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Cody @cody.city · 08/10/2026

The Amazon "About You" page is going to out me as normcore. "Bulk purchasing men's khaki pants" is a low blow.

Screenshot of a mobile screen showing search categories, including "Home & Family: Has a dog," "Brands: Likes Dockers for men's clothing," and "Product Preferences: Bulk purchasing men's khaki pants."

Cody @cody.city · 02/10/2026

Temporary wayfinding. This is the trunk of a street tree that was removed after the last big storm. Eventually city crews will grind out the stump and plant a new tree. #SeenOnTheDogwalk

Tree stump with cardinal direction markings in white paint.

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Cody @cody.city · 02/10/2026

The tress train is just pulling into the

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Cody @cody.city · 23/09/2026

Stopped for a few minutes to enjoy the spectacle of a state visit by Xi Jinping. There are a lot of organized spectators with Chinese and US flags on Pennsylvania Ave between the hotel and the White House.

A woman holding small US and Chinese flags. A man in a baseball hat is taking her photo. There are spectators behind a red banners with Chinese Mandarin characters.

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Cody @cody.city · 18/09/2026

Free flip flops from the dog walk

Tropical-patterned flip-flops with palm trees, sailboats, and colorful flowers on a navy background, leaning against the base of a light pole.

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Cody @cody.city · 08/09/2026

When they say the walls have ears

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Cody @cody.city · 05/09/2026

Gentrification empties

A large bottle of Leffe Blonde Belgian ale sealed with a cork, standing upright on a brick sidewalk next to a curb and garden fence.

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Cody @cody.city · 29/08/2026

Don't pack pork

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Cody @cody.city · 26/08/2026

[Crawling insect] Need the lanternfly laser attachment for the security camera. #CapitolHillBackyards

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Cody @cody.city · 23/08/2026

The defining feature of seeing a band at the Quarry House Tavern is that they set up right in front of the restrooms. Check out Soft Palms.

A musician with dark hair sings into a microphone while playing an electric guitar on a dimly lit stage under colorful string lights. In the background, there is a restroom sign on a door.

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Cody @cody.city · 17/08/2026

Foo Fighters. Brought to you by AARP.

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Cody @cody.city · 01/08/2026

Greet the elite at

Red and white sign that reads

European Meat Boutique
Prime Ribeye Steak
Prime NY Strip Steak
Prime Skirt Steak

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Cody @cody.city · 01/08/2026

Ted Leo. Still got it, never lost it.

A singer performs passionately at an outdoor park concert, framed by an audience member's raised hand pointing up in the foreground and a drummer in the background.

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Cody @cody.city · 01/08/2026

Rode the train up to NYC with my kid to see Ted Leo play a free show at Tompkins Square Park, but first Shellshag.

A man pointing toward the camera and a woman singing into a microphone perform on an outdoor stage next to a custom speaker stack.

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Cody @cody.city · 26/07/2026

Baby got a zeppelin

Detail of a toddler holding a pointy dirigible from Spirit of Transportation by Carl Bitter at William H Gray Amtrak station in Philadelphia, PA.

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Cody @cody.city · 25/07/2026

Why do they always make the poor DJ stand in the sun?

A DJ with a laptop behind a table with a flower print tablecloth in the bright sun. He is wearing sunglasses and a flowered short.

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Cody @cody.city · 25/07/2026

Headed up to Philly on Amtrak for the second night of MTWB. Perhaps more surprising for a man of my age, I didn't pick the night Pavement was playing.

A high-angle photo of a concrete sidewalk covered in hand-drawn concert advertisements written in black paint. The poster announces "CONCERT WEEKEND at THE DELL" featuring Pavement and Rat Boys on Friday July 24, plus Kurt Vile & The Violators, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, and Twisted Teens on Saturday July 25. The graffiti-style artwork includes band names, logos (WXPN, RS/PROUD), decorative starbursts and doodles.

