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Philadelphia, elections, baseball, databases. Dadge oak arborist. Movies from three years ago, and 103 years ago. https://letterboxd.com/rgodfrey/ Signal: rgo.99

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · Nov 14

Philly people: lots of words will get your post into the feed linked below, such as “Schuylkill” or “cheesesteak” or “Phanatic.” If your post is Philly-specific but doesn’t have obvious Philly keywords (“Someone just mooned the Portal”), stick a single 🔔 somewhere in the post & it goes in the feed.

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 8h

This Pat Murphy fellow: Irish?

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 8h

Let's go Brew Crew 🍺

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 9h

Oh for sure.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 10h

Of course she had a cat named Buster.

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 10h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 10h

This movie is awesome.

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · Apr 23

Is it weird that Senator Dick Durbin, retired pitcher Chad Durbin and rookie infielder Caleb Durbin are all from Illinois and are apparently not related to each other? These are the kinds of things that occur to me to think with my brain.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · Apr 23

JUST IN: Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin will not seek a sixth term next year.

Longtime U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin decides 'it's time,' won’t seek reelection

The 80-year-old Democrat told WBEZ in an Illinois exclusive that age was a factor in his not seeking a sixth term in Congress.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 11h

I don't think it would be hard at all to convince the president that Tron was real.

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 13h

Encyclopedias are now battlefields

Opening text card from BALL OF FIRE (1942)

ONCE UPON A TIME - IN 1941 TO BE EXACT - THERE LIVED IN A GREAT, TALL FOREST - CALLED NEW YORK - EIGHT MEN WHO WERE WRITING AN ENCYCLOPEDIA.

THEY WERE SO WISE THEY KNEW EVERYTHING: THE DEPTH OF THE OCEANS, AND WHAT MAKES A GLOW WORM GLOW, AND WHAT TUNE NERO FIDDLED WHILE ROME WAS BURNING. BUT THERE WAS ONE THING ABOUT WHICH THEY KNEW VERY LITTLE - AS YOU SHALL SEE...

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 14h

Oh shit

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 15h

RIP Diane Keaton- such sad news, what an incredible talent. You probably didn't know she collected clown paintings by amateur artists, eventually publishing an entire book devoted to them

Diane Keaton surrounded by clown paintings

Book cover, Clown Paintings by Diane Keaton

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 15h

Those too! I don’t care if she isn’t in them.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 15h

Keaton is the reason so many of the Allen movies work as well as they do. She’s the beating heart, the animating force of his entire oeuvre.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16h

I don't argue with anyone who won't watch a Woody Allen movie; it's a personal choice, different for everyone. But Diane Keaton is a big reason I almost never say "[Movie X] is dead to me." My argument isn't "Separate the artist from the art"; it's that movies are never just one person's legacy.

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 16h

Oh no. RIP to a legend.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 19h

We’re at a diner in the Poconos we’ve been to at least a dozen times, and it’s taken until now to notice the goofy, somewhat erotic Latin where the raw/undercooked egg disclaimer usually goes.