Daily Archives: March 21, 2009

Goodnight Mennonite!

That’s what we used to say when we were kids. To say that I was an extremely strange child is no exaggeration…

Let’s move on, shall we? Okay, so Philadelphia City Paper published a front-page cover in its March 12, 2009 issue titled “Believe it or Not:
Meet the reluctant face of Kensington’s radical Christian movement
.”

I am totally loving City Paper’s recent stories. Maybe I pay more attention now. But I doubt it. I think their covers are becoming a little less artsy/hipster/cooler-than-though-but-too-cool-to-use-the-word-”cool” and a little more Philly. Which is to say more stories I care about :P Jazmine Sullivan. Olney. You get the jist. Sometimes it feels like they’re reading my blog mind. Kudos to Brian Howard and his team.

Okay, focus. So last week’s CP cover story was about a bunch of Eastern University graduates, evangelical Christian, hippy dippy types who are living in a house in Kensington and spreading the Word (and a lil’ somethin’ something’ us crazy Christians like to call social Gospel).

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The Brown OC

Yay, desi people are so ambitious nowadays. (Sarcasm.)

As much as I like promoting brown people, I wince every time I watch one of these RaisingDesi productions. Ugh. Anyone else? Whatever, everyone’s hot.

Is Fran Dunphy Really Philly?

Sam Donnellon, PW’s Sports Columnist certainly thinks so. Not quite sure. I have Chaneyesque-loyalties. At the same time, I must say Mr. Dunphy is quite the classy gent. Very polite, very much a good guy. Dude doesn’t miss a thing. I still have his business card. Never losing it either :p Continue reading

Forget whatever else….

…..one has to enjoy the framing of this quote from a lawyer defending an undercover Philadelphia cop accused of stealing from Mom & Pop stores:

“Now that the Daily News has created a mass hysteria concerning the Philadelphia Narcotics Unit, it comes as no surprise that every defendant ever arrested will now proclaim their innocence and bark about being mistreated,” Bochetto wrote in an e-mail to the Daily News.

“Suffice it to say, there is a not a scintilla of truth to such convenient protestations.”

Scintilla, good word. I’m also enjoying “bark” and “mass hysteria.” Good stuff. It must suck being a criminal lawyer.

Read more here. Oh wait, philly.com always kills its link after like  – 3 days. Okay, darn. Here’s a summary.

The Daily News interviewed seven store owners and an attorney representing another. Independently, they told similar stories: Cujdik and fellow officers destroyed or cut the wires to surveillance cameras. Some store owners said they watched as officers took food and slurped energy drinks. Other store owners said cigarette cartons, batteries, cell phones and candy bars were missing after raids.