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Johnny Doc’s Heart Is Just Fine, Thanks

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Okay, now that Vince Fumo apparently going to be okay, we can begin speculating: Does the heart attack make him look weak? No no, wait, let’s hold off; Johnny Doc has put off his campaign announcement at the South Philly playground.

For Immediate Release

Contact: Brian Hickey 215-400-xxxx

DOUGHERTY FOR SENATE CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES POSTPONEMENT OF LAUNCH EVENT OUT OF RESPECT TO SENATOR FUMO’S CRITICAL HEALTH CONDITION

PHILADELPHIA, PA (March 3, 2008) — The campaign of John Dougherty, Democratic candidate for the Philadelphia’s First District Senate seat, has announced the postponement of its Tuesday, March 4th launch event at the Edward O’Malley (EOM) Recreation Center in South Philadelphia out of respect to the critical health condition of incumbent Senator Vince Fumo, who suffered a heart attack Sunday night, and his family.

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Angry Ex-Journalist

By now you may have seen the site Angry Journalist — Is that a hacked Wordpress install? Pretty clever if so! — where anonymous journalists rant about why they hate journalism.

While things aren’t exactly going all that smoothly in the industry right now, journalists have been complaining since Johan Gutenberg said, “Fluch! Bewegliche gedruckte Art ist ein Ausfall.” (According to Babelfish, “Damn! Movable printed type is a failure.” I translated that from English, so the German translation is no doubt wrong.)

Anyway, a co-worker of mine (thanks, Alli!) came across a possible recent anonymous post that really fits well with a certain former editor of a local alternative weekly.

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Oh, now, come on, Hickey! I can’t speak for everybody, but I never trusted you — to soil our youth by mocking a man trying to show them the evils of 4:20… becoming Johnny Doc’s campaign manager was really your only option.

Update, 2/29: Aw, Hickey says it wasn’t him. Which is what I knew, which is why I didn’t ask, because then I’d have to make a new joke. If you need me, I’ll be circling around a dying man somewhere in Arizona.