CURATOR: Philly voted 3rd most obscene city

Every Tuesday, Critical Mass pokes around the blog world so you don't have to. whyy.org Here's one reason Philly's so obscene - It wasn't long ago when I mentioned that Philly had been ranked the 3rd ugliest city in America. Well, unfortunately another list is out and Philly has once again been effectively shat upon. Phawker picked up on a recent Business Insider list, a list Philly actually found itself in the top 10 on. Only this time, we've been named "the 7th most obscene city in America." Pittsburgh is up there, too, at #9, making PA a pretty foul-mouthed state. So here's the score so far: 3rd ugliest, 7th most vulgar, and 4th best pizza. I'd rather be ugly than hungry any day. - Even though it's not quite winter yet, it sure as shit feels like it. We've been feeling that northeastern winter weather where the wind is so cold, not even eating the 4th best pizza in the country could cheer us up. What's one to do? Hole up and get drunk. Phrequency gives us a list (I guess lists are what's up this week) of winter cocktails that give you a reason to brave the cold on a Saturday night, or a reason to watch A Christmas Story 10 times in a row. There are some awesomely named contemporary recipes like "Sleep is the Cousin of Death" and old historical favorites like the "Philadelphia Fish House Punch" which was first served in 1732. - Real estate in Philly is pretty hard to come by these days. So much so that it seems like every square inch of parking space is accounted for, making holiday parking a cut-throat activity. The Philly Parking Authority (PPA) will be doing their best Grinch impressions by towing car after car to south Philly before stealing your money and bitching all the while. Philebrity gives us a funny little conversation piece, pondering how long it will take families spending a day in Christmastown to figure them out. I'm voting 20 minutes without help, 1 minute with. - And finally, Walrus Music Blog and many other Philly music blogs have posted the debut video from Philly atmospheric electronic pop band Nightlands (Dave Hartley of War on Drugs). This is a beautiful little song with collected 1970s footage from the public domain. Philly music has had a good year, let's hope for more of the same in 2011.

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CURATOR: Philly voted 3rd most obscene city

POSTED: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 3:00 PM

Every Tuesday, Critical Mass pokes around the blog world so you don't have to.

whyy.org

Here's one reason Philly's so obscene

- It wasn't long ago when I mentioned that Philly had been ranked the 3rd ugliest city in America. Well, unfortunately another list is out and Philly has once again been effectively shat upon. Phawker picked up on a recent Business Insider list, a list Philly actually found itself in the top 10 on. Only this time, we've been named "the 7th most obscene city in America." Pittsburgh is up there, too, at #9, making PA a pretty foul-mouthed state. So here's the score so far: 3rd ugliest, 7th most vulgar, and 4th best pizza. I'd rather be ugly than hungry any day. - Even though it's not quite winter yet, it sure as shit feels like it. We've been feeling that northeastern winter weather where the wind is so cold, not even eating the 4th best pizza in the country could cheer us up. What's one to do? Hole up and get drunk. Phrequency gives us a list (I guess lists are what's up this week) of winter cocktails that give you a reason to brave the cold on a Saturday night, or a reason to watch A Christmas Story 10 times in a row. There are some awesomely named contemporary recipes like "Sleep is the Cousin of Death" and old historical favorites like the "Philadelphia Fish House Punch" which was first served in 1732. - Real estate in Philly is pretty hard to come by these days. So much so that it seems like every square inch of parking space is accounted for, making holiday parking a cut-throat activity. The Philly Parking Authority (PPA) will be doing their best Grinch impressions by towing car after car to south Philly before stealing your money and bitching all the while. Philebrity gives us a funny little conversation piece, pondering how long it will take families spending a day in Christmastown to figure them out. I'm voting 20 minutes without help, 1 minute with. - And finally, Walrus Music Blog and many other Philly music blogs have posted the debut video from Philly atmospheric electronic pop band Nightlands (Dave Hartley of War on Drugs). This is a beautiful little song with collected 1970s footage from the public domain. Philly music has had a good year, let's hope for more of the same in 2011.

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