First borough

Philadelphia blogger The West End went up to New York this weekend, and spotted the following billboard just a few blocks from Times Square:

Any joke that could possibly be made about this ad has already been done, I’m sure, so I’ll just note it and move on.

It’s up to you [The West End]

Quickies: First person perspective

• Sound the sirens! First person journalism in the Inquirer! (This is when we, like 6 ABC, use exclamation points.) It’s a reporter’s tale of his encounters with Roger Keith Coleman, who was executed in 1992 for raping his wife’s 19-year-old sister and slashing her throat. And it’s good, which means there probably won’t be another such front page first-person piece until 2011. [Inky]

• Spread the Benergy! (This word is a frontrunner for “Word of the Year 2006″ already.) Channel 12 asks Philadelphians for musings on Franklin in About Benjamin (cute, I get it) tomorrow night at 9 p.m. [Inky]

• New Phillies GM Pat Gillick speaks at a Police Athletic League luncheon, and actually talks about outfielder Jason Michaels, who’s entering a first time offender program after punching a cop in Old City over the summer. Well, he’s not afraid to shy away from things, I guess. No way the last guy would have mentioned him. [KYW 1060]

• The Pennsylvania Game Commission recommended banning the totally awesome (but possibly inhumane, so maybe not) lacrosse stick-like dart thrower, the atlatl, which is about 8,000 years old. Hunters will still be able to totally vaporize deer with a variety of newer weapons. [Inky]

Quickies: Enter the Wu-Tang

• As much as I dug this Wu-Tang dance article in the Daily News today, what was even better was the sidebar speculating where the dance came from: “The Wu-Tang Clan borrowed its name from this fighting style, and the rap group has gone as far as dubbing Staten Island ‘Shaolin,’ a mythical breeding ground for kung-fu masters.” [DN]

• I’m totally using this condoms filled with flour defense one day. Maybe for like a parking ticket or something. [Inky]

• Your daily dose of Benergy, this time sports related. [DN]

• The Majestic Diner (formerly the Ritz, formerly the U.S. 1 diner) on the Boulevard in Northeast Philly? You can have it for a price. And then you can move it to whereever you want to. No, really. [Citypaper]

Blogicized: Benergy! Get into it!

• A recap and a look ahead at everything building related in our fair city. If there’s a Planet Hollywood (with slots!) at Penn’s Landing I bet the city has its “Next Great American City” title revoked. [phillyskyline]

• What better way to celebrate this week of slow news than with a look at Kevin Federline-Spears’ personal home page? Don’t even bother answering; there is no better way. [TinaPoPo and Friends]

• Somehow, that whole Sony fake graffiti marketing thing has turned into a debate about graffiti glorifying murderers. I can settle this: We paint over everything with drawings of Ben Franklin! See: Everyone can agree with that. [Classical Values]

• Councilman Wilson Goode says goodbye to Young Philly Politics. Hey, a politician can only blog for so long. [Young Philly Politics]