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Oh, you all knew it was only a matter of time before Philly EDGE wrote about the Bucks County girl who is Miss May 2007 in Playboy.
Twenty-year-old Shannon James is Philly EDGE’s cover girl this week, and apparently: She’s a nice person! She’s excited about being in Playboy! She was naked for six hours! She has a Myspace!
James got her start on Howard Stern, after a friend sent photos of her in a bikini to the DJ, and then she appeared on the show while Stern and Artie and KC and Bah Bah Booey and Fred and Eric the Midget (or whoever) gawked at her.
And, uh, she’s met the biggest celebrities in the world.
She attended the legendary Halloween party at the Playboy Mansion where she rubbed elbows with the likes of Luke Wilson and Pauly Shore. [...] She even refers to the iconic Hugh Hefner, the magazine’s founder and editor-in-chief, as “Hef.”
Wow. Maybe if she becomes Playmate of the Year she can meet Carrot Top.
Picture perfect I Meet Holland’s Shannon James, Playmate of the Month May 2007 [Philly EDGE]
March 8: Bucks Co. Girl In Upcoming ‘Playboy’; ‘Philly EDGE’ Pounces
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dmac | 12:31 PM | 6 Comments
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Mar
14
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Every once in a while a writer comes along whose talent is so, erhm, different you just can’t ignore them.
Last year we had such a person in Stephen Morse, who now has his own production company. See? O, the places you’ll go when you’re named one of Philadelphia Will Do’s People of the Year.
And, recently, I learned of another young writer who is sure to shake the foundation of the literary movement. (Or something. Have you seen how nice it is outside today? I’m not spending too much time on stupid jokes right now.) The writer’s name is Ainsley Maloney. The Stephen Morse comparison isn’t really all that apt, as he wrote about how black people didn’t care enough about black people and she wrote about how sometimes guys and girls fuck each other without really caring about each other.
Her two recent articles are headlined “The Buddy System” and “Long, green trip.” The cover stories are, respectively, about fuckbuddies and binge drinking in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. Let’s analyze them in a charticle after the jump.
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dmac | 3:29 PM | 1 Comment
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Mar
8
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The undisputed champion of the suburban alt-weeklies (or SAWs), Philly EDGE, passed a link over yesterday with a stunning development: A Bucks County girl is going to be in Playboy!
Okay, so that’s probably not so novel. It’s probably happened before. But, like a good SAW, Philly EDGE is really, willing and able to tackle the story:
Bucks County resident Shannon James (right), 20, has been selected to be the Playmate of the Month for the May 2007 edition of Playboy. The issue is scheduled to be on newsstands on Friday, April 6. Read, and see, more about Shannon in an upcoming issue of Philly EDGE.
Aw, that’s a good suburban alt-weekly. Good boy! Now put her boobs on your cover next month. Oh, wait. I don’t need to tell them that.
Update, 10:34 a.m.: Apparently, James’ legs were sawed off in an accident of some sort, according to that photo.
Bucks in Playboy [Philly EDGE]
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dmac | 10:25 AM | 0 Comments
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10
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It’s the story you’ve seen everywhere! And by everywhere, I mean on Philebrity last week and then on the front cover of the Daily News on Saturday (of course).
Picking up the story and running with it is suburban alt-weekly Philly EDGE who ditches the skinny-girl-with-Cs cover formula for one week and instead goes with the Eagles (what else). It reports on several radio station promos for ways to get tickets: Somebody on Barsky smashed his wife’s heirloom wedding ring, somebody on Q102 had to write “Q102 Go Eagles” all over her brother’s body, etc.
But it also reveals a shocking truth about the couple who wanted to go to the Eagles’ playoff game in exchange for having sex at the direction of the one giving them the tickets.
Through a posting made on the Philadelphia page of craigslist.org last Thursday (Jan. 4), the couple, both graduate students at local universities, agreed to perform sexual acts at the direction of any ticket holder willing to exchange two seats for last Sunday’s game at the Linc.
“We (had several) offers,” Peter said, declining to divulge details of any encounter. He said he had been contacted by five newspapers, and men’s magazine Hustler, with requests for more on the story.
He admitted to being “(un)comfortable with all the commotion this has caused.”
Peter, though, had no regrets about the posting, which was first reported on by Philebrity.com, and then subsequently by the Daily News and several national Web sites. The results of the game, however, did disappoint him.
“I’m a Giants fan. She’s the Eagles fan…. This was a big game for the both of us. (It was for) bragging rights.”
In the original post, it specified no anal, which is appropriate: That was reserved for Sunday, when the Eagles totally fucked the Giants in the ass.
Sex for seats [Philly EDGE]
Local Couple Will Let You Watch In Return For Eagles Tix, But Seriously, Dude: NO ANAL [Philebrity]
Calling the play from the sideline [Daily News]
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dmac | 12:46 PM | 2 Comments
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Oct
4
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Last month, NBC 10 “broke” the story of WeBeHigh.com, a website dedicated to the availability of marijuana in particular towns. NBC 10 didn’t name the site, but as many noticed, there’s this thing on the Internet called “Google” that allowed people to search terms they saw in NBC 10’s screenshots — or, uh, “Horsham Marijuana” — to find the site.
