#philadelphia fire department

[larryshapiro]

Philadelphia FD Squrt 35

#larryshapiro #Larry Shapiro #Shapirophotography.net #Larryshapiro.tumblr.com #larryshapiroblog.com #FireTruck #Spartan #SpartanMetroStar #Squrt #Philadelphia Fire Department #philadelphia pa #PhiladelphiaFD #LadderTower #SpartanER

[phrworld]

Pep Rally for The Hero Thrill Show-952 by Philadelphia MDO Special Events Via Flickr: Copyright Managing Director's Office of Special Events Photograph by Bill Z. Foster. This Office of Special Events photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and for noncommercial personal use. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in advertisements, emails, products, or promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the Mayor or his Administration. Reproduction of this photograph requires attribution of ownership to the photographer.

#City of Philadelphia #Event & Conferences #Office of Special Events & M.D.O. #Police & Fire Department #Press Conference #Reportage #flickr

[marywoodartdept]

Through the Smoke

As smoke from Canadian fires moved down through parts of the United States, Julie, our Photography blogger, was able to capture the moon at dusk as a giant glowing orange orb. Read "Through the Smoke" #MarywoodArt #Photography

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#Canada fires #fires #fog #haze #June 2023 #low light photography #Marywood Art #Marywood Art Department #Marywood University #moon #PA #Pennsylvania #Philadelphia #Photography #smoke #Where Creativity Works

[bikerlovertexas]

#City of Philadelphia #Events & Conferences #Office of Special Events & M.D.O. #Police /Fire Department

[eastwickcommunity]

For the past three weeks, the Philadelphia taxpayers have paid to keep the Fire Hydrant open and Wasting Water

This fire hydrant has been leaking water continuously for three weeks. Over a week ago, I complained to the water department via DM, but no one was ever dispatched to remedy the issue. Furthermore, today the fire hydrant is still open, squandering water.

#philadelphia #Southwest Philadelphia #Philadelphia Water Department #philadelphia water #philly311 #the city of philadelphia #southwest philly #philly #Fire Hydrant Wasting water for two weeks and all this paid by taxpayers in Philly #fire hydrant leaking water #Fire Hydrants #Philadelphia taxpayers #our planet #water wasting #the environment #Inlet Cleaning Philly311 #philly 311

[mimi-0007]

The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, was the destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during a standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization. Philadelphia police dropped two explosive devices from a helicopter onto the roof of a house occupied by MOVE. The Philadelphia Fire Department allowed the resulting fire to burn out of control, destroying 61 previously evacuated neighboring homes over two city blocks and leaving 250 people homeless. Six adults and five children were killed in the attack, with one adult and one child surviving. A lawsuit in federal court found that the city used excessive force and violated constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

#black history #black tumblr #black literature #black community #black lives matter #black lives have always mattered #united states

[soberscientistlife]

May 13, 1985 :Philadelphia Police Department drop an explosive device from a helicopter onto a residential home occupied by the MOVE Organization following a standoff & firefight. The Philadelphia Fire Department let the subsequent fire burn out of control, destroying 61 homes over two city blocks.

MOVE was a black liberation group that encompassed philosophies of black nationalism, anarcho-primitivism, & animal rights. The group was founded in 1972 by John Africa, a native of West Philly & veteran of the Korean War. Africa began a series of racial teachings that grew a following of people who believed in his ideology. He compiled his thoughts into a book called "The Guidelines", which became the primary source of his teachings & principles.

MOVE advocated a radical form of environmental politics, opposed science, medicine, & technology. They regularly held demonstrations against animal cruelty in front of zoos, puppy mills, & any institutional form of enslavement of animals, using bullhorns to propel their ideals. The members were often jailed for their actions.

In 1985, police obtained arrest warrants charging four MOVE occupants with parole violations, contempt of court, illegal possession of firearms, & the City classified MOVE as a terrorist organization. Police evacuated residents of the area from the neighborhood prior to their action.

On May 13, 1985, nearly 500 police officers arrived in force and attempted to clear the building & execute the arrest warrants.

When the MOVE members did not respond to exit their home, the police decided to forcibly remove the 13 members. Police lobbed tear gas canisters at the building & MOVE members fired at them. A 90 min gunfight ensued. Police used more than 10,000 rnds of ammunition before Commissioner Sambor ordered that the compound be bombed. Two 1lb bombs made of FBI-supplied Tovex, a dynamite substitute, were dropped from a police helicopter, targeting a cubicle on the roof of the house. The ensuing fire killed 11 of the people in the house; John Africa, five other adults, & five children aged 7 to 13.

