Good Grief!

Sure, the public transit system in your town is probably less expensive and more customer-friendly than the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA), which serves the Philadelphia region and recently went on a week-long strike. But does it hand out $600,000 trading cards?
The SEPTA cards are the talk of the town, and now thanks to […]

Last Saturday, a strange message from my mother (who really needs a better nickname than “Mrs. Moon Pappy”) appeared on the answering machine:
Hi Beck, just wondering if I won a contest on your blog. Let me know!
Am I having a contest?

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The pressure to produce informative and entertaining weblog content is overwhelming, yet who has the time, what with getting up at the crack of dawn to walk from Fishtown to the Market East train station and then fighting the teeming regional rail masses and then running from the 30th Street station to the office because […]

It’s a good news/bad news kind of day. The good news is that I am Philly Future’s new featured blogger; my reign of terror begins today with an interview in which I pontificate about the significance of weblogs. Thanks to the Philly Future team!
The bad news is, of course, that our beloved South […]

Clair, resident Good Grief! heckler, asks about last week’s Gumby posts and wonders was I really out of town? Well, yeah, unless you know of a Philly In-N-Out Burger with palm trees in the parking lot.
I was lucky enough to attend a Macromedia convention in Anaheim with about a dozen of my new, super-secret […]

Or maybe the buggy driver escaped via rollerblade. Thanks to Moon Pappy for scanning this article from the Lancaster New Era.

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Ann Taylor Loft woman: Can I start you a wardrobing room?

Me: You mean a fitting room?

ATLW: Yes, a wardrobing room.
5 minutes later:
Ann Taylor Loft guy: Would you like me to start a wardrobing room for you?

Me: I already have a fitting room, thanks.
5 minutes later:
Ann Taylor loft guy: […]

If people were after you, trying to turn you into chips, fries, hash browns, or a delicious pierogie, you’d probably wear a disguise too.

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A nip is in the air, the daylight is still in savings, and the weekend forecast is sun and more sun. To celebrate, a road trip to Ricketts Glenn State Park on Saturday and Sunday. Which means, of course, that Friday night is devoted to baking the season’s first batch of pumpkin muffins.
After […]

On Saturday night I dreamed that I had to go back to kindergarten. Attendance was mandatory, and I was pissed. “I have a masters degree,” I thought. “Why the hell do I need remedial kindergarten?” So I arrived late to class, which was being held in a large, modern auditorium, slunk […]