Good Grief!

When you sign up to live in Fishtown, they throw in a study as part of the deal*. See this study? I’m sitting in it right now, studying, and I can feel myself getting smarter by the minute. Can’t you just feel the brainwaves oozing out of your monitor?
*While supplies last. […]

The no-blogging-about-the-two-bosses-downstairs rule is still in effect, but what if one or both of them happen to appear as incidental characters in a post? They deserve better nicknames than “boss downstairs number one” and “boss downstairs number two.”
What to name the new bosses?

Jay and Silent Bob

Weebl and Bob
The Doobie Brothers
Pinky and the Brain

Thing 1 […]

Continuing last week’s theme of weblogs and their impact on offline life…I used to perceive webloggers as introverted, awkward geeks who never leave the house. After starting Good Grief!, however, I found the opposite to be true and met a lot of interesting, like-minded people*, got Blankbabied (i.e., got a job lead based on […]

This post might be a bad idea:

I do not like meta-blogging
I do not blog about my personal life

However, there’s been some talk lately about the intersection of blogs and real life and the influence of the former upon the latter. Specifically, my friend and co-worker Scott was on the front page of last Sunday’s […]

Yeah, yeah… Google has some super cool applications. As you surely know, Google Maps makes Mapquest seem so late 90s. And Gmail is great once you embrace the “no folders” way of thinking.
But this new Google Talk instant messaging thing being spewed all over the Internet? As Scott observed, it has […]

These dog days of summer are drawing to a close, and life is slowly returning to the normal routine of “doing stuff” instead of “packing stuff” and “unpacking stuff” and “having nervous breakdowns and stuff.”
Last weekend I finally got to the Rodin Museum for the weekly 1 PM Sunday tour. Though […]

‘Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance
Well they’re no friends of mine
It is time to put these outdated prejudices behind us. We must strive to embrace all of humanity—even those people who do not dance. It is not our place to judge, and we cannot truly understand those who do […]

From this week’s I Love You/I Hate You section of the Philadelphia City Paper:
FUCKING FUCKHEADS -
Attention city drivers: Stay out of Becky’s way. I heard she’s looking into a stun gun.
PS Mom, don’t worry. I am still on a cussing hiatus, but the expletives above are a quote*, so it’s okay.
*Specifically, a […]

So what does it mean when you arrive home on a dark and stormy night to find an apparent doll suicide in your back yard? The properties to the left and right are currently vacant, so this poor, plastic creature obviously jumped from the second story of the house behind me.

UPDATE: Dan has […]

Sherri W reminds us that the one and only Max Raabe will be performing at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center on Thursday, December 1st.
It is a dream come true! Now I don’t have to do the original plan of chartering a Chinatown bus for Max’s Carnegie Hall show, which is beyond my organizational capabilities and also […]