Source: African Archives

[climatecalling]

The state of Georgia is refusing to release evidence tied to the police shooting and killing of an activist protesting a police and fire department training center known as “Cop City”, prompting concern from police accountability experts who say this sets a “frightening” precedent . District attorney George Christian released a 31-page report earlier this month concluding that the 18 January shooting of Manuel Paez Terán, or “Tortuguita”, was “objectively reasonable”. Paez Terán was one of a small group of “forest defenders” camping in a wooded public park to protest Cop City, planned for a separate part of the forest south-east of Atlanta, Georgia, less than a mile away. Dozens of officers from multiple agencies raided the park; the state claims Paez Terán fired a gun first, prompting six officers to shoot the activist. The activist sustained 57 gunshot wounds and died nearly instantly. The Georgia bureau of investigation (GBI), the agency charged with the investigation, also announced that the evidence would not be released to the Paez Terán family or to the public because the movement itself is the subject of a separate “criminal investigation and prosecution”. That evidence includes “photographs, audio witness interviews, crime scene drawings and reports, forensic lab reports … and body camera (video and audio)”. Jon Feinberg, a Philadelphia civil rights attorney and incoming president of the National Police Accountability Project (NPAP), called the announcement “unique and chilling”.

#cop city #police #police accountability #tortuguita #activism

[anarchywoofwoof]

and the suspensions were basically protocol. not for violating any specific policy. they were acting in accordance with department policy.

Mike Manko, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, confirmed in an email that 16 deputies were placed on administrative leave after the incident. They all fired their weapons, according to NBC affiliate WPXI of Pittsburgh. "We were aware of the actor's disdain for government when we went to serve the eviction notice which is why we had extra deputies on the detail," Manko said in an emailed statement Friday.

i just posted about this the other day in philadelphia.

we are in the middle of a full blown fucking class war.

and the opposition knows who they’re up against.

do you?

[nbc]

#fuck the police #fuck capitalism #fuck landlords #all cops are bastards #acab #news #class warfare #anarchy #anarchism

[scotianostra]

September 27th 1938 saw the 80,000-ton liner Queen Elizabeth, then the largest passenger ship ever built, launched at John Brown's shipyard, Clydebank.

Plans to use Queen Elizabeth as a passenger liner were put on permanent hold at the outbreak of World War II. However the ship was not safe in Scotland, and was a known target for the Luftwaffe.

As such, Queen Elizabeth was painted grey before departing Clydebank for what was expected to be a short journey to Southampton.

Instead, Queen Elizabeth’s maiden voyage was to New York, with the untested and untried liner making a ‘mad dash’ across the Atlantic.

Once in New York, Queen Elizabeth berthed alongside Queen Mary, Normandie and Mauretania, and for a brief period during March 1940 four of the world’s greatest liners,lay side by side.

Queen Elizabeth was requisitioned for wartime service on 13 November 1940 and was released from Admiralty service in 1946. Her post-war overhaul and refurbishment was carried out both on the Clyde and at Southampton. This overhaul saw the luxury passenger interiors installed aboard Queen Elizabeth, in preparation for civilan transatlantic services. The ship was finally painted in Cunard livery while the machinery was overhauled.

Queen Elizabeth was given her full sea trials, and then officially accepted by Cunard. The ship made her belated maiden passenger voyage to New York on 16 October 1946.

In the 60's as air travel became the norm for transatlantic travel Cunard gave Queen Elizabeth a major overhaul in Greenock, which involved an interior refurbishment and the creation of an outdoor swimming pool on Queen Elizabeth’s aft deck, as well as the building of a lido area.

Cunard announced on 8 May 1967 Queen Elizabeth would be withdrawn in Autumn 1968. Despite every effort to keep the Queen Elizabeth sailing, she was too costly for her owners and had to go. The liner was sold to a group of Philadelphia businessmen with the intention of turning her into a floating hotel in Florida. The ship made her final transatlantic crossing on 5 November 1968 before she was withdrawn from Cunard service.

