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Puzzle #853
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#yellowllast might be harder than #purplefirst
Iβm glad the Phillies NLDS game isnβt in Philly tonight. Playing in this rain would really suck.
Said no one ever.
IT'S FASCISM!!
11.10.2025 01:48 β π 2825 π 1276 π¬ 58 π 43My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
It being anti fascist, anti fascism is wrong then I donβt want to be right.
Hitler was a fascist
Mussolini was a fascist
Trump is a fascist
This was my first bike.
#truestory
Upper level seats $476?
10.10.2025 20:27 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0With a life sciences expansion in southeast Camden, PATCO should really think about building that Gateway infill station by Newtown-Haddon Ave... @thephillyguy.bsky.social
njbmagazine.com/njb-news-now...
Thatβs another question for next monthβ¦
And our meeting next DRPACAC month will be in-person, 1st since the pandemic. You are welcome to come and ask questions yourself.
Pa. is the only state without a budget. Where lawmakers stands 100 days late www.goerie.com/story/news/p... via @GoErie
10.10.2025 10:39 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Talk radio should be fun tomorrow amirite
10.10.2025 02:54 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From the DRPAβ¦
Betsy Ross Bridge Travel Alert
Guide rail repairs & sign gantry replacement scheduled:
Thu, Oct 9 (9AMβ3PM): Rt 90 E β Rt 130 N/S ramps CLOSED
Fri, Oct 10 (9AMβ3PM): Rt 130 S β Rt 90 W ramps CLOSED
To learn more about ongoing projects: drpa.org/projects
Reminderβ¦
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is in Bethesda, MD
Walter Rand Transportation Center is in Camden, NJ
Pretty sure Cubic is the vendor but gotta wait till next month for more info
09.10.2025 17:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hero image for Standard Ebooks showing nicely-formatted Sherlock Holmes book on phones, tablets, kindles and ereaders
It's been a while since I've seen it mentioned, so if you did happen to pick up a Kindle in the sales this week (π), check out the Standard Ebooks project for hundreds of public domain works with good metadata, proofreading, and nice cover art: https://standardebooks.org
09.10.2025 14:57 β π 5 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0Take my money (literally, just ordered one)
09.10.2025 11:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Update from last nightβs DRPACAC meetingβ¦
Open payment system coming to PATCO fare gates before the end of the year!
www.ridepatco.org/projects/tic...
So excited to see the Phillies NLDS game tonight at Dodgers Stadium with my friend Jimmy McGuire from Jeopardy!
So excited to see the Phillies NLDS game tonight at Dodgers Stadium with my friend Jimmy!
Go Phils!
Check out some of my favorite books on @bookshop.org
bookshop.org/lists/larry-...
Iβve asked before, PATCO isnβt interested in opening new lines
08.10.2025 18:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think youβre more asking about the GCL?
glassborocamdenline.com
Probably. You have a specific question?
08.10.2025 17:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0We have a DRPA CAC meeting tonight. Who has any DRPA/PATCO related questions?
08.10.2025 11:46 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1The United States president, who is a pedophile, is currently leading a government shutdown because he is semi-illiterate and professionally destitute in the basic functions of civil government and his lackeys are refusing to remediate this because it would reveal that said president is a pedophile.
07.10.2025 14:58 β π 531 π 95 π¬ 1 π 0I love our Ioniq 5 and try to use the free charging when I can. But charging to 80% at home usually costs $5-$7.
Donβt understand why more people donβt get EVs
club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce: The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland. After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias "Impossible Interview" come true. As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky. Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck. They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo - over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked. Parker didn't just happen toβ¦
Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland
08.10.2025 00:46 β π 228 π 50 π¬ 5 π 7If you, like me, try to limit your Amazon shopping, you can still benefit from Prime Day deals by shopping the sales that other, non-Amazon retailers put on to compete with APD.
For example, I need some new sheets. I can buy them directly through the company website at a similar discount right now.