CURATOR: Welcome to Penis World, Pa!

POSTED: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 10:00 AM

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➤ Last week, our music editor, Patrick Rapa, made his way to SXSW in Austin, Texas. The days-long music and film festival has become something of legend, where basically every bar and venue in Austin is pulsing with great music from all around the world. As is evidenced in his Day 4 recap, quite a few Philly bands made their way down. Also in atteneance, Phrequency put together a collection of local band photos featuring Nicos Gun, Suede Uppers, Arrah and The Ferns, The Armchairs, The Spinto Band, Slutever, and Reading Rainbow.

➤ I don’t think there was a book I disliked more as a 16-year-old boy than Pride and Prejudice. Call me crazy, but I don’t think many high school guys can relate to Victorian rich folk running around fretting over choosing a proper husband. Even Mark Twain said, “Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I want to dig Jane Austen up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” For those who share Twain's sentiments, Geekadelphia gives its impressions on a book that may help bridge the gap between both hardcore fans and critics of Austin's work: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After. That’s right, it's a zombie parody of the novel that, according to Philly's ultimate nerd site, is apparently pretty well written. Hear that? It’s Mark Twain is rising a tumbler of Old Crow in his grave right now.

➤ Working for Wikipedia must be one of the most fun jobs ever. When you’re not correcting facts on the “Football in Guam” page (first thing that came up when I hit “random article”), you get to read some pretty funny edits. According to Philebrity, for a short amount of time the Philadelphia Zoo wikipage was changed to "Penis World Zoo" located in Penis World, Pa. It has since been corrected, but I’d like to think that for a short time, people all around the world had a nice giggle in their cubicles at work.

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