm on the train behind some of the rudest, most entitled elderly people I have ever experienced in a public setting, and I am digging deep to feel empathy for the experience of aging and its discomforts and dislocations, but it doesn't help to read about 85yo congressmen running for re-election. 🫠

I’m on a work trip for three nights, basically the longest I have been away from my children in awhile, so I’m preparing by watching all those videos of soldiers coming home early to surprise their kids.

Kind of comforting there is still a market for ghostwriting in the chatgpt era.

This is however definitely good news for the unrelated radio show’s brand identity.

Sorry to miss it, I’m not getting in until this evening!

I mean, given that the school bombing happened early on the first day of a war that was completely premeditated, not sure we should make some sort ”fast-moving” fog of war claim. They had all the time in the world to choose those first targets.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

The Inquirer liked it back then, at least: "Masculine, yet not devoid of melodious themes, it begins with dignity, has a sustained beauty from first to last, and closes with majesty."

Philadelphia Orchestra has the opportunity to do the FUNNIEST thing.

One way you know classical music organizations are cowardly is that for their big patriotic 250th concerts I have yet to see anyone program the "Centennial March" that Richard Wagner wrote for Philadelphia in 1876. 😈

A new PSSHE campus, a city history museum, a renovated mall, Jefferson, and an intercity bus terminal…it’s like every failed/troubled institution you can imagine in one op-ed.

A PSSHE campus on market east has got to be one of the all-time dumbest ideas I have ever encountered.

I’m currently at a children’s a basketball game and I just realized the refs are using whistles I recognize as being from a local anti-ICE group. 😅

How do I restablish parental authority with these children

Oh to be a 10yo who can’t stop reading.

“The United States attacked Iran military sites.” That is not an accurate description of the events of Saturday—civilians including children were also attacked—and the bloodless framing devoid of any context is exactly what Trump is going for.

Amazing how pro-war ideology filters down even to the mundane bullet points stations like @wxpnfm.bsky.social reads out on the air.

I like how much my oldest kid enjoys doing Muay Thai, but I’m worried they are going to start requiring leg tattoos any day now.

You would never know from any mainstream media converge that the vast majority of Americans are against attacking Iran; one assumes they are waiting to report on that until said coverage changes the poll numbers.

Or his work on the Board of Pardons, a politically thankless task which was one of the main reasons I supported him.

Another 15 minutes of war cheerleading on the radio on my way to the train station this morning. Liberal-coded “neutral” news outlets look to present “expertise,” but don’t mention that their definition of expertise is “personal experience in attacking Iran in a previous admin. ”

Listening to NPR’s coverage of the war and it’s been 15 straight minutes of cheerleading and stenography of Trump’s talking points.

Finally something funny in the Epstein files.

One of the challenges of having your brain pickled by social media, as mine is, is that when you hear academics talking about contemporary issues, I just…know too much? Like, somebody will make a point and it’s like, oh sorry we were talking about that on bluesky a month ago, it’s over now.

There’s still some residual part of my brain that, when I enter a hotel room, goes “ooh, flat screen tv, fancy!”

Norman Lebrecht suffering any kind of consequence for his toxic approach to music “journalism” is a vibe shift that I will celebrate.

Walking through independence Mall and it remains wild how little got done before 2026. I realize some of it will be ready for July 4, but just an insane missed opportunity by the city and the NPS.

I’m sure you’re right, and I think basically it’s just become wrapped up in those kind of commercial real estate issues, and G&H were just never very concerned with legacy stuff. They’ve never wanted to talk to scholars/biographers or anything like that.