This is an imagined monologue. I’m borrowing a modern habit—comedians and entertainers sitting on talk shows, reminiscing about the greats, circling their influences with equal
Month: December 2025
A Queen Anne Landmark on Ninth Street Hill Seen from the street, the Kress Home presents itself as a study in confidence, complexity, and deliberate
New rule: let’s stop being mad about everything. Not “stop caring.”Not “look away.”Just stop living in a constant state of grievance cosplay. Outrage has become
Shelby Kelley Records “Raggedy Man” — An Ode to Todd Snider Some songs aren’t written to chase a moment. They’re written because a moment hit
And That Means Everyone Name’s Philip Randolph Wright. Mister Wright if we are doing buisiness. This country owes the working class. That’s not politics. That’s
This is a straightforward article about bidets, online behavior, and money. Not a joke. Not an ad disguised as humor. An explanation, a case study,
At 510 Vine Street in Johnstown, there is a building that does not quite belong to its surroundings—and that is exactly why it matters. In
The First four thought experiments in this chain. Before we go any further, here’s a brief recap of how this thought experiment started—and how we
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Open Source the Future: Why Food, Water, and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone
Open the Knowledge or Admit the System Is a Lie Capitalism, regulated trade, markets—fine.I’m not here to argue against exchange or incentive. Capitalism is very
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Merry Christmas
& Happy Holidays from the Blue Ribbon Team A Christmas Note From All of Us at Cernunnos Foundation & Blue Ribbon Team As the year
The Charles Q. Clapp House and the Limits of Greek Revival The Charles Q. Clapp House stands as a well-preserved example of mid-19th-century Greek Revival
On Change, Systems, and Learning How the World Actually Works Everything is about water. Most people hear that and think I’m talking about survival. Drinking
If you want to understand Johnstown in one stop—its grief, its grit, and its insistence on being a real city again—you walk to the northeast
I think one of the strangest things about living right now is how little anyone is expected to see. Not in a moral sense.In a
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Seasonal Amnesia
This piece is offered in honor of the long side of the winter solstice. We have crossed the dark hinge of the year and come
On the Winter Solstice The winter solstice is not loud.It does not announce itself with fireworks or proclamations. It arrives quietly, almost unnoticed, marked not
My name’s Phil Wright. Mister Wright if we are doing business. I’ve been around a long time. Long enough to hear every trick word folks
A Monument to the Age When We Built to Last If you want to understand Indiana—really understand it—don’t start with the highways or the cornfields.
For the last decade, artificial intelligence has been built on a single, mostly unchallenged assumption: Smoother systems think better. Uniform processors.Uniform precision.Uniform clocks.Uniform routing.Minimal friction.
There’s never a wrong day to watch the internet rediscover political theory, but this morning’s show leaned Marxist. A cluster of very confident posters were
And Why We’ve Been Burying the Future Instead In Star Trek, the replicator is treated like magic. You ask for a thing, and the machine
RIP actor Rip Gerard.
I think it’s finally time to admit something that has been… simmering in my laundry baskets, hiding behind my bedroom door, and possibly forming a
Set slightly off the main flow of Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse, the Rideout Fountain is the kind of public artwork that doesn’t announce itself
Grammina used to say the Garden story wasn’t about snakes or shame or any of the usual Sunday-school furniture. “It’s about ease, child,” she’d mutter,
Name’s Phil Wright.Mister Wright, if you’re on the clock. I once had a young fella on a jobsite who worked like his life depended on
A proposal to turn blighted malls into rescue colonies, living archives, and a non-invasive research platform for animal intelligence America has a growing inventory of
Supercritical: The Frontier State of Matter We’re Ignoring — and Why It Might Be the Real Science of Alchemy There’s a strange truth running quietly
New Cave Art Discovery Suggests “Bedrock” Was a Real Neolithic Community — And Yes, Archaeologists Say Barney Rubble Was Definitely There In what can only
I’m not an artist. I always feel like I need to say that first, because anytime I talk about creativity, someone assumes I’m trying to
ManMade: The Italianate That Refuses To Apologize A Blue Ribbon Team Feature on the Peck–Congdon House (and Why We Need Buildings Like This Again) There’s
“I Am an Edge Species.” People ask me what niche I fill.What role I play.What “space” Bright Meadow Group occupies in the consulting world. Here’s
The trouble with freedom these days is not that we have too little of it, but that we have forgotten what it is made of.
The name is PR Wright, Mr Wright if we are doing business. Folks like to treat the world of work as if it’s a set
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What Happens When We Stop Starving Our Artists
A Long-Form Thought Experiment About AI, Creativity, and the Case for Universal Basic Income There’s a moment every artist knows, whether they say it out
There are towns where public art feels like it fell out of a grant application — stainless steel, vaguely geometric, installed by a committee that
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Three Views on Wealth
An Editorial Conversation from The Blue Ribbon Team Every so often the internet kicks up a little dust that tells a much bigger story than
We’ve been in southwestern Pennsylvania long enough now to have a flurry of places we’ve eaten at, loved, and fully intended to write about. Truth
There comes a moment every December—usually right around the time I can see my breath inside my car—that my inner seasonal compass gently nudges me