Once in Florida, the ship was opened to the public in February 1969, however this venture didn’t last and the ship was closed that same year. In late 1970 the ship was auctioned and bought by C.Y.Tung, Hong Kong. The intention was to turn the ship into a floating university and she sailed for Hong Kong for conversion.

Re-named Seawise University, the ship’s transformation was almost complete when a series of fires broke out aboard the ship causing her to burn out and sink in the harbour. The ship is now under "reclaimed land" there.

#Scotland #scottish #Glasgow #River Clyde #Shipbuilding #Ocean liner

[burningtacozombie]

‘Cold Case’ Reboot From Creator Meredith Stiehm Eyed By CBS

EXCLUSIVE: After bringing back CSI: Crime Scene Investigation with CSI: Vegas, CBS is looking to revive another Jerry Bruckheimer Television-produced crime procedural from the 2000s. The network is in negotiations with Warner Bros. TV for a reboot of Cold Case, which aired on CBS for seven seasons from 2003-2010, Deadline has learned. The followup comes from the series’ creator/executive producer Meredith Stiehm.

Set 15 years after the original series’ final episode, the untitled Cold Case reboot would follow a new team of tenacious detectives who investigate cold cases across the Southwest.

This is a new location as the original Cold Case was set in Philadelphia. The move would allow the potential new series to introduce a new group of characters as they tackle unsolved homicides.

Stiehm is writing the script. She is executive producing with JBTV’s Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed for WBTV and CBS Studios. Talks between CBS and WBTV have been going on for weeks, and sources stress that the two sides are not close to a deal. Reps for the network and the studios declined comment.

The original series follows Detective Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris), a homicide detective with the Philadelphia Police Department specializing in cold cases, who was partnered for the majority of the show’s run with Detective Scotty Valens (Danny Pino).

No talent is currently attached to the reboot though I hear Pino has had informal conversations to reprise his fan favorite character Det. Scotty Valens, possibly in a significant way. I hear Morris has not been approached about the reboot but is aware of it and could potentially appear in some (likely limited) capacity to provide additional continuity, having led the original series for seven seasons.

Cold Case‘s main cast also included John Finn, Jeremy Ratchford, Thom Barry and Tracie Thoms.

Before proceeding with talent discussions, WBTV has to close a deal with CBS, which I hear had been a challenge. According to sources, the sticking points include some of the issues that the two sides faced during the renewal negotiations for WBTV’s then-freshman East New York last spring that reportedly contained a request from the network for additional streaming rights.

After months of back-and-forth, those talks fell through. The Cold Case reboot would mark the studio’s first drama sale to CBS since then as the two sides are trying to hammer out a new deal template. (The studio and network have an ongoing relationship on the comedy side through Chuck Lorre’s Big Bang Theory franchise which recently got another offshoot series, Georgie & Mandy, for next season.)

There is no particular rush as CBS’ 2024-25 slate is already stacked with three new drama series, Matlock, pushed due to strike-related delays, NCIS: Origins and Watson.

Since the end of Cold Case after 156 episodes, Stiehm worked as an executive producer on Showtime’s Emmy-winning drama Homeland and also co-developed and executive produced FX’s The Bridge, based on the Danish-Swedish format. She is repped by UTA and attorney Bruce Gellman.

In addition to CSI: Vegas, currently in its third season, JBTV has sophomore CBS drama series Fire Country, which has been renewed for a third season and is eying a potential Sheriff-centered spinoff. The company is repped by CAA.

via Deadline

#danny pino #scotty valens #kathryn morris #lilly rush #tracie thoms #kat miller #cold case #WHEN I SAY I SCREAMED #about to lose my fucking mind #holy shit I can't believe this might be happening

[phrworld]

Pep Rally for The Hero Thrill Show-433 by Philadelphia MDO Special Events Via Flickr: Copyright Managing Director's Office of Special Events Photograph by Bill Z. Foster. This Office of Special Events photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and for noncommercial personal use. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in advertisements, emails, products, or promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the Mayor or his Administration. Reproduction of this photograph requires attribution of ownership to the photographer.

#City of Philadelphia #Event & Conferences #Office of Special Events & M.D.O. #Police & Fire Department #Press Conference #Reportage #flickr

[handeaux]

Here Are 17 Uncommon Curiosities Reportedly Found In The Ohio River

The Queen City, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously wrote, sits “in her garlands dressed, on the banks of the Beautiful River.” Once claimed by the French and named by them exactly that: La Belle Riviere, the Ohio has been the soul and foundation of our city ever since the first houses went up, but our Beautiful River has also proved to be a weird and moody companion, coughing up a bizarre miscellany from time to time.

