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Apr
15
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Okay, so this photo is way too cool to be real. Apparently GPTMC welcomed Stephen Colbert with a big giant party for him and Jason Smith took this photo.
Yes, Mayor Nutter is the both the nerdiest guy ever and a rock star, and I’m still not totally sure how that works. But if it leads to photos like this, who cares! And, wait, there’s more: This kinda way long stalking Stephen Colbert piece — the Dan Gross one is good — has some blogdrama at the end, where someone accuses CP of copying off this Phillyist article that’s trying to get on TV or something. Aw, only 18 Diggs.
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dmac | 1:24 PM | 1 Comment
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Apr
13
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Yesterday, Phillyist contributor G.W. Bridge had an interview on the blog with none other than Kerri-Lee Halkett. Did you know Kerri-Lee is from Canada? Yeah, you probably knew that. Did you know she doesn’t visit Kerri-Lee.com but knows the information on it is out-of-date?
Anyway, the interview also touched on yours truly — because, really — and despite actual television footage to the contrary, I’m always a little nervous that people I write about will one day hunt me down and I’ll wake up dead one morning.
Well, it appears I’m somewhat in the clear:
Several local bloggers, like Daniel McQuade, seem to talk about you a lot, and your blog on the station website generates a great deal of comments, some a bit unusual. How do you feel about this and do you enjoy blogging?
Well the world of blogging is a powerful one. That is the lesson I have learned. Be careful what you write in a blog, because it will wind up cut and pasted on everybody else’s blogs. I think it is kind of fun. My mom taught me a very good lesson, never say anything, never write anything, never do anything that you don’t want everybody to know about or respond to. So I kind of blog with that rule in mind. If this was going to get everywhere, would I be comfortable with that? So when I do see it cut and pasted and that sort of thing, I always think I suspected that one.
I just didn’t realize it could be as powerful as it is and I think that excites me and scares me a little bit. So, yeah, I am intrigued by the whole blogging thing and yes we do have to blog.
Oh crap. Write things you don’t want everybody to know about? Well, damn, maybe I shouldn’t have that reading about how disappointed I am in myself.
Since KLH didn’t mention me specifically in her answer, I can only assume one of two things: (1) She’s cool with the blog, or (2) She doesn’t want to say anything mean. Either way, it works for me!
Phillyist Interviews… Kerri-Lee Halkett [Phillyist]
Fox 29 [Flickr]
Archives: Kerri-Lee Halkett
Archives: Daniel McQuade Deathwatch
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dmac | 3:02 PM | 1 Comment
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Dec
11
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Over the weekend, Phillyist editor Star C. Foster — who also blogged at her own site, Sarcasmo’s Corner — passed away of a pulmonary embolism.
I pass on my deepest condolences to her family, friends, co-workers and fellow bloggers. She will be missed.
Sad News [Phillyist]
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dmac | 3:54 PM | 0 Comments
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Jul
21
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• Is the Delaware Republican Party going broke? Would make sense. After all, they’re supposed to be the more fiscally responsible party, right? [Delaware Watch]
• Hey, guess what? There are rats! In the city! And not just in the subways! [Metroblogging Philadelphia]
• Remind me that, if I ever get into an argument with my cell phone company, not to write a missive as long as most PW cover stories — 3,396 words — about it. [Phillybits]
• Wait, I’m supposed to make fun of this, too, aren’t I? Right? Well, a commenter took care of it for me: “Um, I don’t even know where to begin. You kids make it that much easier for me to move. Oh well, good luck with what may very well be the sweat pants of all -ists.” Ba-zing! [Phillyist]
• JGT Update: In Chicago, heading to storm-damaged St. Louis soon. [Traffic.com Roadtrip]
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dmac | 3:38 PM | 1 Comment
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Feb
14
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Way back in October I took note of one writer for Phillyist who happened to always mention in her weekly rants how some guy was hitting on her. Here’s what I wrote at the time:
Quickly becoming my favorite game on the Internet: reading Jill Ivey’s Phillyist rants against vague or inanimate entities, and try to guess how long it takes her to make a reference to a guy hitting on her. The record is, like, 2 paragraphs.
And it went on like that for, uhm, two weeks or so. But like many things on this site, I eventually grew tired of it. And I forgot about it. (Also, she stopped writing about how she was hit on.) But PW intern James Houston has eagle eyes, apparently, and noticed this in a Daily Pennsylvanian column:
College senior Jill Ivey uses the escort service often, but she has had experiences with security guards who took friendly conversation a step too far.
Ivey told him, “I’m going to meet up with some girlfriends.”
“Girlfriends or girlfriends?” the guard asked.
When she responded, “A bunch of female friends,” the guard replied, “So, you’re straight?”
If you’re playing at home, it took five paragraphs in a column by someone else for Ms. Ivey to mention being hit on. If only my life was full of such admiration from the opposite sex.
Friday. [Trader] Joe Friday. [Phillyist]
Sexual comments need attention [Daily Pennsylvanian]
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dmac | 1:05 PM | 0 Comments
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