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Archive: October, 2009
Let's try to do this every day of the Phillies playoff run:
Today's Phillies T-Shirt of the day comes from woot.shirt.com Todd Marrone, was submitted by CP's own Drew Lazor and depicts Big Phoot, the Phillie Phanatic's wild cousin:
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| Todd Marrone | woot.shirt.com |
| Big Phoot |
Got a nomination for a Phillies T-shirt of the day? e-mail it to bhoward (at) citypaper (dot) net.
And don't forget, Phils play again this afternoon at 2:37.
Did "Drew Lazor" submit my work or claim it as his own? Depending on the answer, thank you... I'll sue you: http://toddmarrone.com/2009/04/01/big-phoot/ Regards, TODD MARRONE Artist Extraordinaire http://www.toddmarrone.com
Todd, I passed a link to your work along to Brian because he's a big Phillies fan and a big T-shirt fan and a big Phillies T-shirt fan.
[...] we’re quite the fans of limited edition sweet tees here at PWstyle. Big ups to local artist Todd Marrone! You may recognize him from a PW Pop Rocks article on his clothing line Ghosticorn. He tipped us on [...]
Julia Harte with your mid-morning fix.
The U.S. Supreme Court was debating whether a cross erected in the Mojave National Preserve to honor fallen soldiers violated the First Amendment's ban on governmental establishment of religion.
A Northeast Philadelphia couple was on trial for attempting to faith-heal their two-year-old son rather than seek medical treatment. The boy died of bacterial pneumonia in January.
France's Culture Minister, Frederic Mitterand, was facing intense pressure to resign over his defense of Roman Polanski as well as an autobiography in which Mitterand stated that "the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys" in Thailand "put me in a state of desire."
A new study suggested that the birth control pill, by suppressing hormone levels, has made women more likely to seek a responsible, long-term mate rather than lusting after the men with most sex appeal.
More than 600 Jane Austen fans were preparing to descend on Philadelphia for the the 31st-annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America.
The German author Herta Mueller, whose novels and stories about political alienation have been periodically censored in her birthland of Romania, won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.
CP contributor/friend of the Clog Jesse Delaney writes sharing these two T-shirt designs from excellent T-shirt site Philavania.com:
If I see someone wearing this shirt I might have to beat him down on sight.
Such is my disgust with SEPTA.
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This one, too.
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Ehrm, re: the SEPTA one, no. It does not make my blood boil. SEPTA is an average-run public transit system. No more, no less. The routes I utilize most regularly (BSL, The EL, trolleys, and the 23, 54, 5, 15, 48, 32, 27 and C buses) are rarely late (except the C. Groan.), and the fares are about average for a city of this size. With the exception of SEPTA still taking tokens and dragging their feet (kunckles?) to install MetroCard machines, and perhaps the ongoing struggle to find a balance in demand from consumers and influence from their operator union, and maybe their transfer system, for a city of 5+ million people, SEPTA seems to be doing a comparable, if not better, job than other transit authorities of the same size. Oh, you want an example? Atlanta's BART system SUUUUUUCKS. Yes, SEPTA is not Boston or DC's metro system, but it'll do just fine. p.s. I think the design is nice.
If you think SEPTA sucks, you should se other cities, especially Washington DC.
the DC metro is great if you live inside the beltway. If your outside the beltway, do not stay past 7:00pm or you will have no way home.
The shirt (and SEPTA) are pathetic. SEPTA imagines that running hybrid diesel buses makes it "green." Hogwash. Real electric trolleys can be run with 100% renewable electricity -- cities like Calgary have done this. But SEPTA refuses to run electrics on trolley lines 23, 29 and 79. This stinks. Question for SEPTA: If hybrid diesel buses are so green, then why is there a three inch wide exhaust stack on the roof?
Design is okay. I'd like to see http://twitter.com/mustloveSEPTA on a T-shirt (designed by Phillyist's _missbee).
