October 2008
3 posts
Watch“The Senate is very proud to have done the work they’re supposed to do all the time.”
Best Daily Show clip I think I’ve ever seen…
September 2008
3 posts
Need a job? $17,000 an hour. No success required. →
Nick Kristof, although I’m still bitter about being a runner up for your international correspondence essay contest (at least they still published it on nytimes.com), I would like to commend you for the best Op-Ed I’ve read in a looooooong time.
“I’m delighted to announce that Mr. Fuld (who continues to lead Lehman since it entered bankruptcy proceedings this week) is the winner...
This just in: Palin's naughty little daughter... →
Palin is sooo fucked. As you see below, she already lied about being pregnant to cover Bristol’s last pregnancy. Now, she’s having her second, and Palin has no choice but to admit her daughter is a sex monger.
August 2008
4 posts
The Happiest of Taps →
My last and most recent piece for the Spirit, profiling the Happy Tap, one of Fishtown’s neighborhood favorite dives. On to my last semester of school and perhaps another internship…
July 2008
18 posts
Do yourself a favor: Become a couch surfer. →
The Couch Surfing Project is by far one of the coolest web sites/non-profit organizations out there. I was enlightened while in Urumqi, China, where I met several couch surfers and actually stayed with one.
The premise is simple: People from around the world post a couch/spare bed/floor that backpackers or travelers on a shoestring budget can crash on. In turn, whenever you travel, you have a...
“Sometimes you want to scream about shit, and sometimes you want to talk as...”
– James DeWees of Reggie and the Full effect, on the dynamics of his latest studio record. Last Stop: Crappy Town is a concept record based on the different New York City trains DeWees took in order to get to rehab.
Read the full interview here.
Why I love writing bar columns, a.k.a, drunk at...
Ah, the glorious Barroom Heroes column. Always a wonderful opportunity to shine a light on a local watering hole, give a simple history lesson on the neighborhood, and paint a colorful picture of the local patrons. And drink for free. And this week, drink a lot for almost free.
After writing the bike share story, I wasn’t in the mood for anything big this week. I was hoping to write another...
Anyone else hate Fox News? →
The Onion, Fox News Racism: Intentional?
…Noted that Obama looks like the Fox News team’s “one friend”…
Finally... my bike share article. →
First top-fold front. Booyah.
If Hybrids are the new SUV’s, then bicycles should be the new Hybrids. With gas in Philadelphia well over four dollars a gallon, many city-dwellers are struggling to keep their oil-hungry automobiles satisfied. As global warming awareness spreads, the desire to go “green,” or eco-friendly, is a steadily growing trend.
While some Hybrids offer nearly 50 miles to the...
The best un-cancelled cartoon ever. No, not Family...
Venture Bros. season three is underway, and the latest episode is hilarious.
Check it out on Adult Swim before the link is gone (or I’ll just find it elsewhere later).
Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman
There is another season three that I’m dying to catch… Dexter, of course. I better start saving up for that Showtime subscription. (And that Exterminators show sounds pretty cool,...
“I want to cut his nuts off.”
– Everyone’s favorite Reverend, Jesse Jackson, in an excerpt from his “hot mic” fiasco. Thanks, Fox News!
Get off Obama’s nuts, people!
Columnist Pimping, or, The Joys of Interning.
Like I had done several weeks ago, my editor asked me to write an easy “Barroom Heroes” column about a local hole-in-the-wall dive. I had done one in Fishtown, and he wanted me to find one in Port Richmond or Northern Liberties. I recalled going to a small establishment called the Handle Bar several months prior to the internship, which was a pretty fun place. I approached the bartender and...
Electric Feel gets Justice-ified. →
So, back to MGMT. I just checked the Hype Machine, and Justice already transformed one of my current favorite songs into a hipster super-mega-dance jam. I can’t wait to spill PBR on a drunk girl’s American Apparel v-neck. I’m such a contradiction.
Love it or loathe it? (I must have seen that scion xB commercial one too many times on Adult Swim…)
“My old man said that the way ancient dudes never got their ladies pregnant,...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, teaching the kids about contraception in Snuff (hilarity — horrible, awkward hilarity — obviously ensues)
Was anyone else disappointed at Chuck’s latest installment?
My job that doesn't pay
So, I finally got top fold (in all 3 editions) this week at the Spirit. It’s still not live on the webpage yet, though. I have no idea why. I’ll post it later on.
Anyway, the story is about the proposed bike share program that passed through City Hall in Philly a few weeks back. It looks like we’re geared for an actual program, although the D.C. program is still in...
