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May 15, 2008

Shameless-Self Promotion For 5.15

Check this out: NORML posted my column this week, which was about the media's coverage of drugs. I'll be High Times Stoner of the Year in no time.

And, in other news, I'm a finalist for an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Alt-Weekly award for best blog at a paper with a circulation of over 55,000. I'm up against Nikke Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily and Washington City Paper's City Desk blog. (And I even forgot to submit that post about the Barbaro messageboard!) I plan on breaking kneecaps 'til I'm the only one left standing.

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May 12, 2008

Other 'PW' Blogger One-Ups Me

It appears both current Philadelphia Weekly bloggers were in the news over the weekend as Liz Spikol was written up in the New York Times over the weekend.

Geeze, you'd think it's 2006 with all these stories on bloggers. What's next, another racehorse who breaks his leg in the Triple Crown? Er.

And, yes, if you haven't seen it, here's my clip on the Friday 10 o'clock news.

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May 09, 2008

Today

I am off ("off") to work on redesign stuff for this blog. Really. I'm going to do a few posts -- including one about Gossip Girl -- so stop by a few times.

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April 29, 2008

Yo

My cold has come back, inexplicably, and so I'm going to take a long nap in the hopes it will disappear and probably just take the day off. I know, I know, I'm letting youse down, but if you've been reading my blog and haven't realized I hate everything and everyone... well, yeah, you all realize that, I hope.

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March 27, 2008

Technical Difficulties

We're back. Updates to resume soon. Bla bla bla.

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March 17, 2008

Back!

Yes, I'm back. Did I miss anything?

Clearly, a lot. Let me get back into the swing of things -- it takes a while, honest, plus my Google Reader is going to be on "1000+" unread for months now -- and I'll try to catch up on everything today.

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March 12, 2008

More Meta

Rest of this week is going to be light as I take time off and detox (by doing other freelance work, for some reason) in preparation for making fun of the final five or so weeks of the Pennsylvania primary. I'll probably end up posting more than I planned on anyway, though.

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March 11, 2008

... And I'm Back!

Something weird was preventing me from posting earlier, so I went to work on other things. Looks like things are back to normal now, etc., and we'll resume shortly.

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March 06, 2008

On Assignment

Hey, I'm out working on an article the rest of the day, for which I have to drive to the end of the earth itself for. If I get time I'll update some more tonight.

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March 02, 2008

See Your Editor Stutter Live And In-Person

For the third time, Penn's esteemed Kelly Writers House has invited me to speak in front of a crowd there at an event. Yes, your self-deprecating editor will be speaking at a respected institution of writing once again; for me to be doing my third reading at Writers House not even four years out of college is mind-blowing. (I am certain it was this post that drove them to invite me this time.)

Monday's Writers House event is called 7-Up on Rock, this year's installment of the annual 7-Up series. Seven writers read for seven minutes about seven different topics loosely related to a theme; there's a nice recap of last year's even here. I will be reading about the great sport of rock paper scissors. It will be the second time I've read about RPS at Writers House; the other reading I did was basically five minutes of me whining about not having a girlfriend. I've also managed to curse at both readings I've done so far; expect no less this time.

I thought I had posted this Friday, so hooray for late notices. If any RPS players or blog readers come out we can head to a bar sometime afterward; if any of you actually come out I will probably blush. 6 p.m., Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk.

The full release is after the jump.

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February 28, 2008

Here's The Deal

Oh, so a bunch of you IMed me, so I figured I should let youse all know: No, comments aren't gone forever. (Step off that ledge, 207!)

In short, things broke yesterday (due to Ron Paul spambots, I bet!) and I couldn't post; turning off comments fixed it! They will return soon, though I don't know when. But don't worry! I enjoy being told I suck just as much as you guys like telling me, so I am going to work to make it happen ASAP. Honest!

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Technical Difficulties!

Yes, the site was down yesterday due to tech stuff! Still having a few problems, but things will hopefully be back to normal as soon as possible and I can write about puppies and porn stars to my little heart's content.

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February 14, 2008

Primetime Will Do: Thanks, Milton

When I'm feeling down (especially when it's for no reason other than maybe "it's been dark out"), I think sometimes these jokes come off as sounding really angry. Forget that! And just in time, Milton went all Ron Paul on the court and claimed there's no such thing as the income tax. Regardless of the merits of Street's argument, it's already been deemed invalid by the courts. This doesn't bode well for poor Milt. But, hey, maybe he can chill with Wesley Snipes or something.

For a while the trial was getting boring. It was all tax code and fraud and nothing all that fun. Then, suddenly, Milton takes the stand and, WHAM!, hilarity. And people didn't think he deserved at least a City Council spot? It would have been incredible.

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January 23, 2008

Guiliani No Longer Cheesesteak Idol

From the Dept. of People I Am Jealous Of (be flattered!) comes the above video, done by PW's own Cassidy Hartmann, who I occasionally yell stupid jokes over the cubicle wall at. Cassidy is the Pennsylvania correspondent -- unfortunately, they apparently call it a "Street Team rep" -- for MTV's get-young-people-to-vote web thingy.

In this video, Rudy 9u11ani is airing a new campaign ad in Florida broadcast in Spanish even though he appeared at Geno's Steaks with Joey "Speak English" Vento. He's not happy about it, and it's totally worth watching the whole thing, ig only to see Joey Vento refrain from saying "That's bullshit" on camera.

She's going to be doing this through the election, and you should be able to follow her here. Huzzah.

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January 14, 2008

PWD Has The Day Off

It shall return tomorrow.

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January 07, 2008

Best Part Of Nutter's Inauguration So Far

... was the ovation for St. Joe's Prep. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say "best"? I meant "worst."

