Camille Bacon-Smith

The boozy business of the American Revolution went down in Philly bars Revolutionary-era drinking and tavern life, and its role in America’s founding 250 years ago, will be explored in full at a Nov. 21 after hours event at the Museum of the American Revolution.

Figures. The country's drunk uncle started the revolution.

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I used to dress in my business clothes on airplanes, but back then the seats were wider and you had a lot more leg room, so you could actually reach your destination ready to hit the office straight from the airport. Would not try that today!

a husky dog with a collar is sitting on a couch looking at the camera . ALT: a husky dog with a collar is sitting on a couch looking at the camera .

Ohhhh my *god*

A friend is over, TMI they’re having an IBS flare-up.

Velveteen starts HOWLING & HUSKYTALKING full of INDIGNATION.

I said: “You need to go out?”

No reaction.

“You had dinner!”

Nothing.

“…are you mad about the farts?”

She BELLOWS & started chasing my friend out of the room

Vanity Fair is so funny!

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Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out

Oh, no! Take care of yourself!

I have heard her discuss her choices in translating the Odyssey. She is just amazing--clear, and funny, and insightful, and she had cool powerpoints with pictures from Greek vases and mosaics like paper cutouts to illustrate her points.

Yeah, how long before "Operation Achilles and His Very Good Friend Patroclus"?

I'm glad that I'm not the only one recognizing some parallels between modern tech and science and medicine in the early 20th century. A little less move fast and break things and a little more IRBs.

It's dreadful. I feel frustrated for you, but also, arts reporting is just dying. The arts too. Art schools and programs in the arts and humanities are shutting down. STEM is devouring the world and trying to kill the arts in their wake. We are in a bad place.

Too much attention rots the brain.

A n’Art purpose but an Art form?

evil ages you fast

Both?

Even people working a con gotta eat

Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend

Seems fitting that Aaron Judge’s MVP video is narrated by physicist Brian Greene

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

Do I think the Pope looks cool here? I do.

Do I think it would be cooler if he stood up for our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings and smacked around the American Bishops who voted to deny trans care in Catholic hospitals today? Yeah. I do. WAY fucking cooler.

I have been telling people Larry Summers is a sleazeball since he was working in the Clinton White House. Maybe now they'll listen?

Heads up, writer friends. For the second time I received a cute email from an 11 year old asking if I'd read their short story and give feedback. Story Not an attachment but a link. Be safe. Delete. Do not respond. Emails virtually identical but for boy/girl name.

I’m at the annual paleontology conference. Here’s how people today have described their work:

“I basically study swamp monsters”
“I’m a dinosaur orthodontist”
“Dead bird bird watcher”

#2025SVP

bunch of executives on the deck of a ship with only one guy rowing and a quote "I don't understand, after so many budget cuts why dont we move faster?"

ooof this feels like most every university rn

He was very good in Life As a House, though.

I suspect that if he'd been a tad less pretty, he'd have escaped the mega franchise catastrophe and he'd be the darling of indie projects of the heart everywhere.

Just sent money to Philabundance. I sometimes think they are feeding half the city!

I always figured it was a code name, that they were all different guys and they took their real names back when they retired to a flat in London or a villa somewhere in Tuscany

Hey #Dodgers fans, did you have an interaction with the LAPD in Echo Park the night of the World Series victory? The Echo Park Neighborhood Council is compiling stories about what happened so we can address the issue. You can stay anonymous. DM me.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Last month, two of my favorite ballet dancers, from two different companies, doing completely different things at the time, had fractures to the same bone in the foot. It was the first injury for both of them. A strange, and unfortunate coincidence.