Now that @JoeBiden is safely inaugurated, I want to talk about how crazy it has been to be a Wilmington/Philadelphia (née Syracuse) person through this past year.

The word “surreal” has grown soft through overuse, but… this shit has been surreal.

I’ve met Hunter and Beau and I worked on a project (incidentally the project I’m most proud of) with Ashley. But here’s what you need to understand about Delaware: That’s not special. Everyone knows everyone in Delaware. Truly. We have this thing called “The Delaware Twist.”

“The Delaware Twist,” coined by Kristen Kuipers, is this thing when you’re about to talk about someone in Delaware and you look around because it’s entirely possible the person is right behind you.

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Here’s a picture of my wife. She and the guy behind her both went to Syracuse Law.

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I’m not exaggerating about The Delaware Twist. It is a physiological, pre-cognitive, reptilian response. You just check who’s behind you before speaking.

This picture of my wife (girlfriend at the time) was at lunch in our building in Wilmington in 2010. I was in my pajamas:

I spent four years with an office IN the Joseph R. Biden Railroad Station in Wilmington. Our office was ON the platform. When he was VP, we’d have black SUVs pull up in the alley, Biden would get off the train, wave to us, and disappear. I’ll never have an office that cool again.

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My current office has a network link and Senator Chris Coons uses it to go on TV.

In March, my COO, in a not-good-joke way, asked Coons “So, are we all gonna die?” He responded: “We’re about to experience the greatest disruption of civilian life since the Second World War.”

“Oh.”

Then I got a call from one of my nerd heroes in California that they potentially wanted to use our studios as Biden Media HQ. I met with the Biden team several times, and I recommended The Queen for one of the things they needed. They ended up using it for everything. 🤦‍♂️

Then, on election night, when I knew Biden had won Arizona and Georgia (yes I called Georgia election night, I have proof, texts showed the Trump team knew it… use Twitter, it’s amazing), it became clear this thing was going to be called for Biden when Philadelphia was counted…

I live in Philadelphia. Our count put Biden over the top. There was no better place to be in America the day they called the election. It was a lot like the other good thing that happened in the last four years (the Eagles winning The Greatest Game Ever Played).

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Then there was Four Seasons Total Landscaping, objectively the funniest thing that happened in the last four years. Here’s the worst brag in this whole unintentional bragthread: My wife and I had stayed in the actual Four Seasons for our one date night of the year that week!

Then there’s this guy, who fixed everyone’s Macs, and whose shop (“shoppe” 🙄) I personally hung out in, nerding out about Steve Jobs/Apple lore with him.

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He never gave any indication that he was bananapants aside from the hat. For any doubters, he is, definitely, blind.

There’s more but I’ll stop. This thing has just felt really… close to home. Thanks for allowing my unbearable indulgence. Needed to purge this. Philadelphia, Wilmington, and the 30 minutes between them got a front row seat for a really important fight.

Thank God it’s over for now.