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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 […]

I recently heard of talk that Good Grief should feature a new mix of the week but probably won’t because I “have a life now.” WTF? I’ve always had a life. Type it to my face, mister (you know who you are). To retaliate, I’ve created the ultimate annoying mix for […]

After reading the latest Wired Japanese schoolgirl watch, I am thankful not to be a Japanese schoolgirl. The pressure to have the latest Hello Kitty gadget! The endless quest for cuteness! The constant buzzing, ringing, and beeping of electronic devices! How do they do it?
Japanese schoolgirls are now wearing spooky black […]

Here is the obligatory weblog entry about last night’s Philadelphia premiere of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Obligatory because we got to see the movie free and before opening day, which allows me to say this: neener neener.
Seriously, I’m never on the list for anything, so I get excited about stuff like movie […]

Max Raabe and Palast Orchester are playing Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, November 30th. My plan is to rally the local Max Raabe fan club and charter a Chinatown bus.
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Jim and Jennie & The Pinetops haven’t been to Philadelphia in such a long time that I’d stopped checking the performance schedule on their website. But the ever-excellent Bloodshot Records announced today that Rivers Roll on By, the new Jim and Jennie CD, is now available!
Even better, the band is playing two Philly […]

Good Grief has a strict no quiz policy. You know, because people who put quizzes on weblogs are mindless followers with nothing original to say. Who cares what 70s punk rock drummer or lipstick color I am? I don’t wear lipstick, and I don’t need a silly quiz to know that I’m […]

Just when you figure out the one-size-fits-all food pyramid, Uncle Sam scraps the whole system and replaces it with twelve different pyramids, all of which have vertical stripes that are not only unfashionable but fuck up the entire pyramid metaphor. People, pyramids do not have vertical stripes!
Due to a bad case of pyramid paralysis, […]

Wow, that last post was cheesy. Is this still a Philadelphia weblog? Hell, yeah. Just to prove it, here’s a picture of the next door neighbor’s latest sign. He likes to make signs.

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Are Fairmount residents protesting the high price of gas? Nope. This procession can mean only one thing—opening day for the Fairmount Sports Association’s baseball and softball leagues. Every year, team members and coaches don their uniforms and march through Fairmount to the tune of bagpipes, ending up at Von Colln Field for […]