Good Grief!

Since starting the new super-secret job, I’ve refrained from using “colorful language” on Good Grief! Apparently, some of my new, super-secret coworkers know all about this super-secret site, and unlike my soulless office park compatriots, who weren’t hip to the whole blog thing, they actually read it.
Not only that, they’re waiting for me to […]

UPDATE: Oh, now I get it. From yesterday’s Daily News:
Paul Giamatti is friendly, and a metal-head. So says a guy who met the “Sideways” star Monday at 18th and Chestnut streets.
Giamatti, in town to film M. Night Shyamalan’s “Lady in the Water” up in Bristol, noticed our tipster staring at him and asked […]

I have some fabulous news for those who think that a certain blog-oriented convention scheduled for the Labor Day holiday is just a tad creepy. Register now for my non-creepy convention, which will be held in Philadelphia during the same weekend: the first annual BigButtBlogCon.
Why should you attend BigButtBlogCon? For starters, just […]

On Friday night, the Scribe Video Center’s Street Movies! program came to Fishtown. Films included Shouts from the Crowd, a documentary about local jazz band Nate Wiley and the Crowd Pleasers, From the Del to the El, a story about the evolution of Fishtown, and Still Life With Animated Dogs.
The hit of the evening […]

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to visit Maine’s Acadia National Park. Note to skeptics: I was a reasonably successful camper, surviving timed showers (4 minutes!), thunderstorms, slimy cheese from the cooler, various creepy crawlers, and a whiney kid at the campsite next door.
Acadia is the only US national park comprised […]

As required by the laws of home ownership, I recently acquired a drill (thanks, Clair) and have been making holes in the basement. Now that I possess both a drill and a fifty pound Solid-State Osterizer Cyclomatic blender, I’m pretty much unstoppable, so don’t mess with me.
Did you hear that Verizon? Don’t mess […]