Good Grief!

Last week’s All Wear Bowlers outing was my first visit to Old City’s Mum Puppettheatre. One of the best things about that space is the lights made of four-sided cheese graters. What a brilliant idea! The venue contains sconce lighting in the form of cheese graters attached to the walls; in addition, […]

The City Paper’s most recent cover story discusses Philadelphia’s ailing public transportation system and ways to revamp it*. I was innocently reading along, agreeing with some of the ideas, until I saw this monstrosity:
SEPTA [Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority] could incentivize riders in creative ways…
Ouch. I thought we’d seen the last of incentivize when […]

The Market Report is a weekly column written by Ken Klein of Klein’s Supermarket in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood. He writes the column for the Art Museum Area News and kindly allows me to post it here.
Executive summary:

Lettuce problems continue
Tomato market remains weak.
Star Ruby grapefruit to the rescue!

Read on for the entire report.

The Market Report, […]

For the low, low price of $1,100, you too can be plagued by voyeuristic fish while attending to personal matters. Behold, Aquariass.
Via boss-across-the-hall (!).

consumer whore wtf?

Every winter I am vexed by snow and ice on the sidewalks surrounding Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary. The perimeter of this facility is eight city blocks, so shoveling there is no small task. But someone’s gotta do it. Right?
On Monday, I decided to be a power citizen. I called the Penitentiary’s […]

When did allowing a stranger to approach your genitals with hot wax become standard personal hygiene procedure?

miscellaneous fluff wtf?

He went home sick yesterday, which did not stop him from e-nagging the entire team via Outlook. I have a theory about what ails him.
Recall last summer when boss-across went on a sunflower seed diet that made his legs skinny. Well, now he’s on the Turbo Omega 3 fish pill plan.
Boss-across: This is […]

I took some post-blizzard pictures when walking down to Old City for All Wear Bowlers and passing what seems like almost every tourist attraction in Philly.
But that’s not the big news. The Eagles are going to the Superbowl. Wait, that’s not the big news either. Philadelphia’s very own Mac of pesky’apostrophe is […]

While everyone else was digging out of the snow and watching the Eagles, Scott* and I caught the Sunday matinee of All Wear Bowlers, produced by 1812 and performed at Mum Puppettheatre. From Phillyfunguide.com:
Two silent film clowns take a wrong turn and find themselves in a haunted theatre, where hard-boiled eggs play tricks on […]

Did you know that pretzels, a popular American source of carbohydrates, are a sacred snack*?

Monks used them to reward children who memorized Bible verses.
The pretzel twist represents a child’s arms in prayer.
The three holes represent the Christian trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

What, then, are we to make of the “Philly […]