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Looks like Mark B. Cohen isn’t the only person who calls my boss to complain about jokes I make. But Cohen, to his credit, understands what I do here.
A fella by the name of Dennis left a message for my boss in response to this throwaway post about dead horses I did yesterday. He actually has more in common with Ron Paul’s fans than he does with Rep. Cohen.
I happened to stumble upon Philadelphia Weekly, and I found something written by a gentleman by the name of Daniel McQuade… This gentleman, and I use that term loosely, because I highly doubt he’s a man, says: [here he quotes me]
So I’m curious as to why Philadelphia Weekly is promoting cruelty to animals. And I’m gonna go down and contact every company that’s advertising on your site and ask them the same question as to why they’re advertising with a company that promotes cruelty to animals.
If I could get some answers, that would be great. I don’t understand if this guy’s just an idiot, if he’s a drug addict, maybe he’s never gotten laid in his life, I don’t know. But whoever things that harming animals is something that deserves to be rewarded is mind-bloggling to me. it reflects very poorly on your company institution. I assume you want to be a real newspaper or publishing company, but man oh man, that doesn’t look good.
Have fun dealing with this guy, uwishunu!
Update: Barbaro fans have entered the fray!
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dmac | 1:08 PM | 14 Comments
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May
10
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The above was commissioned by Casino Free Philadelphia, the group protesting casinos that — since the question was bumped off the ballot — will be holding its own vote on May 15 asking Philadelphians if they want casinos in the city. (Gee, I wonder who’s going to win the vote.)
The video arrived with a press release from CFP, titled: “CASINO-FREE PHILA USES HUMOR TO HIT BACK AT SUGARHOUSE.” This, of course, prepared me that no humor would be involved in hitting back at SugarHouse. Ha ha! He has a combover! And he’s gambling in a church! I get it!
None of this stopped the release from touting its huge gains among the bloggerati:
Numerous bloggers have supported the casino referendum, including Chris Bowers of myDD.com, Philebrity, and YPP bloggers. Bloggers and online journalists like PhillyIsFunny have used heavy (and sometimes crude) satire to talk about casinos, which such titles as “Council Approves Slots Referendum, Rendell Pees Self” or Philebrity’s “When Cockblocking Goes Wrong: Street Gets His Veto Veto’ed!”
The casinos, confused by this press release, apparently decided they needed to respond with an even lamer idea of their own, i.e. a pro-casino rally yesterday. Yes, a bunch of union workers and guys in suits put aside their differences and banded together to rally for casinos to be built in Philadelphia in what one observer (me) called “the saddest protest ever.”
Coming soon, “older Pennsylvanians” will be protesting for a new lottery instant game featuring Gus the Groundhog, as this will allow them to reap even more benefits from the numbers.
Full Casino Free Philadelphia release after the jump.
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dmac | 2:25 PM | 4 Comments
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Apr
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In case you didn’t notice it, former mayoral candidate Sam Katz wasn’t all that happy with my post about his mayor’s race blog for Phillymag’s website. Apparently, I didn’t take his blog seriously enough or something. Here’s what he wrote:
Sorry you don’t like the blog but that’s why there are plenty of choices for you to post your thoughts on. Notwithstanding your historical re-write, my perennial runs were in 1991, 1999 and 2003. Dilworth left office in 1962 (I was 13). In any case, I will try to keep your suggestions for more insightful analysis in mind though, I suspect, you are not one whose mind is open to insight. As for wishing I didn’t know anything about blogs, rest assured that won’t be the case. I can live with the critics. Can you?
I usually don’t respond to critics in the comments, because they’re usually either (1) right or (2) Barbaro/pet lovers threatening to kill me. Also, there’s usually more important things to do, like play Final Fantasy. But after confirming it was actually Sam Katz — I was kind of hoping for a Katz impersonator myself1 — I decided to respond. Additionally, I added some explanations in footnotes at the bottom of the post in case Sam Katz decides to read my blog again.2
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dmac | 3:10 PM | 8 Comments
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May
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 Every once in a while I single out some local (or national) story as the Overwritten Lead of the Moment, which is sort of a nice way of saying “the bad lead of the moment.” (Well, no. Going back through the archives, some of them are more weird or silly than bad. But most of them are bad.)
Now, I’m not one to shy away from a bad lead. Hell, I’ve written a ton of them myself. (I am a little embarassed at this one, though. But it was like the sixth story I ever wrote.) And I love overwritten leads. They turn otherwise perfectly normal stories into unintentionally funny goldmines.
Unfortunately, the contest is now over. We will never see a lead as good as this again, by Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen:
First, let me state my credentials: I am a funny guy. This is well known in certain circles, which is why, even back in elementary school, I was sometimes asked by the teacher to “say something funny” — as if the deed could be done on demand. This, anyway, is my standing for stating that Stephen Colbert was not funny at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
I had a long-ish conversation the other day about the whole Stephen Colbert-at-the-White House Correspondents dinner, and my feeling was that he was a liberal comedian hired to make jokes, and he did such at the dinner. I thought it was pretty funny (not gut-busting funny, but not bad) and I thought it was weird that some media outlets didn’t mention it in their recaps of the event (not conspiracy weird, more baffling I guess) and I thought it was a great PR move for him. And I also thought that last sentence might’ve been a run-on.
I don’t really think it was “courageous” per se, but I suppose it had some balls, and the whole “Thank You Stephen Colbert” petition thing is a little weird, yadda yadda yadda.
But now, his speech is directly responsible for this lead, and I must say: Stephen Colbert is an American hero. Thank you, Stephen Colbert.
So not Funny [Washington Post via Wonkette]
Koch paces W. X-C at districts [Daily Pennsylvanian]
Archives: Overwritten Lead of the Moment
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dmac | 1:10 PM | 1 Comment
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