Alligators In 1879, Dr. A. Jackson Howe procured a live, three-foot long alligator for display at the museum of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. The reptile had been captured on the Covington shore, while several others were spotted frolicking in the Ohio River among some empty coal barges. Three years later, John Thornton found an alligator sleeping beneath the floorboards of his Newport icehouse. Charles Pitts of Covington lassoed a three-and-a-half-foot alligator from the Ohio River at the foot of Covington’s Main Street in 1870.

Bodies, Lots Of Bodies Almost from the time Cincinnati was first settled bodies have been recovered from the Ohio River including suicides, victims of foul play and accidental drownings. Among the earliest casualties was Francis Kennedy, who operated the first ferry between Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky and who drowned while hauling beef cattle to Fort Washington. Over the years, the old newspapers printed hundreds of inquest reports, often directed toward ascertaining the identities of bodies found overnight.

Catfish Of Unusual Size The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune of 3 February 1849 reports that Frederick Diserens, proprietor of the William Tell restaurant, and Colonel Josiah J. Stratton of the Fire Department, had shipped a “mammoth cat fish” to the Exchange Hotel in Philadelphia. The leviathan, caught in the Ohio River at Cincinnati, measured five feet, ten inches in length and tipped the scales at 158 pounds. Prior to its shipment east, the beast hung outside Diserens’ establishment on the south side of what is now Government Square. In 2009, two fishermen landed a blue catfish measuring four feet, six inches long and weighing 96 pounds within view of downtown Cincinnati.

Chemical “Slug” The Ohio River, lined with heavily fertilized farmland and a multitude of manufacturing plants, is regularly listed as among the most polluted streams in America. Residents of a certain age will recall the great carbon tetrachloride “slug” of 1977. When a tank full of toxic “carbon tet” ruptured at the FMC Corporation facility in February of that year, it released 5000 to 6000 pounds into the Ohio River as a 50- to 60-mile “slug” of highly polluted liquid. Water purification systems up and down the river shut off intake valves until the “slug” passed.

Elephant Bathing All of Cincinnati – and Covington, too – turned out on the morning of 9 August 1860 to watch an elephant swim across the Ohio River. The elephant was Lalla Rookh, star of the Dan Rice Circus. Lalla Rookh had been, for the past decade, a highlight of Dan Rice's big-top extravaganzas. Billed as the “Pachyderm Princess,” she was famous for her tightrope act and she also danced, rang bells and fired a pistol. She was a huge draw and, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, brought out a good crowd for her river bath, estimated between 15,000 and 20,000

Ghosts No one ever solved the 1890 murder of Billy Fee, who was knifed and shot on the banks of the Ohio River near Lawrenceburg. Almost a year later a young man traveling by boat up the river past the murder scene cried out that he could see shadows on the darkened waters vividly recreating the murder scene. For years, residents of Lawrenceburg venturing near the river at night reported visions of the dreadful crime, accompanied by the sounds of shrieks and gunshots.

Giant Snakes On 11 August 1849, a Clermont County “man of respectability” named John Wait swore to an affidavit in which he claimed to have seen a snake more than 30 feet in length on the banks of Hartman’s mill pond. A posse was assembled and searched all over for the beast with no results, even after draining the mill pond. Sightings, however, continued for the next decade. In 1858, the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune reported that the dam at Hartman’s mill had been badly damaged by a flood and the snake was assumed to have escaped toward the Ohio River. According to a 1940 article in the Cincinnati Post, the Cincinnati Zoo offered to help citizens near Gallipolis locate a snake estimated at 35 feet in length. Coincidence?

Green Clawed Beast It was a sultry afternoon on 14 August 1955 when Naomi Johnson and some friends headed to the Ohio River at Evansville for a refreshing dip. While swimming just 15 feet offshore, something swam up behind Mrs. Johnson and grabbed her leg. She felt claws scratch her leg as the thing pulled her under the water. She began kicking her assailant and was pulled under a second time before her friends lifted her out of the river. Her left leg was extensively lacerated and bruised, with one mark distinctly hand-shaped. Mrs. Johnson claimed to have seen a UFO just before she was attacked, and there were several UFO sightings in the Evansville area around the time of the incident, leading her to believe an extraterrestrial origin for her attacker.

