A (Blurry) Message To All Philadelphians

There’s an art project going on all month called Show Someone How You Feel About Something, where kids draw something to show how they feel about something. (Duh.) The project takes place at Clark Park on Saturdays and A-Space on Sundays and Mondays.

SEPTA Watch points out one bitching about SEPTA, always a fun pastime of any adult or child. But I happened to be at A-Space last night to talk with the Philly NORML guys and spotted a bunch of them on the walls.

There was one with drawings of condoms, telling Mayor Nutter to allow ‘em in Philly schools, a couple addressed to The Pope and one saying Bush should be impeached, saying kings have been beheaded for less. And then there was this one, addressed to Lynne Abraham. I snapped a photo with my camera phone.

Aw, hell. It came out all blurry. Well, I started the post, I might as well finish it. (This is the kind of award-nominated dedication you can expect from Philadelphia Will Do.) Anyway, if you look closely, you might be able to see what it says: Dogs, not semi-automatic weapons. Why didn’t we all think of that before?

Ron Paul: Greatest American Ever?

Little inside secret how this business works: Somebody sends out a blast email or Myspace to all the people in the entire world and all the regularly-updated Philly blogs see it and we all post it. If it’s not Milton Street knocking over a state store, sometimes I just don’t update it even if it’s a good story. (Here’s an exception.)

By inside secret, of course, I mean common sense; yes, this is why everyone’s going to have to start doing more of their own reporting or telling the best lame jokes and posting puppies. (Dibs on the last one.) Some fun changes are coming and that is why things have been somewhat slower, blah blah blah; yes, I will update my links list.

Anyway, Philebrity posted Down The Shore With Jen before I did a while back, and so I didn’t. (I knew they were going to beat me to it, too.) And I read it again today and it looks fun and it’s a book about the Jersey shore written by a young person in Collingswood. Yeah, it’s a guidebook, but, uh, how useful. Here’s an Amazon pre-order link. And it’s fun and well-reported and it’s the Jersey shore. “This is a great way to start your Sunday,” Jen Miller writes. Oh, look, it’s tied all together.

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Shibe Park, 1914

This is apparently Shibe Park during the 1914 World Series, when A’s lost to the Boston Braves. They didn’t win any games in the playoffs, just like the Phillies this year! Pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training Feb. 13! (”Spring” training.) We don’t have the Athletics anymore, but the Phillies will do for now. They could be good!

Out of the ballpark: 1914 [Shorpy]

On The First Day Of Hunting Season, The Hunter Becomes The Hunted

Yesterday was the first day of hunting season in Pennsylvania, which means schoolchildren all across the state (except for the Philadelphia area) had off to go hunt bucks or whatever. (This is probably how that deer got stuck in the warehouse ended up in there; he was trying to run away from being killed.)

Well, yesterday wasn’t all rainbows and dead deer. It turns out that some people didn’t want to hunt deer themselves and instead robbed a man of his deer.

Yes, three men walked up to Meadville’s Robert Hanna — still on his tree stand after bagging a deer Monday afternoon — when three men with rifles came up to him and attacked him for his deer carcass.

“I’m really, really upset about the whole ordeal,” Hanna said. “(It’s) over a dumb deer. If they wanted it so bad I would have said, ‘Take it.’” Police don’t have any suspects, but my hunch is it’s a bunch of lazy, lazy hunters.

Armed Thieves Steal Deer from Penna. Hunter [KYW 1060]
Earlier today: Wayward Deer Causes Havoc In Western Pa.