Good Grief!

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’m a white, hipless, hopless yuppie nerd from the farmlands of Lancaster County. The word shizzle is not in my vocabulary, and I sure as hell don’t know what bling is (though I’m pretty sure I don’t have any)*. Even so, one of my favorite movies (so far) at the Philadelphia Film Festival was Death […]

Check out the weekend Film Festival celebrity sightings! First up is Robert Downey, Sr. and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell at the first screening of Rittenhouse Square:

Next we have Damon Dash, who produced two films at the festival: Death of Dynasty and State Property II. Even though I didn’t get half […]

The Philadelphia Film Festival officially kicked off yesterday, but for me it begins tonight. As with the Fringe Festival, normal life is on hold for the duration. Ten movies in ten days:

April 8th – Somersault (Australia): Young Heidi’s emerging sexuality leads to bad decisions and rash behavior in this brutally frank […]

With the exception of one problem client*, my life coaching experiment is going well. As promised, I have feedback for those who took advantage of the free special.
Viggo Mortensen can’t get a date with his favorite blogger. Sorry, Viggo, but you are yesterday’s news. I’ve moved on.
Yoko wants advice on how to […]

It’s not good when your mother calls the soulless office park to complain about a grammatical error on your weblog. The phrase in contention concerns Wilbur, my favorite pig and the protagonist of Charlotte’s Web. I wrote that Wilbur tried to spin a web by jumping off of his manure pile.
According to Mrs. Moon Pappy, […]

Ah, the soulless office park seemed a million miles away. Welcome back, Phillies! I’m still pissed about Doug Glanville, but Citizen’s Bank Park sells veggie burgers now, so the universe is back in balance. Thanks to Blankbaby Scott for the exta ticket!
UPDATE: Overall, I’d rather be a bad dancer than have […]

This entry is not a meme.  I don’t do memes.  Seriously, who wants to read about the "ABCs of me" or see a picture of my kitchen junk drawer?  So please know that the questions below, sent by Splurge the bad-ass Montreal weblogger, are part of a survey.  Not a meme.  Clear?
Because I love […]

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.
This […]

Here it is almost 1:00 PM on April Fool’s day, and I haven’t instigated or witnessed a single prank (except for Google Gulp, which is only mildly amusing). Thankfully, the past week has produced some hysterical weblog entries that make up for this lack of April Fool’s goodness.

Geese Aplenty explains organic spam filters and lists […]