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Susan @susanshepard.com · 09/08/2026

Real failure of the robust Philly bootleg T scene that, despite dozens of us suggesting it, there's still no Jesus Luzardo version of this

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 20/07/2026

Open for business in South Philly (and business is teeny tiny bees)

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 05/07/2026

And the ads were good. I've owned three contour chairs over the course of my life, as it happens

an ad for the barbizon plaza hotel with a bunch of cute colorful trees representing the reasons you'd come to new york

an ad for the amazing contour chair with all the available models (that's four)

an extremely 1976 looking ad with the headline What is the Liberty Bell and drawings of little kids dressed in Revolutionary War era gear

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 04/07/2026

They had Toni Morrison

A story by Toni Morrison under the heading The Black Experience with a photo of her with her sons

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 04/07/2026

Now a story about the plummeting birth rate and the rise in working mothers

A story headlined "The Case of the Vanishing Mommy" including a graphic showing the rise in working mothers and a photo of a child at the breakfast table with a mother standing behind him but she's faded out

A graphic using bigger and smaller baby dolls to illustrate the drop in the birth rate

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 04/07/2026

courtesy of @cohenesque.bsky.social's mom's collection I bring you some pages from the New York Times Magazine of July 4, 1976. First we have some birthday wishes from Canada and West Germany

Cover of the NYT Magazine from 7/4/76: "The Good life (Along the San Andreas Fault)"

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 16/06/2026

A friend found the list and I'd like to know who the other two people besides them, me and @cohenesque.bsky.social were

A list of the write-in votes for Pennsylvania governor that shows five votes for Dan McQuade

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 07/06/2026

South Philly Autonomous Cinema has two hot screenings coming up! Revelations of Divine Love with a director chat at the Ethical Society on 6/14, then 6/22 is Fantasies & Nightmares, T4T Shorts Night at Nikki Lopez w funds going to Hearts on a Wire & Trans Resilience Fund. tix at cinemaphilly.com

a flyer for T4T shorts night with images of monsters, aliens and tentacles

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 07/04/2026

I didn't see it coming

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 04/04/2026

a short story about Philadelphia accountability from my block

A handwritten note taped to a garage gate that reads "Which ever one of you pretentious pieces of garbage called the
PPA & had my car towed while I was 2 inches over The RED POLE, I am going to make it my mission to ruin the rest of your time in Philadelphia.
(Leave a note next time Jerk!)

A handwritten note from the next day, same place, that reads "I am
truly sorry for my unsolicited accusation. It appears I am a victim of George Smith predatory towing.
Please forgive me. I hope you understand...for my yelling."

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 17/03/2026

this is how I learned the name of the man I would marry, after seeing him backstage interviewing Stephen Malkmus

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 05/03/2026

did not realize this was now a $500 book on my shelf ... will that stop me rereading it? no

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 16/02/2026

Can't stop laughing about Action News going to South Philly's beloved Taco Heart and putting this on the footage

A screenshot of hands wrapping a breakfast taco with text reading "Tex-Mex breakfast sandwich"

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 26/01/2026

So a week ago when I was in Austin visiting, I got to pull my year out of the bag of slips and this is what I came out with

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 17/01/2026

Pollinators were enjoying the one at my mom's this week

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 29/12/2025

you all are nasty for this

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 27/12/2025

insane phrase to use in food writing...shameful to do Popeye's like that www.inquirer.com/food/best-th...

a screenshot from the Inquirer that reads "The chicken patty? Juicy and impossibly plump. The fries? Psoriasis-scabbed and fresh out of the fryer. The biscuit? A butter-kissed dream."

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 08/11/2025

One of my neighborhood's fancy bakeries named a donut for Mamdani this weekend

A picture of a hand holding a glazed filled donut with text that says "MR. CARDAMOM W/HONEY GLAZE"

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 25/10/2025

guess who I'm about to see!!!! In their hometown!!!