Kentucky Border For most of our region’s history, the entire Ohio River belonged exclusively to Kentucky. That all changed on 21 January 1980, when the United States Supreme Court fixed the border between Ohio and Kentucky at the low-water mark of the river in 1792. With two centuries of dam construction and other navigational improvements, the Ohio River is significantly deeper and wider than it was in the 1790s. The border is now, in some cases, hundreds of feet off the Ohio shore.

Madonna’s Yacht Rusting away in an Ohio River tributary just 25 miles downriver from Cincinnati is a 186-foot yacht originally known as the Celt but probably most famous as the USS Sachem among a variety of names acquired over its 120-year history. Thomas Edison used it for anti-submarine research. It ran out of New York as a recreational fishing vessel and served as a coastal patrol ship during World War II. After the war it hauled tourists around Manhattan. Robert Miller of Finneytown bought the yacht for $7500 in the 1980s and rented it out to Madonna, who filmed part of her “Papa Don’t Preach” video onboard. Miller hauled it upriver to its current resting place shortly after sailing a boatload of friends around the rededication of the Statue of Liberty in 1986.

Man Afloat On 11 March 1879, a crowd of fifteen thousand swarmed the riverfront to catch a glimpse of the “Fearless Frogman,” Captain Paul Boynton, as he arrived in Cincinnati while floating from Pittsburgh to Cairo in a buoyant rubber suit. Outfitted with sails and oars, Boynton’s “peculiar life-saving dress” allowed him to maintain speeds of five or six miles per hour on his downriver odyssey. That night, he attended a performance at the Grand Opera House on Vine Street and, being recognized, was called to the stage and compelled to give a speech.

Mud Mermaids The Cincinnati Enquirer of 6 September 1894 reported two “nondescript creatures, horrible in appearance and strange in habits” at a sand bar in the Ohio River near Vevay, Indiana. The creatures appeared to be carnivorous, dining on fish and mussels plucked from the river. They were described as being yellowish in color, about five feet long, with webbed and clawed hands and feet. Their hairless heads had sharply pointed ears standing straight up. In the years since, the Vevay beings have been dubbed “Mud Mermaids.”

Octoman Police dispatchers along both sides of the Ohio River were swamped with frantic calls from late January to early February 1959 as dozens of residents and travelers reported strange creatures emerging from the depths. Sightings were recorded from New Richmond to the Licking River bridge. One witness compared the critter to an octopus while others said it looked like an immense human, leading to the nickname Octoman. Panic spread, with one 11-year-old boy calling the Cincinnati Post to confirm his teacher’s story that green men were clambering out of the river in platoons of twelve. To add to the mystery, all the streetlights along Kellogg Avenue from Lunken Airport to Coney Island extinguished as the first reports came in. After a week, sightings abated and Octoman seemingly disappeared.

Petroglyphs Just as the Ohio River slips across the state line from Pennsylvania, at the junction with Little Beaver Creek at East Liverpool, it covers a vast array of submerged designs carved into the rock. First recognized by French explorers in 1755, the display has been largely immersed in a much deeper river, only occasionally emerging into visibility in times of extreme drought. Hundreds of these Native American carvings were found for about 10 miles along the Ohio River from Midland, Pennsylvania through Wellsville, Ohio. The origin or date of the petroglyphs remains unknown and will likely never be determined.

Sea Lion In May 1962 several people reported a strange beast frolicking in the Ohio River near the Fernbank locks. The animal was not large; maybe three feet in length, but it was unlike anything naturally associated with the wildlife of the area. An expedition organized by the Cincinnati Zoo discovered that the mysterious visitor was a sea lion named “Playful George” that had escaped from a menagerie in Huntington, West Virginia and made its way nearly 200 miles downriver to the Markland Dam. George was captured and quarantined at the Zoo before returning home.

Sea Serpents In the dim, pre-dawn light of Friday, 11 January 1878, Ben Karrick was driving his horse-drawn delivery wagon over the Roebling Suspension Bridge when he saw a most unusual sight in the Ohio River below – a sea serpent. He told the Cincinnati Gazette that the creature’s serpentine head protruded from the water some twelve or fifteen feet and it lashed the water into foam with its tail. Karrick told the newspaper that the beast made a noise similar to the deep lowing of a cow, interspersed with a loud hissing noise. A day previously, John Davidson, master of the Silver Moon steamboat, saw a nearly identical monster while docked at Vevay, Indiana. In July 1893, pleasure boaters near Blennerhassett Island saw “a monstrous submarine animal or serpent, with an immense head and staring, bulbous eyes” gliding alongside their boat. The witnesses estimated the critter at more than 10 feet in length.