Zoltan hits the nail right on the head. But it's Vancouver, not Calgary that has the large trackless trolley system in Canada, using a hydro-electric generating system to power it. Seattle and San Francisco also have large trackless trolley fleets, powered by a hydro-electric source.
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| photos by Patrick Rapa |
| NONTENDRE BANANAS (Third and Bainbridge), one of several in the area. |
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| Zoomed in. See? It's a penis. |
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| CRIMINAL (Third near South) |
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| Jon Solomon |
I'm not sure whether newspapers can have sister stations, but we think of WPRB like family around here. Aw. It's true, the free-form commercial-free radio oasis up there in Princeton does so much we like — especially on Wednesday nights when Jon Solomon keeps score at home.
Solomon — who hosted CP's Local Support podcast, back when we could afford such a luxury — is always turning me on to new music, and setting aside blocks of time for in-studio live sets by artists from the Philly-NJ-NYC area.
Tonight, WPRB starts its annual membership drive. I recommend you tune in — Solomon goes on at 7 p.m. with guests/music by like Obits, Jennifer O'Connor, Danielson, Screaming Females, The Spinto Band, Caterpillar, Bitter Bitter Weeks, Rebecca Gates and Tim Midgett — and consider sending some money to keep the station rocking and pick up a sweet t-shirt.
Julia Harte with your mid-morning fix.
Nine Philadelphia men, members of the Pagans outlaw motorcycle gang, were arrested along with more than 40 members in other states after the unsealing of a nationwide racketeering indictment.
Microsoft was being investigated by a European Union competition commission to ensure that the software giant is allowing its customers to run web browsers made by rival companies on its operating systems.
Defense contractors are often negligent, subject to little oversight and irresponsibly compensated, according to a new investigation by the Associated Press. Auditors for the Defense Department found that independent military contractors have received as much as $6 billion from the U.S. government in payments of questionable cause.
Philadelphia's Board of Revision of Taxes will be replaced by an independent entity that will no longer set property values or be permitted to exhibit personal and political favoritism, Mayor Nutter announced.
China's efforts to clean up its energy sector were paying off, according to a report from the International Energy Agency, and the nation will be at the forefront of the fight against climate change if it achieves its predicted savings.
Apple is the most recent company to quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in protest of the Chamber's climate policy, especially its opposition to regulating greenhouse gases and implementing a cap and trade bill.
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
The latest victim in a spate of random cruelty against Philadelphia-area felines, a six-week-old kitten in Chester, died at the vet from injuries sustained while being set on fire and stoned.
A Saylorsburg, PA woman was mauled to death by her 350-lb pet black bear, Teddy, whom she had raised from cubhood in a secluded menagerie that also contained an African lion, cougar, jaguar, tiger and leopard.
Counterterrorism experts were alarmed by the news that an al-Qaeda suicide bomber was able to ingest an explosive, pass through airport security and fly to Saudi Arabia, where he detonated after a signal from his cell phone. Though the target was not killed, the incident was a striking example of the innovative terror technology being developed by al-Qaeda.
More Americans die prematurely from preventable causes -- illnesses such as diabetes, epilepsy, stroke, influenza, ulcers and pneumonia -- than almost any other industrialized nation, according to new research from the Commonwealth Fund.
A tree estimated to be over 600 years old was chopped down in its Queens neighborhood after a tree expert warned that rot had made the 70-foot-tall, 100-foot-wide colossus liable to fall over.
The new building that will house the Barnes collection of impressionist and early modern art will be a "gracious, golden-hued temple - contemporary in style," according to the Philadelphia Inquirer's architecture critic Inga Saffron. It will include the typical museum spaces that the collection doesn't have at its Merion site, such as a special-exhibits gallery, café and support spaces.
