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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you plant ice, you’re gonna harvest wind.

Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Taking the opportunity to promote this book. It’s a terrific read about the players, the game, the times, and of course the city.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The fountain, he said, was near Walt Disney World. He put up a billboard seeking backers for a project to bottle and distribute water from the fountain. I don’t think he found many investors.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

At my first newspaper job, in Northeast Philadelphia, I interviewed a very nice man who said he knew where the fabled Fountain of Youth was. Because he had lived next door to Juan Ponce de Leon. In Northeast Philly. In the 1980s. The story landed him, and me, in a supermarket tabloid.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Scenes from Sunday night’s house party with Scott McCaughey @theeminus5.bsky.social at Chris and Deb’s awesome home in South Jersey. Top-five concert. Top-five human. Thanks, Scott, and may your Christmas wish come true. w/ @annapplegate.bsky.social @ginae.bsky.social

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 artists you’ve seen live B-52’s Beach Boys Billy Bragg Bruce Springsteen Monkees Paul McCartney Ramones Richard Thompson Robyn Hitchcock Wilco

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wilco bot @wilcobot.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Sometimes I can’t believe how dark it can be

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I’m partial to “Utopia Parkway” … a pure power-pop gem. But they never released a dud.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Harmony Vegetarian Chinese, in Philadelphia’s Chinatown. I found it not long after I’d given up meat, and Harmony had the best vegetarian ham fried rice in the world. I still miss the wonton soup and the perfectly prepared eggplant in black bean sauce.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Representing “The Tweedy Show” at the Tweedy show at @uniontransfer.bsky.social in Philly. w/ @annapplegate.bsky.social

With my wife at Union Transfer waiting for Jeff Tweedy.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Brought in this beauty from the garden today. It’s a Soldaki — a prized heirloom of Polish origin. Kind of like me. @annapplegate.bsky.social #tomatoes #soldaki #schwapplegatefarms

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: Gladys Knight and I Could Have Sworn There Was A Pip Around Here Somewhere

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

IIRC, the head of programming for ABC at the time explained its cancellation by saying it made viewers work too hard, what with so many jokes and all. Now I’m heading to one of those all-night wicker places.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

@merriam-webster.com ran a list of words added to the official Scrabble dictionary in 2018, along with an example of usage. This was in the entry for “frowny”: I had become the Norma Rae of frowny faces. — Addam Schwartz, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 May 2018

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Things got Weird in Philly last night. Amazing show by @alyankovic.bsky.social at the Mann.

A shot from the show’s opening montage reading “‘Weird Al’ Yankovic” in horror-movie type

Al dares to be stupid. Not being critical: It’s his Devo tribute.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Forty years ago. It was scorchingly hot, super crowded, and absolutely perfect. Tickets had gone on sale less than three weeks earlier, and I wrote about scoring mine for the weekly paper I worked for. (I also wrote about the show, but I can’t find the clip.) #liveaid #northeasttimes

Live Aid tchochkes: program, T-shirt, and ticket stub.

An article I wrote for the Northeast Times about buying Live Aid tickets.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Ringo at the Mann was everything I’d expected, and more. Watching an almost 85-year-old Beatle doing jumping jacks onstage was incredible in itself. But his band this time around was just amazing. Special props to co-drummer Greg Bissonette. And Hamish Stuart, who was anything but average.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

At the Mann for Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band, with special guest … Larry Kane!

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I saw Pat DiNizio (RIP) of the Smithereens after a Who tribute concert at Carnegie Hall. He was so chill and so damn normal. He spoiled me for other alt-rock heroes.

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wilco bot @wilcobot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Every song's a comeback; every moment's a little bit later

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Harmony, a vegetarian Chinese restaurant in Philly, had a vegetarian ham fried rice that was perfection. And a place called Wiz Kid briefly made a vegan cheesesteak that made me forget I hadn’t had a real cheesesteak in 30 years. So good. Sigh.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Back in the ‘70s, the Phillies’ Del Unser used to be a .400 hitter. You’d see his name in the agate list of NL leaders. In April. Then, tragically, came May, and June, and he would stop being Ted Williams and be Del Unser again. That’s why I’m not too worried about Alec Bohm. Yet. #phillies

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I got the same spiel last month. (Go Birds.)

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wilco bot @wilcobot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

With a sky blue sky, this rotten time, wouldn't seem so bad to me now

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Great piece. Thanks for sharing it. This passage jumped out at me: Schulz … seemed to view cartoonists as analogous to the Peanuts character Schroeder — dogged practitioners who, at their best, managed to play expressive music on toy pianos that lacked pedals and black keys.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“Saquon Barkley, you are the man!” — Harry Kalas in heaven, probably #eagles

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

“To me, Syd Barrett made a Holy Trinity with Bob Dylan and Captain Beefheart.” Love this.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A belated New Year’s vertical tasting of Dr. Konstantin Frank dry Rieslings from 2015, 2020, and 2023 at Schwapplegate Estates. The winner: Us. w/ @annapplegate.bsky.social #dryriesling #drfrank

A selection of Dr. Konstantin Frank dry Rieslings from 2015, 2020, and 2023. All delicious.

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year...in jail!

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wilco bot @wilcobot.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It’s so much worse than we feared

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

“The Kallikaks” was probably the worst thing ever telecast, and I’m including the bottom of the ninth inning in Game Six of the 1993 World Series. Also “My Mother The Car.”

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The upside to our looming global environmental catastrophe: I’m still bringing in tomatoes like this one from my Northwest Philadelphia garden in mid-November. #alwayslookonthebrightsideoflife

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’d love to hear “She Doesn’t Exist” or “Queen Elvis” from Robyn and anything from “Blonde On The Tracks” by Emma.

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Addam Schwartz @addamschwartz.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I’m told it’s #SkySunday around here, so here’s a shot from (s)Lower Delaware.

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