Philly EDGE, the dean of Philadelphia suburban alt-weeklies, explores the issue further this week, making sure to note that there is currently no entry on where to get weed in New Hope. They also interview the site’s founder, Nir Shafir of Tel Aviv, and Lt. Mike Cummings of the Doylestown Police Department:
Cummings equated the site to something like citysearch.com, where—below a site-sponsored restaurant review—anyone with a command of the English language can post their views. “[The evaluation of Doylestown] is just one guy’s opinion,” he said. “He doesn’t even give his name. It’s just sort of like, how do I even know that this guy knows what good weed is?”
That’s right. Who knows what “qualifications” Stoner420 has to post on his little messageboard! Then again, wouldn’t a self-proclaimed stoner have a pretty good idea what’s good and what’s not?
Marijuana-related infractions in Doylestown have only been decreasing in recent years, in part to an increase in the number of officers patrolling areas once popular for using and selling. “I’ve been told lately that Doylestown is dry,” Cummings said. “Kids here are telling me that they’re driving to Trenton or down to Camden now for their drugs. They aren’t getting them here, and they’re not even going down to Philly anymore, because of the watchdog cameras.”
Wait. Cameras? Are stopping drug sales in Philadelphia? Oh, Lt. Cummings, you card!
Of course, since the NBC 10 report, you can probably guess what happened:
WeBeHigh.com lists the date that each town’s evaluation is posted on the site, and Yardley, which was added on Sept. 17, was likely posted by someone who caught the segment on T.V.—which is ironic, said S.K., 18, of Yardley, “NBC’s story only helped the site’s popularity, if you think about it.”
Thank you, NBC 10. You’ve made the suburban stoners proud. Then again, the NBC 10 newscasts are undoubtedly 1000 times better while high, so maybe it’s some sort of guerilla marketing.
Bud-dy system [Philly EDGE]
Sept. 14: Zagat Marijuana Guide Gives Philly Low Ratings
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dmac | 1:09 PM | 2 Comments
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30
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Photos and videos of girls kissing? Check.
An article about getting all sluttied up and going down to Sea Isle for a “Gottis and Hottis” party? Check.
An article about getting all sluttied up and going down to Sea Isle that includes the following description?
On this particular weekend, Meghan*, 22, from NE Philly, was the buzz of the house. She had just so happened to be at the House of Blues in Atlantic City for a Friday night show featuring actor John Corbett and his band. Most of you will remember Corbett as Sarah Jessica Parker’s flame Aidan from Sex and the City.
During the show, Meghan locked eyes with Corbett. As he exited the stage, he whispered in her ear “Wait for me.” [...]
Meghan met up with Corbett and the rest of the band in the Foundation Room inside the House of Blues at the Showboat Casino. She said the room was dark with a Buddha theme and was pretty empty because the band rented out the whole room. They stayed there until about 3:30 a.m. when they went to one of the bars in the casino.
As they shared a few cigarettes out on the balcony which overlooked the beach, Meghan said they also shared a little make-out session.
“The kiss was sloppy,” Meghan said. “He tasted like Patron (tequila) because he drank so much of it all night. Every time I turned around, he was ordering more Patron or shots of Red-Headed Sluts.”
The shot, she said, was a funny choice since he seemed to be a little sluttish himself.
“[Corbett] kept whispering in my ear ‘(Room) 1108, baby; you better be there tonight,’” Meghan said.
Check.
An article about getting all sluttied up and going down to Sea Isle that includes that description and also includes this description?
One of the girls, Sam*, 21, from Bucks County, couldn’t decide what to wear. She was going in and out of everyone’s rooms, trying everything on and hating it all. One of the problems was that her boobs were too big for most of the shirts she was trying on. She eventually realized that spilling out of her top was actually appropriate for the party we were heading to, so she settled on a black corset top with her significant cleavage popping out. She piled her auburn hair into a bouffant-like ’do, completing the trashy look in-line with the theme of the party.
Uh, check. And God bless the Internet, Philly EDGE and everything inbetween.
Snapshots from the shore [Philly EDGE]
Ki$$ for Ca$h [Philly EDGE]
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dmac | 3:26 PM | 0 Comments
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8
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Yesterday, we all gazed at the the new suburban arts and entertainment weekly paper The Impulse, produced by the Camden Courier Post. We learned of the paper’s policy on the use of “gonna” and its ban on LOL. We learned about the copy editor’s lack of shoes one day.[1]
We did, however, fail to take a look at how Philly EDGE had thrown down the gauntlet in this week’s issue, with a cover story on the River Hot Dog Man, who sells hot dogs on the Delaware:
When did you first decide to make a living with your wiener?
(Laughs) Well…uh…I always was one big wiener.
What’s the most important feature of a wiener, size or taste?
Alright then…ummm. I think the taste is most important. [...]
How do first-timers generally react to your wiener?
(Groans) They really like our big juicy wieners.
Now Greg, we’ve talked a lot about your wiener, let’s talk a little bit about your buns. Do your buns ever get soggy or misshapen from being near the water all day?
Oh, no, no. (Laughs) We have very voluptuous and soft, fresh buns.
Impulse is going to have to do a story on a restaurant called Big Dick’s House of Crabs in order to beat this one.
[1] For the record, as an intern at the Bucks County Courier Times a few summers ago, I once spent an afternoon without shoes on, but that’s because I had to cross a muddy creek while doing a story about a high school class’ trip to the woods. I think the story landed on the front page. (Go back to the text.)
Frank remarks [Philly EDGE]
Yesterday: Red, Gray And Black Walls Mean YOUTH!
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dmac | 12:46 PM | 0 Comments
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