Clear Your Calendar Fri. Night

I have to say, this is the best flier for a party I’ve ever seen. The media advisory is also pretty smokin’ (emphasis mine):

CollegeMansion.com, the fastest growing college lifestyle destination, will host eight parties throughout the next two months to find Philadelphia’s 52 hottest girls. These exclusive parties will be held at the trendiest bars in the city. Ladies from the Greater Philadelphia area will be selected to participate in an active voting contest to determine Philly’s hottest 52 girls. Once chosen, the final 52 girls will be invited to an exclusive photo shoot party and the first ever Official Philly 52 deck of Playing Cards will be distributed to the hottest bars, restaurants and retail stores in the area.

I believe this jawn is for for the kind of people on Party Monsters: Cabo, no? Anyway, if you need to find me Friday, you know where to go.

Update: A friend writes in: “Did you really write ‘jawn’??? I am disappointed.” Apologies, but I felt it fitting for the party. First time I’ve used it since seventh grade or so, when it was probably every third word I said.

Philadelphia To Be One Giant Rave

Yesterday, the Northeast Times endorsed Michael Nutter, certainly furthering Young Philly Politics’ members fears of media cabal forcing all the newspapers in the city to endorse Nutter. (This happened. And, at our last monthly media cabal meeting, I won the breaststroke through the vault of gold doubloons.)

Oh, man! The City Paper endorsed him, too! Mike Nutter fever: CATCH IT! (They also cut out the candidates heads and made a PDF summarizing their stances and such. Bastards! I was going to do that, but make stupid jokes. Eh, their thing seems to be serious — and, I can admit it, good — so I suppose I can still do it as long as mine’s stupid and features Milton Street. The CP’s cover also features Mike Nutter holding a printout of the cover. Whoa, meta.)

The Northeast Times‘ endorsement even warranted a Michael Nutter press release. (And, yes, Nutter’s press release — speaking of things I can admit are good, The Next Mayor’s press release archive — about the paper’s endorsement noted it was the largest weekly paper in Philadelphia and perhaps in all of Pennsylvania. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.)

The endorsement, which did mention Queena Bass and Jesus White, did speak of the other candidates’ strengths. Bob Brady got this ringing endorsement:

U.S. Rep. Bob Brady seems to genuinely care about the chokehold that crime has on Philadelphia’s citizens and streets. Mr. Brady, the beefy and very personable dealmaker, has a knack for bringing people together and mediating labor disputes — he would make a terrific secretary of state or master of ceremonies at the carpenters union’s annual awards banquet.

Ahh, yes. Bob Brady, a candidate who would like to reduce crime, would make a fine M.C. With Brady on the mic and Mix Master Mike on the turntables, this city can be one huge party ’til, like, 5 a.m.

Nutter is the best choice [Northeast Times]
Michael Nutter for Mayor [CP]
New Poll has Nutter Moving [Young Philly Politics]
Archives: Bob Brady
Archives: Michael Nutter

The Party Of The Year!

Going-Away Party For Eternal Damnation

Colleen Ott was born Catholic, converted to the Baptist denomination — heathen! — at 17 and most recently was a member of the Pennypack Baptist Church in Northeast Philly.

In June, she was even named a deacon, which means she could distribute communion and get superpowers or something. Last month, though, she came out as a lesbian.

Naturally, the church told her she couldn’t be a deacon anymore unless she went to gay therapy and she’s now with a new parish, First Baptist Church of Philadelphia in Center City. As you can tell by the name, this was rated the best Baptist church in Philly by Phillymag. It also has a pastor who said: “When Jesus was preaching the Gospel, he never said, ‘Only the straights shall eat at my Father’s table.’”

But her old church wasn’t so bad, really. Although the Rev. Tony Tilford and his wife, co-pastor Jean-Marie Tilford, wanted to her to join either Harvest International Ministries or Exodus International, two groups that try to de-gayify people, they did want her to be happy:

She said the Tilfords offered to throw a going-away party for her, but Ott declined.

“Goodbye, Colleen! Enjoy hell! It’s a shame, we all kind of liked you, too.”

