Good Grief!

Antidotes to the mid-winter blahs:

Tonight! A Davey and Goliath marathon, courtesty of Secret Cinema (includes a bonus Gumby reel).
Flat Possum Boys play Thursday nights at Fiume, the bar above Abyssinia
(an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly). It’s embarrassing that the
first time I’ll see the infamous bluegrass night is next Thursday.
Who knew that Christo, that crazy […]

All hail Superwoman, who jetted to California and loaned me her car. So far, Superwoman’s ghetto car and I have had many adventures:

Field trip to Camden, the most dangerous city in the United States.
Is this a lane? This is a lane, right? But why are there two lanes over there? Uh, there […]

UPDATE: It really is a cell phone, but I have not joined the ranks of the cellulites. This phone was a gift from my yet-to-be-nicknamed mother, who read somewhere that merely waving a cell phone around will thwart would-be attackers. I found it when cleaning out the ghetto car’s glove box.

cell phone […]

We’ve all been assigned work tasks unrelated to our actual job descriptions. For example, last year I got the following instruction:
Tell Annoying E to stop sending those fucking e-mails. But say it nicer than that.
I’m happy to oblige because I’m a professional company woman. In addition, I excel at sending polite messages that tell the […]

During the past year, I have not always treated the international community with respect. I got jealous of the cute Japanese Good Grief!, boycotted hard Ukrainian Quizzo, accused the Russians of trying to taint the US Presidential election, and exposed the outsourced Indian ice cream man.
But no more: 2005 is all about fostering […]

Pennsylvania drivers are not required to put license plates on the front of their cars; this freedom is just one advantage of living in the Keystone State.
A Maryland-based friend of mine insists that the “no front license plate” loophole allows Pennsylvania drivers to run people over, drive away in reverse, and escape the scene undetected, […]

January 1st was the one year anniversary of Good Grief! Back in the day, many of the posts were political and sports-oriented and not even written by me.
You know what I like about this site? The diversity of people who stop by: Democrats, Republicans, parents, students, homosexuals, heterosexuals, metrosexuals, carnivores, herbivores, Christians, atheists, […]

The ghetto car, which has not seen a hose since 2001, expresses extreme surprise at my resolution to wash it:

Everyone is fine. Silver lining: the last time the car had serious work done*, the body shop returned it all nice and sparkly clean. If the shop still provides this service, I get […]

Okay, enough about Kansas City—time for some Philly goodness. Did you know that Philadelphia webloggers have great contests*?
I won a can of limited edition Crazy Aaron’s Mistletoe Thinking Putty for putting the 1,001th comment on Blankbaby, and as per the contest rules, I had to be photographed receiving the prize. Though I haven’t […]

I was lucky enough to grow up in a town that smells like chocolate. Lititz, Pennsylvania is the home of Wilbur Chocolate, and I remember the sweet smell that would waft through the air as the neighborhood gang played ball or built forts or terrorized the old lady next door.
Though I’m not a chocolate […]