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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 · 33m

SARS-CoV-2 zoonotic spillover researcher:

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 6h

T f is going on with these bats

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 7h

Baseball is probably the worst sport there is.

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 8h

As long as Justin Crawford wins the next one.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 8h

+0.82 for LAD pitchers, which is crazy

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 11h

I think it’s just the color pattern. BYOD

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 11h

Here's the Amazon link. You can probably buy it elsewhere too.

Amazon.com: JINSTABAG Inflatable Costume Adult Frog Full Body Deluxe Funny Air Blow Up Costume for Men Women Halloween : Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry

www.amazon.com

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 11h

If it's the one 600+ people have bought in the last month, it's now $55

Inflatable Costume Adult Frog Full Body Deluxe Funny Air Blow Up Costume for Men Women Halloween

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 12h

Nope. (And those aren't really even on my radar either, tbh.)

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 12h

Just to look at Rossellini, S&S critics' poll from 1992 to 2022:

PAISAN, 23 ––> 203
JOURNEY TO ITALY, 32 ––> 72
GERMANY, YEAR ZERO, 46 ––> 424
ROME, OPEN CITY, 179 —> 283

Obviously there are 30 years more movies in the mix, plus fresh access to older stuff, but I think he did get his due, once.

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 13h

Okay! I'll drop a list at some point this weekend.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 13h

Maybe not! But I don't hear people talking about BICYCLE THIEVES or THE SEVENTH SEAL or 8½ the way they did when I first started getting serious about movies in the ’90s. And that could well just be that we have access to much more than that now.

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 13h

The postwar Continental directors that American filmmakers and critics of the ’60s and ’70s revered have mostly but not entirely been knocked off their pedestals—Bergman, Fellini, De Sica, Dreyer, Visconti, Bresson, Rossellini, Ophüls

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14h

throwing this prompt from Twitter in here. what examples you got?

tweet by @Caol_MacCormaic that reads, uncs of film twitter: what are some movies that are canonical now but were basically unknown when we were coming up? like Come and See or Possession. inversely: what are some movies or filmmakers that seem to have fallen off? (Takashi Miike comes to mind)

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 13h

which is funny because Wes’s actual recent movies are substantially more difficult than PTAs

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 13h

I’m sure that’s it, yeah. His style is TikTok-friendly and remixable in a way PTA’s isn’t.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 14h

I think more people now know who Wes Anderson is than who Paul Thomas Anderson is, and I wouldn’t have predicted that 25 years ago, or 15 years ago, or five years ago.

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 14h

I live in less of a culture-vulture bubble than you might imagine, but I've still been a little taken aback to encounter people recently who a) don't know who directed the new Leo movie or it it's out yet and b) don't even know who Paul Thomas Anderson is

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 14h

Where is the money for that coming from and does the executive branch have the authority to use it this way?

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Christine Nangle @nanglish.bsky.social · 14h

prayers for anyone who tries to remind Philly sports phans that today is World Mental Health Day.

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 14h

You're in.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 15h

sigh

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 15h

A Delco tattoo artist with a cobweb tat on his head won the Scrapple Sculpting contest at Reading Terminal Market in Philly with his sculpture of the Eagles Tush Push. The contest was judged by Art Museum ceo Sasha Suda.

Philly remains undefeated, even if we were defeated on the field last night.

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 15h

Yeah I haven't rewatched it. It's a force at the plate so I assume if he can get it to where JT is standing it's an out. Obviously, easy (and probably easier) out at first.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 15h

Two days later, and the worst managing decision was bringing in Kerkering with two on and two outs in the eleventh, and even that would have worked out if Orion had made a better throw to home.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 3d

That's not where the game was lost. I think the worst managing decision was bringing in Kerkering with two on and no outs in the seventh, and even that would have worked out if Trea had made a better throw to home.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 15h

Amazing, hilarious post. With 16,000 followers, I expect you'll get some pity likes for it eventually.

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 15h

Respect to Portland Frog, who has been putting in the work since June

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 21h

Portland Frog gets it

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 16h

Apparently the umpire apologized to Sánchez after the game for missing that strike in the 7th. Thanks?

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