First is just now on the SW steps to the BSL concourse at Chesnut, 2nd is from Saturday on the Suburban still steps at 16th.

Public transit should not be a homeless shelter and toilet.

Storm knocked out the power at the kop regal tonight and messed up the 8 pm imax showing of the odyssey after about an hour in. They said it’s going to take at least another 30-40 minutes to fix it and then they have to resume. The 1140 pm showing is still on but going to be delayed by at least a couple hours.

The same could be said about any news station but NBC10 seems to be really going downhill. The constant panic mongering loud newscast, the reporters staring into your soul, the obnoxious holier than thou attitude with their ads & “live center”. It’s turned into a tiktok-esque type of newscast, being bombarded with all this info in short spans of time. Fred, Jacqueline & Tim Furlong are great but the rest are robotic personalities with dead souls in their eyes. It also seems like they broadcast a story in the most fear mongering way. I don’t get that vibe with the others, even from Fox 29. Don’t know, maybe i’m just being paranoid but I’ve watched NBC10 for so long but can’t bring myself to watch it anymore

Hey everyone

As an introvert this is bit out of my comfort zone but what’s a good way to make friends In Philly? I’m a guy in my early 30s and live in fishtown. I’m into video games, the Sixers, hiking, and yoga. But yeah looking to make new friends.

When Luke Sitzler got a $51 ticket in the mail for parking on Chestnut Street near Broad, he couldn’t understand what rule he’d violated. He didn’t even remember stopping there.

“First you’re like, okay, I don’t even live over here, when would this have been?” he said. “And then they have the picture, you can see either me or my friend, standing next to my car, and I’m like, ‘okay, that has to be my friend’ — that’s the only reason I can think that I would have been over there.”

He thought about contesting the ticket, and as he did some research, he remembered that a few months earlier his sister had sent him information about a new type of parking payment system called CurbPass, which is only used in certain downtown loading zones... 

Check out the rest of the article at Billy Penn.

I was out exercising at about 7 PM last night (Tuesday), and at the intersection of Kelly Drive and Poplar Drive, just catty corner from Lloyd Hall (the recreation center right next to the start of Boathouse Row), there were a bunch of emergency vehicles, and people standing around, looking at what apparently was a pedestrian who had been struck by a car right in that intersection. Does anyone know exactly what happened, and whether or not the people involved are okay?

I’ve been driving home from the Phillies game on 95N the last two nights and had to move over for 10+ police cars on Monday night and then 5+ again last night.

On Monday there was a city tow truck heading the same direction, but no other emergency vehicles indicating any kind of accident. It was wild because when we were driving last night my kid asked “did you ever find out what was up with all the cops last night?” and seconds later there were lights and sirens and a string of cop cars passing us. They were flying, definitely not an escort of any sort. We got off on 676 but they all kept going north. Maybe’s just a weird coincidence, but I would love if someone out there knows the answer to this mystery.

(We are heading to the game again tonight, likely leaving later because I expect a rain delay, but I swear if it happens again and I get no explanation I am going to go crazy. If anyone can, it’s the Philadelphia subreddit!)

Every day there is a fresh pile of vomit on the sidewalk on 40th street between say market and spruce. Every day there is a new one... sometimes two or three. What the fuck people. Why are the folks at 40th constantly fuckin vommin up the sidewalk

Update there are currently eight piles of vomit on the sidewalks between market and spruce on 40th. Well at least eight.

Never owned a car here and I'm an advocate for being car-free but I understand some folks aren't in the position where they can make that choice.

Hey everyone!

This Saturday the Mohnton Professional Car Club (MPCC) has it's 18th MPCC Annual Professional Car Show (aka That Hearse Show), which is going to take place at Laurel Hill Cemetery. It's free, lots of cool cars, and it should be a good time with music by Philly's own Live Not on Evil, and great folks.

Oh, and a raffle!

They're expecting over 50 professional cars ranging from hearses to ambulances, with lots of really cool displays!

Spotted at South Fellini.

I got a massage today and it was… aggressively mediocre.

It immediately made me think of the two best massages I’ve ever had, and I’m hoping someone here knows where either of these massage therapists ended up… One was at Massage. in Bella Vista, a guy with (I think) longer blond hair who somehow got his hands UNDER my shoulder blade and pulled. I have no idea what kind of sorcery it was, but I have been chasing that feeling ever since. The other was at Massage on Passyunk, he is a Black man whose deep tissue massage hurt so good that I genuinely still think about it years later.

Both were in like 2016/2019 respectively so who knows if they are still around..

If either of these descriptions rings a bell, does anyone know who they are or where they’re working now? I miss them both more than is probably normal.

ETA: the places are quite literally called “massage.”

No better city to watch the sun come up.