DISQUS

I love the second graphic. It's so embarrassing when people use dumb slang about the Internet to try to hide their ignorance. When my parents do it, it's one thing, but when it's someone who's used the internet since the mid-nineties, it makes me cringe.

I wish I had these for lunch right now.

I love that this has totally caught fire virally. A bunch of people at my office are doing it. Did you notice the ad in the right navigation for life insurance? Is it really a sales pitch wrapped in a fitness plan?

I'm amazed you weren't mowed down by an overzealous cyclist!

Pat's swing is something to behold, but I wouldn't say it's the sweetest.

This is really outstanding progress. You'll be tackling those 10 miles in no time!

I went for a run by Wissahickon Creek today and I was amazed at how the change of scenery made the run that much more pleasant.

If my last experience trying to sell anything is any indication, I'm guessing listing your car on your blog is better than putting it on Craiglist. Good luck man. It's a beauty.

This totally happened to our neighbor on Super Bowl Sunday 2007. We had a party raging when suddenly emergency vehicles start driving down our street the wrong direction. It almost interrupted Prince's halftime show!

More importantly, did your house survive the recent storm? It was one like that that messed up our roof and taught us the 'true meaning' of home ownership.

I just started riding to work again after a four year hiatus. When I'm not gritting my teeth in traffic between Fishtown and Center City, it's a pretty great way to experience the city.

I voted too, but just on the referenda! Then I called Committee of 70 to make sure I wasn't hosed on voting for or against Johnny Doc.

A friend of mine just pointed me to muxtape.com. I have yet to play with it very much, but it seems like a fun way to create a mixtape without the incessant social networking annoyances.

LOL @ friends/family who don't register for enough stuff!

Congratulations! Welcome to Olde Richmond/Port Fishington/Kensington Heights/Flat Iron or wherever it is we live!

This is amazing. I may be interested in a redesign myself, hint hint.

This is beautiful. Is this the one up on the north end?

Well, journalism and 'poverty tourism' are two very different things, right? As a casualty of late '90's identity politics, I find the whole notion of 'bearing witness' to be pretty insufferable and too voyeuristic to be nominally 'political.'

I wouldn't want to live as close as I think you do to Finnegan's Wake. I've gotta say that 'poverty tourism' sounds like one of the most patronizing, exploitative things I can think of doing in the name of 'activism.' I mean, I'm sure it's done/said with best intentions, but it's exoticism and not much that would be identifiably 'political.'

This was exactly the post I was looking for to freshen my feedreader's FOOD AND WINE category! Thanks!

It's easier to ignore than you think. Trust me. Local's better left to Doug Wallen!

As I rule I usually avoid Philly bands -- the local politics alone are enough to drive one crazy, not to mention that many of them are bad, bad bad -- but this [and shoegaze ex-pats Panda Riot] make me want to reconsider.

Current was pretty early in this race, but it crashed the hell out of the entire site for days! And then it turned out that everyone had it anyway. I was pretty thrilled to be able to get these clips and scotch_mist for Comcast. Did you try to watch scotch_mist when it streamed at 7 PM New Year's Eve? It was pretty great to start and then the Quicktime environment broke down for me. :( Nevertheless, a great way to promote an album that pretty much everyone's had in some form or another [got the discbox for Xmas] for nearly a month!

Tried to comment on the bad press Gridskipper post but that had gone missing...and so had the bad press! The internet is magic!

Yeah it's spammy. Also, I think that it's fair to say that hybrids are improving the situation, since as you note, suburbanized America requires a ton of car travel, so whatever consumers might do to affectively upgrade CAFE standards helps. Sure it's a Reaganite mode of voting with one's wallet, but it's not like Critical Mass protests are doing much more than pissing people off.

I was enraptured by this show, but I think that Season 2 really topped it all, tho Season 3 has its moments, even if it's cribbing from McCabe and Mrs. Miller pretty hard.

Beach Boys Kokomo tour was my first too...at the Allentown Fairgrounds! We convinced our music teacher that year that we should sing it in the spring concert. A chorus of 5th and 6th graders singing Kokomo would've probably found its way into Dante's Inferno were he writing today.