Underwater Pedestrian Newspapers around the nation carried the news in July 1878 that Captain John T. Guire, identified as “the celebrated submarine diver,” had entered into a wager that he would walk from Cincinnati to Cairo on the bottom of the Ohio River. Guire’s previous exploits in the Mississippi River at Saint Louis were cited as proof of his skill and determination. Although it was noted that Guire engaged in practice strolls near Cincinnati, it does not appear that the 500-mile underwater hike to Cairo ever materialized.

#ohio river #cincinnati cryptids #octoman #paul boynton #mud mermaids

[final-girl96]

Firefly Chapter Ten

Authors Note: This is just a filler chapter. The next chapter will jump two years.

Two Months Later

It was so fucking hot. The summer weather in Pennsylvania was killing me. I mean it's not as bad as summer in Texas but it was still hot. And it was fucking humid as hell. We were almost to our destination, the QZ in Boston. If it was as simple as driving the rest of the way there we would get there in like six hours. We could just go to the QZ in Philadelphia but to try and get through with the infected wasn't worth it.

We have also been having problems with raiders. We stayed in Arkansa longer than planned. It was nice until people showed up. Men, to be exact. Men who took one look at me while I was in one of the apartments…alone…helpless…easy target. One woman… four men. Four men who were much bigger and stronger. They saw me and all morals flew out the window. There were no more rules. No more laws, nobody around to stop them from doing whatever they wanted.

I tried being civil and calm. I tried to act like I wasn't scared. I fought them and screamed for Joel and Tommy until one of them punched me. It all happened so fast. One moment I was acting tough then the next I was being cornered. I smashed a vase on one of their heads, threw something else at another one.

I was pinned to the floor by another until I brought my knee up and he fell off of me. Then I was being dragged to my feet by my hair. And when I spit in his face and told him to go fuck himself he pulled his fist back and clocked me. When I was on the floor holding my jaw he kicked me in the side before climbing on top of me. But when he reached for the button on his pants and panic dug its claws beeper into me…it all ended.

There was a loud bang and he fell off of me. Three more and then there was silence. I felt hands on me and jumped back, screaming for them to let me go. "It's me! You're okay. It's just me, sweetheart." Hearing his voice calmed me and I was flinging myself into his arms. Joel wrapped his arms around me and pulled me to stand with him. He held me close to him, kissing the top of my head while I cried. He had kept his promise once again to protect me.

Now we were in a small little Pennsylvania town called Landisburg. Of course there were infected but not many. It really wasn't that big. The post office is right across from the bank. And just up the hill is the fire department. Then down for the fire department was a little gas station called East End. We had checked it out but there wasn't much left behind, which isn't surprising.

"Nice little town." Tommy hummed in agreement. Joel hasn't said much since we left Arkansa. He's just been more guarded. Of course he hasn't been himself since all this shit has happened, since Sarah…"So, you think we'll get lucky and be able to drive the rest of the way to Boston?" I asked him. There were two garages, one was right beside the gas station and the other was across the street.

I was leaning against the truck that he was looking under the hood of. Tommy was across the street looking around the other garage, Martin's. Joel and I were inside Smiths Garage, the one right beside East End Gas Station. They had a truck inside that looked like it had almost been finished before shit went down. Joel didn't answer me and my mind started to play back everything that has happened since we left Arkansa. "Joel?" Still no answer. I sighed and pushed off the truck, "okay, well…I'll leave you to it."

I start to walk past him towards the door when his hand suits out and wraps around my wrist. "Where are you going?" I look down at his hand and slowly look up at him. "To see if Tommy is having any luck." He shook his head, "you don't leave my side." I raised an eyebrow at him, "I'm just going across the street, Joel." He pulled me closer to him. "You do not leave my side. Understood?" I nodded my head, "yeah…be clingy and all over you."

He gave me a deadpanned look that said he was serious. "I understand. Don't leave your side." I moved even closer to him and wrapped my arms around his waist. "Nothing is going to happen to me, Joel. Not while I'm with you." He kissed the top of my head and hummed. "So…think we'll be lucky enough to be able to drive the rest of the way to Boston?"

