Rendell Helps Kid Get Debate Ticket, Kinda

Drexel’s newspaper, The Triangle, has created a special blog just for tonight’s Drexel Democratic Debate (3D). The Blogspot blog has a number of stories posted already, including a story headlined “Chris Matthews talks to Drexel students.” (The Chris Matthews?)

It also has the story of some freshman who put on a sign saying he wanted to go to the debate.

And, then he passed Ed Rendell, who was looking for a photo op or something. “Just remind me that you are the guy with the sign- I’ll remember,” the blog quotes Rendell telling Drexel freshman Tyler Piecara.

But, uh, it doesn’t seem like Ed did anything, since apparently the dean of students is getting Piecara and four of his friends in to the debate. Rendell will probably not even be at the debate, as he’ll be off hosting an Eagles debate show at Chickie’s and Pete’s.

Chris Matthews talks to Drexel Students [Drexel Debate]
Freshman gets creative, gets debate ticket [Drexel Debate]
[via Daily Examiner]

WWE Wrestler Wows Ivy League Kids

About a hundred World Wresting Entertainment fans gathered to see Chris Jericho - wrestler turned actor, television personality, radio host, rock star and now author - at a book-signing appearance for his first book, A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex.

According to Jericho, the book is a “coming-of-age story” depicting how he “got to the pot of gold, with wrestling as a backdrop.” [...] “The Sexy Beast,” as Jericho is known, took a hiatus from wrestling beginning in 2004 after a loss to fellow WWE wrestler John Cena.

Rumors of a possible comeback spread throughout the line of fans, but Jericho was reluctant to respond to questions about it.

Although fans had little to say about Jericho’s latest TV movie, Android Apocalypse, they said they enjoyed his literary debut.

Ahh, yes, literary giant Chris Jericho speaks at the Penn Bookstore. Was there a screening of Android Apocalypse to coincide with his book signing? That film is from 2006, so the writer was looking up things to add to the article on IMDb. Or he somehow saw Android Apocalypse last year.

WWE star draws crowd at Penn Bookstore [DP]

Philly.com Put Up Its Decorations Late This Year

Come on, guys. You waiting until October 30 to put up your Halloween decorations? The animated logo is a nice touch, though.

You won’t see this from the New York Times.

Philly.com

Pennsylvania Hotbed Of The Paranormal

It isn’t just Bigfoot who’s been spotted in Pennsylvania. Now NASA has agreed to search for files related to a “fireball” that crashed near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, in 1965.

On Dec. 9 of that year, people in North America saw a fireball cross the sky. It crashed near a town about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and the Air Force showed up and hauled a Volkswagen-sized object away from the site and told everybody not to worry about it, everything was under control.

As you might have guessed, such secrecy by the government only leads to more conspiracy theories and speculation that it’s aliens or thetans or whatever. NASA complements this nicely by losing all the records related to the crash and claiming it was a Russian satellite, changing the story from years earlier.

NASA will now search for those lost records and tell us that it was actually a cow dropped from a helicopter or something.

NASA Will Re-Open Kecksburg UFO Files [Wired Science]
Kecksburg UFO Incident [Wikipedia]
Yesterday: Bigfoot Enthusiast Says Photo Is Bigfoot

A Vote For Nutter Is A Vote Against, Uh, Bush?

Above, the new ad for Michael Nutter, who despite a nearly 75 percent lead in the polls feels he should run some ads. And how to get lethargic Philadelphians out to the polls on Tuesday? Tell ‘em if they stay home, the terrorists (or at least Bush and Cheney) win!

Excellent graphics on the night to day transition. I wonder what Nutter’s stance is on Daylight Saving Time.

Temple Improves To Worse Than Last

The [Temple] men’s cross country team placed 11th at the Atlantic Ten Conference Championships Saturday at Belmont Plateau, recording a program best.

Good job, Owls! Way to place 11th in the Atlantic 10.

Incidentally, the women’s team finished 13th. There are apparently like 70 teams in the A-10.

Runners dismayed by weather; times [Temple News]

Abridged ‘Daily News’ Columnists

Elmer Smith: Hey, the government spent $1.3 billion and actually put it to good use.

Sandra Shea: Hey, come to the riverfront planning meeting so developers can probably ignore you.

Fatimah Ali: “But plenty of taxpayers like me are excited about the changing tides. And we’re pinning our hopes on electing this visionary.” Yeah, all the taxpayers are excited!

Ronnie Polaneczky: Hey, I ran in that race about 10 years ago. Whee!

Hack Heaven

Geeze, I mean, I don’t think he’s that bad of a designer. Oh.

Hack to end term as dean of Design School [Daily Pennsylvanian]

Leftovers: Nutter, Theft And Mongo

• Guess what? Michael Nutter knows he’s going to win the election! That’s right, folks, the smart guy running for mayor isn’t a total moron and knows he was crowned mayor back on May 15. [Heard in the Hall]

• Penn kids are leaving their stuff unattended in the library and, surprise, people are stealing it. Wow, people, let alone college kids or always-trustworthy university employees, steal things? [Daily Pennsylvanian]

• Some dude named Mongo is angry about a new truck weight limit in Delran. I am sure the township will listen well to Mongo. [Camden Courier-Post]

• Somebody tell Bob Schieffer if you need two paragraphs to overexplain the joke in your lead, you might want to scrap it and try a new line. [CBS News]

Business Uses Machine To Help With Efficiency

Now that they’ve created a robot that can fill prescriptions without mistakes, it is only a matter of time before the perfect robot is created and humans become slaves to the master robot race. Thanks a lot, Underwood-Memorial Hospital.

Pharmacy robot immune to error [Camden Courier-Post]