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| photo by Mark Stehle |
| The Nor'easter. |
CP Choice Winner Shannon McDonald — you know, the Temple student reporter who exposed racist coptalk in a ridealong story — has some unexpected and ambitious plans for her NEast Philly newsblog: She wants to give the operation a real-world presence the form of a storefront. Which is why McDonald and co. are applying for a $40,000 Knight Foundation grant (which, Google tells me, does not come with a talking car). Quoth the application:
We intend to rent a small, centrally located office that will serve as an open newsroom for residents and our small staff. We'll choose a resident from each neighborhood to receive basic journalism training, professional support, access to multimedia equipment and a small payment of roughly $15 per post, if they share an update from their neighborhood at least once a week. They will include coverage of monthly civic meetings, but also updates on community events and interviews with other residents. Their coverage will then be curated by our professionally trained editor, whose time will be freer to track trends and write larger, more in-depth pieces when necessary.
Oh - that's why a lot of news web sites disable commenting
Black people are the ones to dehumanize and constantly want others to feel sorry for them and accuses people of racism more than anyone!
Terrible. I'm sorry, but her reporting smacks of petty destructiveness. The guy got fired? Awful. White people like to dehumanize other people by accusing them of racism. next.
[...] The staff blog of Philadelphia CityPaper caught wind of this. [...]
Who said anything about black people? They're just trying to get by like everyone else. I'm talking about the white obsession with anti-black racism. It's another form of white people demonstrating that they're better than you.
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| photo from thespec.com |
| Dan Carcillo was not implicated in the incident. |
I don't have any bloggity quips for this. It's just bizarre and it bummed me out. According to the Daily News's Stephanie Farr, some Flyers fans got into a knife fight in the Northeast.
In the bizarre incident, two Flyers fans who took a bus trip to see their team play in New Jersey were critically stabbed by other Flyers fans who were awaiting the bus' return at a bowling alley in Northeast Philadelphia, police said.
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During the course of the argument, the cop's 28-year-old brother was stabbed once in the chest and once in the back by a man in a Flyers' jersey, Northeast Detectives said.
Another occupant of the bus, a 26-year-old man, was stabbed once in the back by a different assailant who also wore a Flyers jersey, this one with ripped sleeves, police said.
On the upside, the Flyers has look pretty amazing in their first two games. Ray Emery blanked the Canes on Friday, and a crazy, cannonballing offense destroyed Marty Brodeur and the Devils on Saturday. Thi Pronger guy's pretty good, eh?
Yesterday, on the PA House Floor, Representative Mike O'Brien, whose district includes Fishtown (where the SugarHouse casino is expected to open), introduced an amendment to Senate Bill 711 — the gambling "reform" bill that also seeks to introduce table games like Blackjack and Poker — that would require Pennsylvania casinos to pay an additional 1 percent tax on gross table gaming revenues. The revenue would go straight to the county hosting that casino.
The amendment passed.
Whoopee, right? Everybody wins! Except the casinos, but they've won so much already they shouldn't mind.
But wait — there's more.
In all counties but one, that extra revenue will go to the county itself. This will not, however, take place in counties "of the first class." That designation, of course, applies to only one county: Philadelphia. Rather than Philly getting the cash directly, the money will be distributed to non-profit organizations "for the benefit of the immediate vicinity" of the casinos.
Who gets to pick which nonprofits get the money?
Interestingly, that will fall to a special seven-member advisory board, of which a majority of members will be picked by Rep. O'Brien, the sponsor of the bill, and State Senator Larry Farnese, whose district includes both casinos. City Council, the mayor's office, and the casino will each get to pick one representative, too.
With a combined majority of representatives on this board, incumbents O'Brien and Farnese will, presumably, have considerable influence over how and where the money is allocated — not bad come election time. Who, among incumbents, doesn't want a new pot of money to play with? Not that there's necessarily anything untoward in any of this.
Still, something about this jogs my memory. Wasn't there another state senator who liked dolling out money to a favored local non-profit? Then it turned out that he was getting free power tools and stuff? Then both he and the non-profit became the subject of investigations?
What was his name? Rhymed with "You know?"
Anyway, that's old news, right?