A picture of the entrance to the Black Cat, with some people waiting to get in and the sign above the door

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 13/08/2025

Is it commonly known that Andrew Dice Clay was sampled in "Unbelievable," because I had no idea.

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 24/07/2025

Gawker was a good website

screenshot of the tags for the linked story. They read "Read More:
DEATHS,
GUYS WHOSE DEATHS I AM CERTAINLY NOT
CELEBRATING
HULK HOGAN, OBITS, TERRY BOLLEA"

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 10/07/2025

Philly, we're showing a Texas dirtbag classic to raise funds for flood relief and be together in our grief. I know several families who will never be the same, and I'm not alone in this city. Come out Sunday night to be together, and please share. cinemaphilly.com/screening/th...

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 07/07/2025

I met him because back in the teens he had a Twitter avatar that cracked me up and I messaged to ask if I could make a shirt with it. Wore it to a party a couple weeks ago and it still kills

I'm wearing a tank top with a graphic of Charlie Brown's body with the Einsturzende Neubauten head and arms

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 27/06/2025

You can call them unlikely bedfellows, but this has been an alliance for fifty years

screenshot from linked article that reads "The rise of "extreme" sex challenges has drawn the wrath of a few unlikely philosophical bedfellows: the right-wing, manosphere-adjacent cohort who believe women's sexual liberation has gone too far, and feminists who believe their stunts are setting the movement back or that the performers are victims of patriarchy."

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 15/06/2025

When you get the berries and the tart cherries at the same time 👍🏻

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 12/06/2025

absolutely hostile response from the new World Cafe Live ownership to worker walkout

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 28/04/2025

another great time seeing @ekkoastral.bsky.social in Philadelphia, complete with many sincere compliments for the strength of this city's character

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 12/04/2025

when I clicked on this newspaper's daily newsletter link and got taken to a spotify page for the Eurythmics song and not the weather forecast I was severely unamused

a screenshot with the image text reading "Welcome to Saturday.

Here comes the rain again [hyperlink]. Chances are slimmer today, but it’s still cloudy and chilly out."

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 01/04/2025

I was at a friends place and their downstairs neighbor just got a cat and the cat learned how to come up the fire escape between the two apartments

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 23/03/2025

www.inquirer.com/business/phi...

Philly Inquirer headline reads "Rats don't run this city. Why Philly fields fewer rat complaints than New York City and D.C."

Headline from the Philly Inquirer reads "Philly area has highest percentage of cat owners in U.S."

WHYY headline reads "Why Philadelphia can't agree on how to deal with its 400,000 stray cats"

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 05/01/2025

Hey! My dear pal Jennifer is putting together a Mekons zine. Will I contribute a story about the night I took them to the Yellow Rose? Probably! if you want to contribute, hit her up.

A graphic with photos of the Mekons with text that reads "Mekons the fanzine. Call for contributions open now through March 1, 2025. Submit at geekweeklyfanzine@gmail.com"

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 23/12/2024

merry Christmas from the latex chemicals water leak class action! whyy.org/articles/cla...

A Venmo notification letting me know that "Philly Water Settlement Administrator paid you $50.00"

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 27/11/2024

I made sweet potato and apple with cheddar crust pies too. They aren't beautiful but to me they are perfect

A sweet potato pie and an apple pie are cooling on wire racks

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 27/11/2024

at stage 2 of making the chocolate caramel tart / giant Twix. Yes that's the extra caramel so I can make a tiny amount of candy

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 21/11/2024

Welcome to my new followers from Stella's list...I'm a middle aged lady in Philadelphia and here's pictures of me after last month's Pavement deep cuts show and at my friend's 40th birthday karaoke party

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 21/11/2024

You all ready to see the most fucked up cat name ever

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 15/11/2024

@davidjroth.bsky.social saw an IRL remember a guy tonight when a girl brought this out at the local fixer fair

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Susan @susanshepard.com · 30/08/2024

took a good cat picture tonight

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