Good Grief!

Milk? Check.
Stack of books and magazines? Check.
Blanket? Check.
Christopher Elbow spiced drinking chocolate? Check.
Leftover tortilla pie and shoo fly pie? Check.
Lawnchair to stake out parking spot? Tomorrow’s problem.

Bring it on.
UPDATE: Karl over at Philly Future is compiling a fun list of weblogger storm coverage. Sure beats Hurricane Schwartz.

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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. The report is a fascinating look at the forces that drive the quality and price of our […]

The big day is finally here. I know that many of you lost sleep last night wondering who would win the Good Grief! license plate contest. Without further ado…
Oh, except to say that I picked up Ghetto II last Saturday, and the car is so shiny and new-looking that I can’t really call […]

Jen of Good Intentions fame is sending a little Georgia love concerning this Sunday’s Eagles versus Falcons football game. She proposes a friendly wager: if the Eagles win, I get an Atlanta treat; if the Falcons win, I have to ship some Philly goodness down South*.
Once again, I require your valuable input. If the Eagles […]

A new mix of the week is here. The theme? Don’t do your woman wrong, or else she will record a song about you and become famous, and then you’ll be sorry. No, no one’s done me wrong (that I know of); I was inspired by hearing Aimee Mann on the Doobies […]

Guess who made the 2,000th comment on Good Grief!? None other than the infamous Moon Pappy. And why, you ask, is Moon Pappy called Moon Pappy?
Moon Pappy loves to work in the garden. He spends many hours planting, weeding, mulching, and composting and spends a lot of his extra money on trees and shrubbery. […]

Here in Philly, we are distressed about the financial woes of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA), the organization that runs our busses, trolleys, subways, and regional trains. Every year SEPTA ends up short on cash, and every year miracle money mysteriously appears to pull it through the crisis.
But this year, SEPTA really, really means […]

Brother Dan S got me Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less for Christmas–proof that someone actually looks at my Amazon wishlist.
The Paradox of Choice, which falls somewhere between a self-help book and a psychology 101 text, claims that the abundance of options available to middle-class Americans is harmful, a counterintuitive idea […]

Thanks to Jen for the link.
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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.
The report is a fascinating look at the forces that drive the quality and price of our food; if […]