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Cody @cody.city · 24/07/2026

Just an ideal evening for a concert at Fort Reno in DC. We have been going to these off and on for 30 years.

Two musicians are silhouetted on a stage against a vibrant sunset, playing instruments at an outdoor concert.

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Cody @cody.city · 20/07/2026

Ok. I found the zoning variance. It was approved as a 3 car garage with 1 BR. The second BR must have been added later to replace one garage. That would explain the garage door and some of the HVAC issues.

A two-panel black-and-white comic strip featuring a man wearing a collared shirt and tie.
Panel 1: The man stands with his arms crossed, wearing a skeptical frown and glaring with wide, unblinking eyes.
Panel 2: He throws his hands into the air with dramatic exasperation, wide-eyed and yelling "I GUESS," which appears in a speech bubble above his head.

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Cody @cody.city · 20/07/2026

We stayed in a new construction AirBnB carriage house in the Victorian Village of Columbus, OH last week. What is a bit crazy to me is that design standards must have required this fake, nonfunctional garage door on the exterior. Behind it was a bedroom.

Exterior front view of a two-story garage with olive-tan horizontal siding and white trim. A closed white paneled garage door sits below a black gooseneck light fixture. On the dark gray shingled roof above, a white dormer holds three black-framed square windows. White gutters run along the rooflines down to a concrete apron facing a gravel driveway.

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Cody @cody.city · 18/07/2026

🎶 Run to the hills, run for your lives 🎶

A "Mighty Flame" advertisement shows a cartoon propane tank character next to the text "RUN OUT AND GET ONE," with a man and woman running across a grassy hill in the foreground.

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Cody @cody.city · 18/07/2026

You don't know me, convenience store.

A store window features large blue letters spelling "ALCOHOLIC" superimposed over colorful slushie machine graphics, with a Powerball lottery jackpot sign visible in the background.

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Cody @cody.city · 18/07/2026

Obligatory Central Ohio roadside attraction stop: the Longaberger Basket Building.

This is the former headquarters of the Longaberger Company, an iconic example of novelty architecture located in Newark, Ohio. Designed to look exactly like the company's famous medium market basket, it is often referred to as the "Big Basket" building.

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Cody @cody.city · 12/07/2026

Walked around the campus of The Ohio State University today. Love a big state school campus. We saw a bike rack with a green roof.

A modern, covered bicycle parking shelter situated on a wide concrete sidewalk next to a multi-lane road. The shelter features a striking architectural design with a series of curved, crisscrossing black metal supports that hold up a long, gently arched roof. The roof is a green roof, covered in a layer of living grass and small plants. Several bicycles are parked underneath the structure. In the background, there is a dense line of lush green trees under a partly cloudy sky, along with a classic black lamppost standing next to the sidewalk.

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Cody @cody.city · 11/07/2026

I consider an El Camino sighting to be a good omen when hitting The Road.

A blue Chevrolet El Camino on a highway, seen from behind, with traffic and an overpass in the background.

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Cody @cody.city · 08/07/2026

Started distributing the final product. I am getting some questions about whether it is catnip or some other skunky herb. It's catnip!

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Cody @cody.city · 07/07/2026

For some reason, the kids don't find my dress sock body modifications "cool" or "edgy."

Close-up of a person's hairy leg showing a temporary, textured indentation and redness left on the skin from a tight sock.

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Cody @cody.city · 02/07/2026

I really wanted to like a bike helmet I got on sale from REI, but it made me look like The Great Gazoo. In retrospect, this could have been anticipated.

Neon yellow Cannondale Sidestreet bike helmet. It is bulbous with a prominent front air vent and other vents on the top.

Image of The Great Gazoo from the Flintstones. He is a little green guy in a green jumpsuit and cape with a large bulbous green helmet with antenna.

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Cody @cody.city · 30/06/2026

Oh shit, the D24 Deanwood doesn't stop at Stadium-Armory metro anymore. I was surprised to learn this as the bus sped across the East Capitol St bridge.

