Jerome Hodos

@jhodos.bsky.social

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Lost in Megalopolis: Global urbanism, sociology, city politics, planning, street vitality. Professor, Franklin & Marshall College; mistakes all my own.

The album cover for Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star. It's a yellow wood-grain background with red and green design and images of their faces printed on it, almost like a wood cut.
Graffiti painting of several people gathered outside in the summer enjoying themselves, outside the Boca Juniors football stadium, with most of the painting done in the team's colors of yellow and blue.
A graffiti painting of 5 bubbles with different facial expressions, done in lavender.
"When I assign analysis, I am not trying to extract a polished product; I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not 'free students up for higher-order work.' It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all."
Republican Senator John Kennedy, commenting on the bill: "'You'll never get a bill - you gentlemen know this better than I do - that everybody loves and gives everybody an orgasm,' he told reporters. 'You just gotta do the best you can.'"
Photo of a doorway to a rowhouse. The door has a white background, and is covered with an angry Cubist portrait of a person, all teeth, mismatched eyes, purple fingers and feet.
Quote from the linked article that reads: "The now notorious El Niño - Spanish for 'little boy' - was named by fishers in the Pacific in the 1800s."
An "In the Weights" AI hallucination response, saying that I a was a defensive back in American football.
Photo from a ledge overlook on the Appalachian Trail in PA, of a bright blue sky with little fluffy clouds on a sunny day, looking south from Peters Mtn toward Stony Mtn, full of bright green trees.
Photo of a black cat comfortably ensconced in a large paper shopping bag full of office paper shredding.
The cover art for Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation album - a Gerhard Richter candle painting.
Photo of some fingers holding the cover of the classic Marx-Engels Reader, edited by Robert Tucker. The cover has the exact same color scheme as the OP: red background, some lines of the text in white, some lines in yellow. The fonts don't quite match, but the colors match precisely.
A painted wall on a low-slung building along a dusty dirt road. The wall is painted white with political candidates' names on it in blue, charcoal gray, and gold, and it asks people to "VOTA TODO" for local offices.
Pep Guardiola and Enzo Maresca arm in arm, smiling and walking off a soccer field, both in navy-blue Man City training kits. Both are balding, heads shaved clean, with salt-and-pepper beards, and about the same height.
Photo of a baseball park near sunset, with green field, 40,000 people in the stands, yellow to orange sky, and the Phanatic driving his golf cart around the outfield.
A freight train traveling across a bridge over a river. One car has the word "YCARS" spray-painted on it in big, block green letters.
Photo of an old, wood-paneled Buick Roadmaster station wagon from behind, in highway ramp traffic.
Poster advertising a talk by Asef Bayat called "Democracy and Everyday Life." The poster has a very blurred background of people walking in a street scene; superimposed are the title, a photo of the speaker, and a short speaker bio.
A solemn moment of national grief and recognition. The Bidens and Harrises standing in front of the reflecting pool at the Washington Monument on the evening before their inauguration in January 2021. Lining both sides of the pool are candles or lights signifying the 400,000 lives lost to Covid by that date.
Photo of a partly eaten chicken pot pie on a cutting board next to a rolling pin. The pie has a lattice top, and also contains peas, carrots, and pearl onions.
A wall-mural-sized graffito of a riotous profusion of plants in differing shades of green.
"Aides to the non-living former presidents could not be reached for comment." But if they could have disavowed this clusterfuck, they would have too.
Black stencil of the word REVOLT spray-painted on a planter wall, 1-2 feet above the sidewalk. The E is backwards, and the O is a red keystone, like the symbol for the state of Pennsylvania.
A black and white photograph of the Grateful Dead in 1970, sitting around on hay bales outside a cedar-shingle barn.
The back cover art for a Kate Bush album, depicting Kate Bush dressed up as a bat.
If democracy rests on mutual recognition, on our capacity to see each other as full and equal persons, then the power to speak and be heard lies at the foundation of democratic life. It is when we speak — when we argue, appeal, explain and testify — that we put into practice our belief in the ability of others to understand, reason and empathize. Or as Thomas Jefferson remarked in 1824, “In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.”
Close-up graffiti of a calendar painted on a crumbling white stucco wall. The dates go from right to left; the 11th day has a blue stencil of a pigeon in it, and the 12th has a blue stencil of a tractor in it. All dates include Arabic script in the same blue color.
The chasing goose meme, with the goose shouting after Elon Musk and Charles Murray to ask them if they think we should classify Türkiye as part of "the West."
Newspaper headline that reads, "His parents wanted him to follow Jesus. He chose polyamory instead."
Graffiti painting in mixed sun and shadow on the wall of a building. It's a cute but much-bigger-than-life-size, geeky-looking baby blue bird with a red beak, with a yellow and green background.
A quote from the article noting that Heritage's center for legal studies will receive "assistance" from longtime voter-fraud confabulist Hans von Spakovsky.
Photo of a gaudily overdecorated kitchen in a penthouse apartment with a 4-foot-tall black stone statue on the kitchen island. Presumably the entire interior design scheme was accomplished while the contractor was absolutely zooted on 3702 sugar cubes of LSD.
Photo of a bottle of Troegs Brewing’s Mad Elf Grand Cru.
An early morning photo showing gray clouds and white moon in a yellowish dawn sky, above train tracks and catenary wires.
On average, first-time full-time in-district students at public two-year colleges have been receiving enough grant aid to cover their tuition and fees since 2009-10. (Figure CP-8) The average net tuition and fees paid by first-time full-time in-state students enrolled in public four-year institutions...
A text graffito in angular, burnt-orange letters on a whitish-gray wall: VIVA EL PUNK. The N is backwards, like a Cyrillic letter, and the I has an x above it instead of a dot.
Two cats, one black and one gray, curled up together in a cat bed, looking skeptically (you aren’t gonna give us treats, are you) at the picture taker.
Map of Pennsylvania by county in different shades of pink and red, with darker colors corresponding to higher percentage premium increases.
A stencil-designed spray paint figure in black on a cream-colored wall: A man in a suit, white shirt, and tie, holding a gun that shoots a drip spraypaint shot, with what looks like a turnip for a head.
The album cover from the Reverend Horton Heat's Smoke 'em if You Got 'em LP, featuring the Reverend smiling in a cream plaid jacket on a yellow background.
Graffiti of a big pink squid with big googly eyes on a gray-painted concrete wall.
Written graffiti in blue spray paint on an off-white stucco wall: "Tú no eres sin mi Yo solo soy contigo!!"
A building-size, multicolored mural under puffy clouds with larger-than-life portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol in orange v-neck pullovers.
Graffito of white text on concrete sidewalk, saying (in Spanish), "I am the artwork."
A photo of the outdoor landscaping of the new Calder Gardens sculpture park in Philadelphia, showing a mirrored, reflective structure and native plants under a blue sky with little puffy clouds and skyscrapers in the background.
A graffiti painting on a concrete wall. The letters are in black with white outlining (I LOVE MIAMI), and the background is in fuschia with orangeish-pink accents.
The cover art for Kool Keith's album as Dr. Octagon, featuring a drawing of a skeleton in a black coat, holding a skull.
The famous drawing of Snoopy from Peanuts starting to type out his novel with the sentence, "It was a dark and stormy night," but with stormy replaced by "windless."
A painting of two condors on a concrete wall, about 2.5 meters tall. The condors are black with accents of yellow, olive green, red, and light blue; one condor is shedding a tear. The background is a stylized sun with concentric circles of different colors.