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Everyone’s favorite local media conglomerate, Comcast, has purchased email newsletter Daily Candy for a whopping $125 million. Who said the economy was going to slow down the acquisition parade?

Comcast EVP Sam Schwartz said Daily Candy has “an extremely loyal base of fashion and lifestyle-conscious women. The company pioneered the ad-supported e-mail model and has built an industry-leading sales team.” A friend writes that it also has about 2.5 million subscribers, which means Comcast paid about $50 per user — an extremely high sum.

But, hey, when you the opportunity to acquire a captive (or loyal, whatever) audience of women obsessed with stickers and jellybeans or whatever it is Daily Candy writes about, does money really matter?

Comcast Buys Daily Candy for $125M [Philadelphia Biz Journal]

Counting Down To Glock Day

Can you feel it? That’s the onset of Glock Day Fever, now only two days away!

The event at the Philadelphia Archery & Gun Club (note: that link takes you back to 1997) has free food and drinks, free promo items, a $79 membership special and discounts on glocks.

As Metro noted yesterday in a cover story (!) about Glock Day, if you come in and buy a gun at the South Philly gun club, you get a free safety lesson. CeaseFirePA isn’t even really all that pissed off at the event. (That’s pretty solid marketing, though: Just hearing the words “Glock Day” makes me want to pop a few rounds. Safely, of course, at a shooting range.)

It wasn’t just the Green Swede that wrote about Glock Day. Daily Candy Philadelphia, which its press kit says features “an affluent, influential female audience,” also inexplicably wrote about Glock Day, calling the Glock “Philly’s gun of choice.”

Actually, that should be a deterrent to criminals. The only thing more powerful than an affluent, influential female is an affluent, influential female with a gun.

Join the club, win a Glock [Metro]
What to do this weekend [Daily Candy Philadelphia via Doree]
Archives: Glock Day

Escalators A Threat To Our Nation’s Breasts

As part of Philadelphia Will Do’s commitment to bringing you the latest in breast news (as well continuing to have an “obsession with sex,” as Phillymag put it), I present to you the intro to today’s Daily Candy newsletter:

If you’re a woman, odds are you’ve got some breast issues. ¶ You may love them, you may hate them, you may get them caught in escalators and car doors.

Okay, car doors… maybe. (An endowed friend has told me, “Umm, no.”) But escalators? How would that even work? You’d have to fall and then have them be caught under the teeth (or whatever) at the top of bottom. And that’d be, like, a really painful, bloody event. So if that happened a lot you’d think it’d be a national crisis with Dateline specials and protests and maybe even a national task force.

Clearly, I’m thinking about this too much. But, hey, I gotta keep up the image.

Bra Miracle [Daily Candy]

Strangers With Candy

Today brings the Philadelphia launch of Daily Candy, the “popular gal-about-town” daily newsletter, with the new local edition edited by Meredith Lindemon.

Even though it’s geared toward people without a y chromosome, I took a look at today’s edition, which was about Pure Bliss, the spa on Walnut.

As I said, not really aimed at the demographic of the editor of this site. I did, however, kind of like this note at the bottom of the email:

That’s all well and good, but, come on: This is Philadelphia. Pay for play is a way of life.

Quit in a Capsule [Daily Candy]
Putting Phila.’s chic onto a trendy site [Inky]

Blogicized: Flyers Are Boiling Hot

• Who better to record an song for the Philadelphia Flyers than a band called The Boils? Apparently, The Missing Teeth were all booked. [The 700 Level]

• Leave your records at home kiddies, as now you can listen to what all the hipsters are listening to every week, courtesy of Joey Sweeney. [Philebrity]

• John Dougherty loves him some Phillymag, and he’s currently reading Michael Smerconish’s new book. Was that sound just his mayoral chances taking a hit? [The Gospel According To Wook]

• What this city needs is some sort of newsletter than can let us know just where to shop and eat and everything else. I just don’t know what to do without an email newsletter! Where could we possibly get one? [Daily Candy]