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I hate being away from my kids but I do appreciate that the way we communicate when I’m away is like this.

a great convening!

i’ve been told they found lead in the water fountain at my elementary school so now people bring water bottles, isn’t it so great they found it.

(i drank out of that water fountain quite a bit hmm.)

we’ve just driven past my elementary school which NOW HAS air conditioning.

back in my day, we put wet brown paper towels on our foreheads and kept the lights off.

it’s very possible.

it’s apparently part of their mix tape. the rest of the tape is peter gabriel.

in the car with my parents listening to puff the magic dragon

some zines I plan to take back with me.

Really love the way material from the @inquirer.com is incorporated into the no arena exhibit I’m visiting.

luddite

library conference swag

At Spice C (Chinatown, Philadelphia)

back in philly after an invigorating evening watching multiple tv local news broadcasts with my parents.

currently receiving a running commentary in who lives in every house in my parents neighborhood and what year they graduated from my high school.

Parents are diligently working their way through word puzzles in both the Inquirer and Daily News, which may or may not have the exact same word puzzles.

we’ve found aunt michelle. we are now filming the tv screen with our phone to send to aunt michelle.

it wasn’t in the 4 o’clock hour. we’re moving onto 5.

“neil, get in here. gritty’s on.”

fun news: my aunt michelle might be on the news because they filmed a segment at her acme. so my parents have taped the news and are now watching it frame by frame like the zapruder film.

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a white shirt in an office . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a white shirt in an office .

my childhood bedroom is now being used to store 5 different yahtzee games and a very large bag of pogs.

just heard my mom complain about the wooder

I don’t even know if I would call them towels at this point.

my parents have made a number of improvements to the home they’ve lived in since 1992 but they still have the same bath towels from ~1990.

a silver train is pulling into a train station with a sign above it that says ' kinemv ' on it ALT: a silver train is pulling into a train station with a sign above it that says ' kinemv ' on it

I’m in South Jersey!

here’s me getting off an airplane onto the ground in phiadelphia which was unusual so i took a picture

video store

a relic on my old block.

the shop with all of the weird toys in the window is no more. king of shave remains.

center city

have transported myself back 20 years

a cartoon of squidward from spongebob squarepants with the caption ahh my people ALT: a cartoon of squidward from spongebob squarepants with the caption ahh my people

the conference is taking a library/bookstore crawl today.

(My conference is also in Chinatown.)

I’m en route to Heung Fa Chun Sweet House, where I ate fresh dofu every day when I worked across the street.