Faced with ex-gay therapy, lesbian leaves Northeast Philadelphia church [Philadelphia Gay News]

Blogicized: Great Discoveries Of The Internet

• Metroblogging discovers that unpopular movies released over a month ago are sometimes removed from theaters! [Metroblogging]

• Phillyist discovers that some people are rude! On the Internet! [Phillyist]

• Fiftyone:Fiftyone discovers that you can get 1,000 people into Transit on two days’ notice, provided Hollertronix is there. [Fiftyone:Fiftyone]

Anthony DiMeo And ‘Breakfast’ Want To Make Sure You Know They Don’t Throw Sausage Parties

As he plans his appeal after his lawsuit against Tucker Max was thrown out of court, noted blueberry heir Anthony DiMeo is sticking to his main job as a party promoter.

And, according to a recent email to his listserv, he’s throwing a party with someone named “Breakfast” at ZBar tonight. However, it’s invite-only — i.e., you have to be on the Renamity listserv — and, if you’re a guy, you better have a bunch of butterfaces to bring along. From his listserv:

Through our close friend, “Breakfast”, RENAMITY has secured a very limited number of VIP Guest List spots. Also, as you may have heard, this will be a wild, highly produced event filled with celebrities, hot models, music, and of course everything is complimentary for guests…ALL NIGHT!! One warning: These guys run their door like they’re in Miami (no joke). But once you get inside it’s worth the trouble. Example, here’s what he said when I requested RENAMITY List members receive invites:

“Anthony, the only caveat we have is that we keep our ratio Vegas-style.” That means:

GUYS : please be aware that you will need to come with a minimum of 3 female(s) accompaniment to enjoy the festivities. (They aren’t kidding)
LADIES : bring the girls out, we have got you covered.

You see… oh, whatever, you already laughed.

But I do wonder how this fits in with his bashing of Tucker Max for “demean[ing] women.”

Full release after the jump.

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A Nice Batch Of Eviction-Ade

Good morning! How was your weekend? I hope it was better than this, taken Saturday in the Antique Row area:

Come to think of it, that’s a pretty good way of celebrating being kicked out of an apartment. I almost wanted to ring the bell and crash it. But, you know…

DiMeo v. Max, The Lawsuit — And The Party!

Remember Anthony DiMeo III? He’s the guy who runs Renamity, which threw the disastrous New Year’s party where the booze was free-flowin’ until about 10:30, then it stopped. 10:30, as you might know, is well before midnight, so paintings got stolen and Le Jardin and Renamity are sparring legally and blah blah blah.

DiMeo has, in the past, filed a lawsuit against a fine alt-weekly in this city, though it escapes my mind which one it was.

Anyway, DiMeo, who’s the heir to a blueberry farm in Jersey and has shaken hands with Donald Trump, is suing another fine American institution, namely one Internet Celebrity Tucker Max.

Max is a Duke law grad who decided that the career wasn’t for him — and now he runs a website dedicated to his tales of debauchery and having as much sex as possible. His just finished up a book tour for I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, which was on the New York Times best seller list for paperback non-fiction.

Anyway, Metro’s Josh Cornfeld — who’s on the Anthony DiMeo beat, I swear — does a great and unintentionally hilarious job of summarizing the facts:

“We’re going to prove it has not only distressed him but it has caused him harm,” said DiMeo’s attorney, Matthew B. Weisberg, “both emotional distress as well as commercial.”

“Awesome,” Max said by e-mail, calling the lawsuit the best news of the week. “Please give Ant-nee my address, so as to expedite delivery of a document I anticipate to be of the highest comedy. [...]

DiMeo is suing Max for more than $1 million.

Weisberg said the comments on Max’s Web site aren’t protected by the First Amendment under a law passed by Congress last year that outlaws anonymously posting or e-mailing messages intending to annoy.

Those paragraphs might be funnier than any intentional comedy I’ve ever read. News as this develops, of course, but for now, here’s one of the threads on Tucker Max’s website that he’s being sued over.

Party heads to court [Metro]
Here’s what’s fun — you’re getting served! [Citypaper]