I ain't dead; I overslept! 'til 11. Impressive, eh? Updates are coming.

Update: See! I really like that "cutting our homicide rate by 30-50 percent" gets a standing ovation.

Update 2: Now a liveblog! After the jump.

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November 21, 2007

Read Error: News. Abort, Retry, Fail?

Ahh, yes, with that cutting edge reference from 1994 in the title, I'm telling you the news has apparently shut down in advance of the holiday. It left two of it's prongs on autopilot: travel and shopping. Those two stories will be the only news taking place until Monday or so (Sunday if we're lucky!) and so I figured it was time for me to call it a day.

Posts on Friday? Almost certainly, just so those in cubicles don't rise up in bloody revolt. (I'm doing my effort on the homefront for the war. Are you?)

Have a happy Football/Food Day tomorrow.

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November 15, 2007

Coin Collecting/Ron Paul/Horse Hating Will Do

The biggest topics of note on Philadelphia Will Do in recent days, apparently:

I finally went back and re-read the first piece I posted on this blog and I have no idea how I got to this point. (Hell, i don't even know why I write about the dollar coins at all; they're not really all that interesting and I think the best joke I made about them I realized I stole from Johnny.)

By the way, this is post number 6,176. Gah.

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November 14, 2007

Shameless Self-Promotion 11.14

There is a veritable onslaught of D-Mac writing in this week's Philadelphia Weekly. No, really!

• This year's holiday guide is all about cuteness, so naturally I wrote the little intro piece. If you need any justification for my qualifications to write about cuteness, simply check our my Flickr favorites.

• I also wrote about recent books about dogs, even the two new Marley & Me spinoffs. Yeah, I made fun of them. Oh, come on, what was I going to do?

• Continuing the dog-love theme -- gaww! -- I previewed the National Dog Show, this weekend at the Convention Center. Needless to say, I am super excited.

• Pop Rocks entry #4 here is about a comic Steven Wells found at Fat Jack's titled A Love Letter to Pennsylvania City: The Unauthorized Biography of John Street. I don't really need to say any more, do I?

• I also did my weekly Cultural Report Card feature, but it looks like it didn't make it online. So, uh, go pick up the paper, you lazy bums!

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October 31, 2007

Shameless Self-Promotion 10.31

Hey, lookatthat! It's another Daniel McQuade cover story!

This one's about another tangential-to-sports topic, Steve Odabashian, the guy who impersonates Eagles coach Andy Reid. According to my friend Rob over IM, "I thoroughly enjoyed it!" With praise like that, how could you ever not Reid it? (Sorry.)

If that's not convincing enough, there's a decent amount of cursing and the cover photo is fun. Huzzah.

Headset of the Class [PW]

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October 26, 2007

Baseball Legend Out Of Nowhere

When you consume as much media as I do, it's hard to get your brain to stop and slow down and actually let something weird in a story sink in. Pit bulls maul miniature horse donated to sick kid with brain cancer. Drivers in Indiana get stuck in freshly-poured concrete road. 33-year-old teacher has sex with 16-year-old mentally disabled student. All of these are ridiculous (and in some cases horrible; the drivers getting stuck in concrete is pretty awesome), but they don't really surprise me.

No, it takes ~~a long, drawn out introduction in a blog post~~ a really out-of-left field second paragraph to make my brain stop and slow down and say "Guh-wha?" For example:

MIDDLETOWN - A 21-year-old Middletown dad is standing trial in Bucks County court in Doylestown this week on charges he inflicted second-degree burns on his 5-week-old son by submerging the infant in scalding bath water.

David L. Cook of Poplar Street denies the charges. The baby's mother and her family are standing behind him, including the infant's maternal grandfather, baseball legend Ken Griffey Sr., who has attended Cook's trial daily.

My brain: "Oh, what an awful story, let's read on and--screeeeeeeeeeech. Shutting down..." Ahh, yes, Ken Griffey Senior. That's exactly who I expected to show up in the second paragraph of this article. It's going to take a while for my brain to reboot.

Dad tried for allegedly burning son [Bucks County Courier Times]
[Couple of those links via Fark]

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October 19, 2007

Let's Hope I Can Get Through The Weekend

In Arizona, Phoenix New Times owners Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin were arrested after publishing a story detailing grand jury information concerning a subpoena the paper received asking for the IP addresses and related information of every visitor to the paper's website since 2004. The reason? Well, the New Times criticized of County Attorney Andrew Thomas' political ally, noted douchebag/attention whore Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

In Florida, three Orlando Weekly advertising employees were arrested for aiding and abetting prostitution.

I can only hope I can return Monday without being arrested for something related to my work at Philadelphia Weekly. But I must admit, I'm a bit worried. Who will attempt to take me out? Mark B. Cohen? Zombie Barbaro? The Scranton Toilet Curser? We can only wait and see.

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October 16, 2007

There's A Sucker Born Every Minute

I was attacked by a come-to-life Cardiff Giant -- today is the anniversary of its "discovery," no lie! -- while in Cooperstown and therefore am a little behind. Catching up begins now.

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October 15, 2007

Philadelphia Loses In Toronto Again

Although I hope I've conditioned all of you to never trust anything I say on this site, I really was in Toronto for the World Rock Paper Scissors championships this weekend. Really, I was! It was a good thing, though, I was in Wave 2 of the first round, since I was eliminated without even winning a point. It was the 1993 World Series all over again, only somehow worse.

I'm heading to Cooperstown today -- not for the Baseball Hall of Fame, though, I'm going to go check out the Cardiff Giant¹ -- but I do have a couple things to post, so keep F5-ing all day. I have a ton of really good Canadian -re jokes.

¹ This is a joke. Or is it?

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October 12, 2007