The story of the Jeweler’s Row peeping tom never really took off, perhaps because it didn’t have hilarious characters like a guy in a pimp hat. Anyway, NBC 10 finally made this a story worth commenting on when Deanna Durante somehow made him crash into a wall. He seems to walk into the wall himself and crash into Durante; it’s clearly some sort of Jedi mind trick.
After the collision, Benjamin Sorkin hilariously asks Durante what’s wrong with her and she then immediately throws the red flag and calls for instant replay.
Last night as the Pittsburgh Steelers managed to defeat the mighty Bengals, the NFL Network showed an interview of Terrell Owens by noted journalist Deion Sanders. And T.O. was wearing a shirt with an Eagle on it! Anybody else I’d chalk it up to coincidence, but there is no way it was not a direct, intentional move by Terrell Owens. We’ve been through this before, no?
Snow! We had a couple flurries before, but right! now! we are finally getting out first snowfall of the winter. The grown-up in me likes the thought of an easy morning post for the blog, and the kid in me likes the thought of getting off from school and playing Madden ‘93 all day.
The graphics up above from wxcaster.com show the snowfall potential for the NAM, WRF, and GFS computer forecasts. The resolution on the NAM and WRF is higher and seems to have a decent handle on how much may fall despite the location differences among all three models.
This is what I sound like when I talk about baseball statistics, I can only assume. I think I have a WRF file in my system directory.
Ronnie Polaneczky: “The healthy heart of a community - the bricks-and-mortar embodiment of its best, most hopeful and egalitarian self. Close a library and you still a neighborhood’s beating heart.” What? Are you going to tell me the beating heart of Logan Circle is the Central Library and not the giant heart in the Franklin Institute?
Some judges think we should not elevate their deaths above “the rest of us,” those without the bulletproof vests and the shields. Some citizens think that color excuses criminality, or that poverty is an explanation for antisocial behavior, or that grief is misplaced for those who willingly enter a dangerous profession.
These sentiments are heard in the streets, seen in the courtrooms, read on the letters page.
But they are wrong. Decent people understand it. The rest are irrelevant.
When using a strawman argument, you’re allowed to tear it down a little better than, “Well that’s wrong BECAUSE I SAID SO!”
The team announced Thursday that second baseman Chase Utley will need right hip surgery that potentially could keep him out until the first week of June.
Utley consistently downplayed speculation about his bad hip during the second half of the postseason. But the Phillies revealed Thursday that since the World Series, he has had the hip evaluated by Phillies team physician Michael Ciccotti, of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital’s Rothman Institute, and by Dr. Bryan Kelly, of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Both doctors recommended that Utley undergo surgery on his right hip. That procedure, described by the club as an “arthroscopic evaluation with treatment of any labral or bony injury,” will take place next week.
Ooh, I am so mad at Jefferson for telling Utley to have surgery without thinking of the Phillies first! Or maybe this will make into a superplayer when he comes back, an adult Rookie of the Year if you will.
Jill Porter: It’s sad, enough police officers have died recently that we know exactly what the local media is going to write every single time and we don’t have to read it. So this is one of those things.
Elmer Smith: Hey, more fun time news! Carol Campbell died yesterday. Geeze, columnists, can’t you write about something that’s not a total bummer so I have something to mock here? Man, think about me sometimes.
John Baer: Oh, goodie, noted drug warrior Tom Corbett could be governor in 2010.
Michael Smerconish: And, naturally, here’s Michael Smerconish writing about the Flyers, and playing hockey growing up and hour a thousand people paid a couple bucks to see the Stanley Cup. Right.
Ladies and gentlemen, rejoice! The one thing Philadelphia needs more than anything — another lifestyle magazine — is finally coming to town! And (even better) this one is owned by the Inquirer!
The Philadelphia Inquirer will launch a glossy lifestyle magazine insert that will appear six times a year, the newspaper’s owner said Wednesday.
The magazine, which will be known as “I,” will launch Thursday and be distributed free with newspapers to 115,000 households and newsstands in affluent areas. Sandra M. Clarke, now arts-and-features editor at the Inquirer, will serve as editor of the publication.
The publication will cover fashion, home décor, food and dining, entertainment and social events. Stories in the 56-page debut issue will include interviews with restaurateur Stephen Starr and an inside look at Eagles’ tackle Jon Runyan’s New Jersey home.
If you were to ask me to come up with the two most cliched local lifestyle magazine features, I would look at you funny. And, anyway, why would you need me to: I could not come up with anything better than “Stephen Starr interview and “tour of Jon Runyan’s home.” What, no Gervase interview?!
But no matter. Now the real fun begins: What sections of the city will get the insert? Just Center City and the rest is out on the Main Line? Help me out here, kids, drop me a line if you do or don’t see I in the Inquirer at your newsstand. (I have to imagine the percentage of readers who get the Inky delivered is “my parents,” but you can tell me about that, too.)
Philly.com has celebrated the launch of I with a photo gallery, as is its wont.
The eighth annual competitiveness report from the Beacon Hill Institute, a free-market think tank based at Suffolk University in Boston, ranked Pennsylvania 39th out of the 50 U.S. states and New Jersey 42nd. Delaware was ranked 19th.
Massachusetts came in at the top of the list, while Mississippi was 50th.
Researchers preparing the study looked at areas such as security, government and fiscal policy, environmental policy, human resources, technology and “business incubation.”
Oh no what will we do Pennsylvania has ranked low in a survey?! It turns out, though, the state scored well in “technology.” So, um, yeah, we have that going for us.
Snow! We had a couple flurries before, but right! now! we are finally getting out first snowfall of the winter. The grown-up in me likes the thought of an easy morning post for the blog, and the kid in me likes the thought of getting off from school and playing Madden ‘93 all day.
Hey, so here’s a good way to start the next Phillies season: 
