Leftovers: Philadelphia Is Duizelingwekkend!

• According to Dutch magazine Winq, Philadelphia is great for gays! Or maybe not. This whole thing’s in Dutch, so I can’t make sense of it. But I still dig the prose: “Pardon? Jawel, Rocky, van de film Rocky, Sylvester Stalone in zijn gloriejaren. The Italian Stallion
stond symbool voor het verslagen, ontvolkte en verloederde Philadelphia van de jaren zeventig.” [The Clog]

• As promised, the Wall Street firms have gathered in Shawnee on Delaware, Pa., and they… well, we dunno. But they’re there, and they’re possibly thinking about having a backup Wall Street somewhere around there. [AP/Philly.com]

• An official Philadelphia Will Do Recommendation™: The Philebrity Weekender. Some of the better local bands are playing at this thing. And a happy two-year anniversary of doin’ the whole blog shindig (as a job, to boot!) to Joey. [Philebrity]

• The Erie woman who beat her baby daddy with her baby said she didn’t mean to do it. Oh, well, then, we better give her the Brett Myers treatment. [AP/Philly.com]

• Breaking: Men can be nurses. Hmm. [Daily Pennsylvanian]

• Almost forgot! Tonight, Dan Savage with Liz Spikol at the Troc! And it’s a benefit event for Philadelphians About Santorum. If you like your politics left and your male sex columnists gay, then this event is for you. [The Trouble with Spikol]

In Case Of Terror, Move To Pa.

If you’re wondering what Wall Street would do if, say, Wall Street were demolished with a terrorist attack or a License to Kim Jong Il Brand Nuke™, well, Ed Rendell wondered that, too. And Ed Rendell and others decided to do something about it, namely make the answer to that riddle, “They go to Pennsylvania!”

Yes, Fast Eddie himself has pledged $30 million for Wall Street West. And “more than 20″ Wall Street firms will check out the area tomorrow — after being transported, via helicopter, to the Poconos (neat!). And the first project is set to break ground in Monroe County in June.

And why are the financial firms so eager to build backup replicas in, say, Carbon County, seemingly even more eager than our government is to protect us from non-hilarious “terrorists”? Well, important things are at stake!

“We can’t control the disaster, but we sure as hell can control the recovery,” [a developer] said. “We’re talking about the preservation of Mom and Dad’s 401(k) plan and Johnny’s college fund.”

Indeed. Heroes, all of you.

Pa. Wants to Become ‘Wall Street West’ [AP/6 ABC]