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Cody @cody.city · 29/06/2026

I walked through the Great American State Fair in DC and it is as pathetic as everyone is saying. It is extremely bare bones and what is there is just sad. If you have a local county fair, go there instead.

A large grassy expanse of the National Mall with a few people milling around. There are plywood sheds with poorly applied classical elements in the distance at the edge of the grass.

A white, blocky scale model of the arch Trumps wants to build. It ugly.

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Cody @cody.city · 29/06/2026

Calm down everybody. It's just a dry cleaning solvent.

A 3D space-filling molecular model representing tetachloroethylene. The model features 2 central, dark-grey carbon atoms mostly obscured by four large, vibrant green chlorine atoms arranged in a tetrahedral geometry. Image from Wikipedia.

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Cody @cody.city · 10/06/2026

@jaybeas That is an interesting question. Again, if you asked my dog

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Cody @cody.city · 09/06/2026

Get excited, America. Your national state fair will be housed in a series of classically styled plywood mausoleums.

A wide shot of a long, single-story building with a light-purple facade and classical arch detailing, situated behind a manicured green lawn and a thin wire fence. In the foreground is a wide, sandy dirt path, while trees and the top of a larger stone building are visible in the background under an overcast sky.

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Cody @cody.city · 08/06/2026

I did not correct the tourists who were telling each other that the gift shop and bathrooms at the Washington Monument was, in fact, the White House.

An eye-level shot captures the Washington Monument under a cloudy sky, with a small stone structure circled in red near its base. The monument rises tall in the background, surrounded by a ring of American flags. In the midground, a low stone building is highlighted by a thick, hand-drawn red circle. A paved road spans the center of the image, separated from a grassy lawn by a black chain-link fence in the foreground. Two people walk along a path on the left, while another sits on a bench to the right.

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Cody @cody.city · 08/06/2026

The garden shed already smells like a catnip hotbox after hanging up what I cut a moment ago. After this dries we will make gift bags for friends with cats.

A large, dense bundle of freshly harvested catnip hangs upside down to dry inside a wooden garden shed. The leafy, serrated stalks drape downward, partially obscuring garden tools like rakes and shovels in the background, with a bicycle handlebar visible on the right.

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Cody @cody.city · 06/06/2026

Went for a long run this morning. My bright idea was to take only my house key and my bikeshare fob so I could ride back. Went I got to the end of the run, I discovered I had taken a small whistle instead. It did not unlock a bike.

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Cody @cody.city · 04/06/2026

A prior Michigan I VOTED sticker winner was the werewolf.

A hand-drawn circular sticker design featuring a muscular, anthropomorphic werewolf howling with its mouth wide open, aggressively ripping its blue shirt apart. The words "I VOTED" are written at the top, set against an American flag backdrop. Below the sticker illustration, a caption details that the design was created by 12-year-old Jane Hynous and won a contest for Michigan’s next "I Voted" sticker.

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Cody @cody.city · 02/06/2026

A book review in Bezos' newspaper sent me running to my local independent book store. The Maidenheads by Benny B. Peterson is set in the DC indie/punk music scene of the early 2000s. wapo.st/49y3MdD wapo.st/49y3MdD

Book cover for "The Maidenheads: a novel" by Benny B. Peterson. The cover features a textured blue background with a collage design, including pink label-style text blocks for the title and author, green-tinted cutouts of hands holding a microphone and playing a keyboard, and a central vintage-style illustration of two people kissing.

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Cody @cody.city · 02/06/2026

Michigan has outdone itself again with the "I Voted" sticker contest. bridgemi.com/michigan-government/pu…

A crayon drawing of a sleeping white cat with an American flag on its back, enclosed in a circle. A speech bubble above the cat reads, "I voted now let me sleep".

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Cody @cody.city · 28/05/2026

Since my local post office didn't have the new GOOOOOOOOAL!! stamps today, I went online and got the women's soccer stamps from 2023 instead. The new ones should have said "¡GOOOOOOOOOL!" anyway.