Pet Food Recall Finally Affects Cute Wittle Puppies

Gaaaaw. Who’s a cute little seven puppies? Now these are some dogs in the pet food recall I can get sad about. Not like those ugly effing pugs and their defenders who want me to die!

Salmonella Scare Prompts Another Pet Food Recall [KYW 1060]
March 19: Local Angles To National Story

Philadelphia Will Do, Even More Watered Down

As you may have read elsewhere, it appears Philadelphia Weekly is for sale. In case you can’t tell by the PW logo at left, the countless links to Philadelphia Weekly and the domain “philadelphiaweekly” in the URL, this blog is a part of Philadelphia Weekly.

We — and by “we” I mean “I” — don’t know much about any potential sale, as the guys on the other side of the office have apparently kept everyone hush-hush about the whole situation. I pretty much know as much about the potential buyers as you do. Maybe Ron Burkle will buy the paper! (Remember him?) Maybe the Inquirer and Daily News unions will chip in to buy ol’ P-Dub? How about you? Do you have money? Do you want to own a newspaper?

The first thought that popped into my head was, of course: New Times. (The chain renamed itself after buying the Village Voice; it’s now called Village Voice Media.) This is a newspaper chain whose executive editor told The Phoenix: “I expect original reporting[,] not merely some lazy form of print blogging.” This gives me some hope; if he doesn’t want lazy blogging in print, maybe he wants lazy online blogging. And it takes hard work to get this lazy. You can’t just plug in anybody for laziness like this.

Then, this morning, there was this bombshell from Dan Gross (after the jump):

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About The Best Book Jacket Possible

Yep. If only the book were photos of puppies and not tales about stupid owners and their stupid dogs. Still: Aww.

Second Chances: Inspiring Stories of Dog Adoption [Amazon]

Puppy! Girl! Yay! Et Cetera!

Suburban alt-weekly-ish paper Philly EDGE (get it?) has come up with what could be a smart way to get people to pick up the paper: Putting cute girls on the cover. (Slaps forehead, goes “Ohhhh!”)

This week, the cover girl is none other than Real Worlder and Bucks County resident Svetlana Shusterman. Here’s one of the photos:

Yes, she’s holding a puppy. The only thing that would make me like this photo more is if she had on an Eagles hat, too. And if she was playing Tecmo Bowl or something.

Svetlana Shusterman from The Real World: Key West [Philly EDGE]

Nothing To Say But… “Puppy!”

You have to watch until the part where he drops the frisbee off the pillow. It’s adorable. If you can watch this and not go “Aww,” you, sir or madam, must be a sadist. Or work for Phillymag. Not that they’re mutually exclusive categories. Yeah, yeah.

A Modest Proposal To Save SEPTA

Install the new edition — squeal! — of the Puppy Mover Monorail!

Awwwwww! What’s that? How would this save SEPTA? Beats me. But it’d up SEPTA’s cuteness factor by about a billion percent, I know that.

Monorail Modeling - Puppy Mover Monorail [The Monorail Society via Cute Overload]

Sunshine! News! Pandas!

Yesterday, I thought we all needed a pick-me-up (of puppies, natch). Today, no such pick-me-up is needed. There is news (giving me something to write about this afternoon), there is sunshine, there is warmth. And, most importantly, there is this:

I think even Phillymag won’t get annoyed if I do this here: Awwwwwwww… yay!

I can never get NBC 10’s videos to work. Here’s a Reuters everywhere-friendly version here.

Pandas play in snow [IBS/NBC 10]
Panda playground [Reuters]
Yesterday: This is kind of what I want to do right now