Two Hours Later

"Great. Wonderful. Perfect. I guess we walked the rest of the way." We weren't even out of Pennsylvania yet and we hit a huge fucking traffic jam. There was no getting around it like we did with the other ones. "Looks like we're walking." Joel got out of the truck followed by Tommy. I groaned before opening the back door and jumped out, making sure to grab my backpack. "So, who wants to give me a pig back ride?" I said, looking at Tommy.

"Not happening. Joel will do it," he said. Joel looked at us and I smiled. "No." The smile turned into a pout, "why not?" He walked past me and started walking down the highway. "I hate this shit," I mumbled, Tommy nodding in agreement from on the other side of the truck. "Let's go! What did I tell you?" I rolled my eyes. I've noticed I've been doing that a lot lately. "Don't roll your eyes at me!" I looked at Tommy and he shrugged. "Better get up there."

It was hell walking past all the cars in the middle of the day. I was hot and humid. The sun was beating down on us. We had stopped for a small break and pulled my shirt over my head. I had a sports bra on so it's not like it would matter. Or at least I didn't think it would until Joel practically tackled me. "What the hell are you doing?"

He had planted himself right in front of me, looking over his shoulder to make sure Tommy wasn't looking. "Taking my shirt off. It's fucking hot as hell, Joel!" I tried to walk around him but his hand shot out to grab my shirt. "Put your fucking short back on." I swatted his hands away when he tried to pull it back over my head. "I am in a sports bra. Calm down. It's no different than seeing me in a bathing suit." I tried moving around him again and his hand landed on my hip. "Put your shirt back on." I rolled my eyes and knelt down to my bag, unzipped it and pulled out a tank top and pulled it over my head. "Happy?"

#joel miller x y/n #joel miller x you #joel miller fanfiction #joel miller x reader #joel miller #joel the last of us #joel miller the last of us #ellie tlou #ellie x reader #ellie the last of us #joel and ellie #ellie williams #ellie x y/n #ellie x fem reader #the last of us x you #the last of us x reader #the last of us hbo #the last of us #joel miller tlou #tlou show #tlou x reader #tlou hbo #tlou series #tess servopoulos #bloaters tlou #clickers tlou #pedro pascal

[ohc-and-the-music-tapes-archive]

Announcement of the Music Tapes' early 2009 tour, Merge Records, 21 January 2009:

The Music Tapes go West

The Music Tapes are heading to the west coast this spring! Julian, the 7 Foot Tall Metronome, Static the Television and other human bandmembers are bringing The Music Tapes live show on the road.

If you did not have the opportunity to experience the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour or Julian's singing saw caroling shows, here's your chance!

Tour Dates:

2/10 Austin, TX Mohawk 2/11 Norman, OK The Opolis 2/13 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture Gallery 2/15 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex 2/17 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill 2/19 Seattle, WA The Vera Project 2/20 Anacortes, WA Department of Safety 2/21 Portland, OR Backspace 2/24 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry 2/25 Chicago, IL AV-aerie 2/26 Ann Arbor, MI The B-side 2/27 Toronto, ON Lee's Palace 2/28 Buffalo, NY Big Orbit's Soundlab 3/1 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's 3/2 Cambridge, MA Middle East Upstairs 3/3 Brooklyn, NY The Bellhouse 3/4 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church - Basement 3/5 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle 3/7 Athens, GA 40 Watt

#the Music Tapes #Julian Koster #2009

[soberscientistlife]

Absolutely love your posts.

And I agree with your post about MOVE (the organization bombed by the Philadelphia police) except the story IS all out there. I encourage everyone to look up MOVE and the Africa Family. It’s super well documented starting in the 1970s through the 1985 bombing up to the present day when remains were found in a lab at Penn and slated for destruction without the family’s knowledge.

I watched the siege and bombing and fire that leveled literally an entire neighborhood live on local TV as a 10 year old and still remember it clear as if it just happened. It took years and years to rebuild and I believe had to be mostly torn down again due to shoddy workmanship.

The story is there. Everyone needs to know it. A large city police department dropped a bomb on an occupied house in the middle of a dense city neighborhood. For real.

Thank you and yes this needs to be taught in schools. I love that you witnessed this. Witnesses are so important when sharing history.

Below is my post this is referring to.