Leftovers: Goodbye, Olympic Bid

• Breaking: Philly dropped from Olympic contention. Shocker, we know. Houston also dropped. Details TK. Update: Here are the aforementioned details from KYW 1060 and the Inky.

• Philly Future says that if they’re sold, they’ll be sharing the profits with you, the user! They also say “Driving an Hyundai like myself bub?” Ahh, yes, I can see the venture capitalists lining up to buy Philly Future any day now, and with Karl sharing the dough, Her Alter Ego will have enough bolding and capital letters to last a lifetime. [Philly Future]

• The New York Times loves City Hall! Add it to the list of things that the NYT hearts about Philly — that’s hipsters, the Liberty Bell, the Art Museum, Pat’s Steaks (probably), etc. — STAT! (Related: A very angry comment on Phillyist.) [NYT]

• The head of the prison guards’ union agrees with the lawsuit filed that claims poor conditions in Philly’s jails. So you know it’s bad. [Metro]

• Oh, and that stripper with the human hand in a jar? She skipped her court date today. Why are we (and the Daily News, and 50 other local blogs) writing about this even though it’s not really anywhere near Philly? Oh, right: She’s a stripper with a human hand in a jar. [AP/Philly.com]

Stripper’s A Regular Warhol, Dahmer

An exotic dancer in New Jersey — who, naturally, does her stripping at a nude juice bar — has been arrested after police found a hand in a mason jar and six human skulls in her home.

Police went to her house to investigate a suicide attempt Friday. They found no suicide victim, but they did find the hand and skulls, and arrested Linda Kay for “improper disposition of human remains.”

She, however, says her collection of skulls and the hand — which she calls “Freddie” — is simply her strange taste in artwork. Her mother said she got the skulls from a mail order catalog or over the Internet. (Amazon.com is branching out!)

The laywer for Hott 22, the juice bar she strips at, defended her art collection:

“Hott 22 does not knowingly hire mass murderers.”

[Ira] Weiner said Kay is “artistic, but not vicious. I believe that’s why she collected those items. Other people might take issue with her tastes. I know I do.

“But look at Andy Warhol. He painted soup cans.”

Warhol painted hands in mason jars, too. One of his lesser-known works.

She got a hand [Daily News]