[...] CityPaper: …[A]n amendment to Senate Bill 711 — the gambling “reform” bill that also seeks to introduce table games like Blackjack and Poker — that would require Pennsylvania casinos to pay an additional 1 percent tax on gross table gaming revenues. The revenue would go straight to the county hosting that casino. [...]
This is crazy! If this means that the Reps would control the SSD money and that it would be used for organizations and such outside of the current SSD parameters, this is totally unacceptable. I have stayed out of the frontline battle either pro or con for the Casinos since, personally, I think the debates about having these casinos in the City should have been done before any sites were chosen, licensing was awarded and money spent. There should have been a ballot question so the citizens of this City could have had their say beforehand instead of going at each other's throats after Pandora's box was opened. The process was flawed from the beginning! Having said that and watching the work that those in the Fishtown Community have done to work out an agreement and process with SugarHouse, I think it's in poor taste and reeks to have politicians, whoever they may be, take conrol of any money...too much room for political interests. Let it be a Community Board!!
Let me get this right. I am quite confussed. State Rep Mike O'Brien & Senator Larry Farnese NEVER WANTED THE CASINOS BUILT. They would not even listen to the Pro Casino neighbors of Fishtown and surrounding neighborhoods. BUT, NOW they want their hands to control the Community Develope Money. Sounds real fishy to me. Hmmmmmmmmm. Who are they making deals with? You know that Fishtown will not see any money, jobs, etc if we stand by and let this happen.
The communities immediately affected by the SugarHouse Casino has spent months working with the Casino to create a Community Service District that would oversee the Community Development money, with a Board made up of COMMUNITY MEMBERS. Now the POLITICIANS are once again trying to control the money, which will mean the Communities affetced won't see the money, just the groups that support these politicians... this is a back door grab for "Special Interest" monies to be dispensed by the POLITICIANS.
These two politicians fought long and hard to stop the creation of jobs, funding for the community, internships, and economic development that was garnered in the CBA. And now they are putting their hands out to grab the money to be dispersed to their special interest groups (aka political supporters). These two proclaimed to every media outlet that would give them an inch of print that they wanted NOTHING to do with SugarHouse other then to fight it....and now they want to grab the money...totally disgusting, hypocritical, and frightening. We know how this works
Not surprised these two want their hands on the funds that will be used for the communities hosting the casino. Hmmm, which one of there friends will benefit??
You must be kidding? Here is a State Representative & a Senator that were totally against the Casino to begin with. Mr. O'Brien fought until his last breath, then they add this to another bill being presented. Wake up Philly, our elected officials are NOT looking out for us. Our History in the past 20yrs has shown they are looking in mirror, and looking out for themselves. I think Fishtown better wake up to the Folgers, and protest this issue. This is as blantant as it gets to a conflict of interest. I have only read this article and already I am shaking my head, since all of us PRO City/PRO jobs and PRO Sugarhouse, has fought for this project to move forward, then this? The very element that is against it all comes in and is permitted to decide what money goes where,??? is it me? is there something I'm not getting. Please someone tell me what I am missing here?????? We must have a say in our City, it doesn't look like we do. People, get your head out of the sand, Mr. O'Brien & Mr. Farnese are not looking out for FISHTOWN. They have proven that on several occasions, and in our presence at our own meetings we have SEEN and heard where they are coming from. And I can tell you first hand, it is NOT the benefit of Fishtown. We must unite and discuss......
Another back door issue slid in issue if I ever seen one. Why wasn't this PART of the Addmendment shared publicly as was the orignal portion????????? 1 guess.........
[...] is whining after you’ve lost. But! The PA House is making googoo eyes at table gaming! And in this post on The Clog, Isaiah Thompson details the ways in which, even when the casino thing in Philly may start make [...]
"Not that there's necessarily anything untoward in any of this..." This is sarcasm, right? A bill's own sponsor exempts his own city from receiving revenue directly to give himself greater control of the funds. God, this shit never ends.
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