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If you haven't seen it, it's new to you right? Check out this kind of amazing video of a block party held right outside CP's current office, Second and Chestnut. Featuring: The Sixers, punk rock, hamburger music and spoon playing.
Former listings editor/award-winning City Paper writer Juliet Fletcher works at the Atlantic City Press these days. It's a daily newspaper, but I guess they do video stuff from time to time. (Don't we all?) In this report, Juliet ventures to the edge of an eroded sandbank in Sea Isle City. A little madness breaks out around the 3:15 mark.
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Have you ever had to report something stolen to the police? Would you ever tell the police that someone stole all of your weed?
Would you then drive around drunk and call 911 again, while vomiting?
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| Philly Boy Roy, in his natural habitat |
Last night, in the early moments of The Best Show on WFMU, PBR made a bold prediction: It will only take one game for nem Phightens to humiliate nem Yankees and win the World Series.
This led to a very improbable bet between the showâs host Tom Scharpling of Newbridge, North Jersey and Philly Boy Roy Ziegler of Roxborough.
Also discussed in this clip:
- Lipstick City, Barney Miller and Raul Ibanez guitars
- The appropriate age to begin dropping the F-bomb
- The Cin-A-Bon/milkshake deathwish
- Spinal Tap, Drum Power and WaWa Records
- An army tank driving through a lake of fudge pudding
- The time Peter killed a grip on the set of the Brady Bunch
- Whether pimpinâ is easy or not
- Whether itâs OK to put Peanut Chews into piñatas
- Whose bathroom area hurts
[audio:http://stream.citypaper.net/music/phillyboyroy_phillies.mp3]
Big victory in Game 1 proves Philly Boy is Nostradamus. I'm displaying my "Roy Ziegler has a posse" sticker prominently.
No daydreaming about the Flyers during the games, Rapa, or it's a cannon full of cheesesteaks to the face!
My friend just sent me this link and I am baffled yet mesmerized. It's one of the most surreal things I have ever seen. Does anyone have any idea what this is about?
It's somewhat NSFW so be careful with the speakers.
h/t Rusty
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| photo from flyers.nhl.com |
The NHL season starts Thursday! The Flyers play Carolina on Friday! I'm watching the Red Wings play a team called Farjestad BK right now! Unless the IT people stop me! So. Let's take a look at all the predictions and soothsayings being predicted and soothsaid:
The Hockey News says the Flyers will win the Stanley Cup. It's nice to hear somebody else say that besides myself to myself every year. Read why they love Philly here.
Jon Buccigross of ESPN sees the Flyers coming in 4th in the conference and concludes: "The Flyers are tougher and deeper and have higher expectations. They should. They are good; if they raise the Cup in June, it will not be a shock."
I like Bucci, even though he a) thought it was a good idea for the Flyers to sign a bunch of Uruk-hai defensemen (Hatcher et al.) when everybody else was going for small and quick and b) quotes Guster with a straight face. Generally, though, Bucci doesn't just like hockey, he gets it. Case in point:
The Flyers won a Stanley Cup in their seventh season of existence in 1973-74; they won another Cup the following season. In all, Philadelphia has made seven Cup finals appearances in 30 years. It's quite a run. It's no mystery why the Flyers have such a passionate and loyal fan base. Besides the cool-sounding name, a name that fits like few others in sports, and how the DNA of hockey fits perfectly with the DNA of Philly, the Flyers simply have been good for a long time.
If you were born in the mid-'60s in Philadelphia, you have been privy to one of the most consistent and entertaining hockey teams in the NHL. Cups, Broad Street Bullies, Bob Clarke's toothless grin, Ron Hextall, Eric Lindros, the Legion of Doom, Keith Jones!, 378 goalies since 1997 and the current crop of players (drafted, traded for and/or free agents). The Flyers are once again an elite team, and there is a 7-year-old kid in south Jersey who will put on skates for the first time in the winter, fall in love with the game and this season's Flyers team and become a Flyers fan for life.
Read his assessment of the East here.
Bleacher Report, which I guess is a web site, says the Flyers will come in 4th in their division and dismissed Chris Pronger as old. Read that here, for some reason.
Covers.com, a betting site, calls the Flyers "the new beasts of the East" and praises the Pronger deal. They conclude: "the Flyers are the most complete team in the Eastern Conference and have a great shot finishing at the top." Read it here.
Sports Illustrated calls Ray Emery a wild card but sums it up like this: "On paper, they Flyers boast what could be the league's most balanced and talented team, top to bottom. Anything less than a trip to the conference final would be a grim failure." Read that here.
I saw this note getting passed around on Twitter earlier: "MontCo Animal Shelter is closing today. Having free adoption from 12-4p! Sadly, all remaining animals will be euthanized."
Turns out, though, that this was all a misunderstanding — the Montgomery County animal shelter in question is located in TEXAS, not Pennsylvania, but somehow this news got twisted around and applied to our home state. I called both Last Chance Ranch Animal Rescue in Quakertown and the Montgomery County SPCA in Conshohocken, and both confirmed that they will not be closing their doors.
We're very glad all this is not true — but it's still as good an opportunity as any to get more info on pet adoption. Please check out both shelters' Web sites for more.
[...] by Montgomery County Animal Shelters – New Jersey , Pennsylvania, Tennessee | Zoey’s Story on September 23rd, 2009 at 1:40 pm. wait, but does that mean the one in texas is closed?? by angel on September 26th, 2009 at 3:08 pm …More [...]
Montgumery, Texas.... http://www.click2houston.com/news/20982678/detail.html
oh, too funny. i thought it was the MARYLAND montco
i thought it was in virginia!!! sigh. miscommunication.
[...] Philadelphia City Paper Article re: non-closings in PA [...]
wait, but does that mean the one in texas is closed??
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| Photo | Mark Maglio |
| Daryl Hall and Angelica Huston? |
The only good things about The Spectrum's closing are the memories it'll conjure the closer to implosion, and the rash of wildly amazing shows (Maxwell with Robin Thicke, Leonard Cohen, Halloween with Pearl Jam) in the wake of its finale.
And though we were excited by the notion of Hall & Oates playing out their hits on Oct. 23 in accordance with its first ever box set Do What You Want Be What You Are. We got triply thrilled when we heard that Todd Rundgren was on the bill.
Not only did the Upper Darby/Philly boy trio form what would be the Seventies Blue Eyed Soul Axis (all due respect to Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan). They all worked as one when the Runt produced H&O's War Babies album 37 years ago. If you don't know from this oft-maligned personal fave of mine, oh ye "Kiss On My List" fans, dig this: Tonight (Wed. Sept. 15) you can catch Rundgren and Hall on the web series Live From Daryl's House (livefromdarylshouse.com).
Reunited for the first time in eeooooooooooons doing "Better Watch Your Back" from War Babies, seven of each other's best and a few covers by The Soul Survivors and Average White Band, this promises to be just a lick and a taste of the Philly brand cream cheese to come. Yum.
This would be funny if it weren't the saddest, most frustrating, most infuriating thing I've ever seen. A reporter wanders the grounds of the 9/12 Tea Party protests in Washington D.C. and mostly lets these outraged citizens hang on their own words.
Best footage I've seen of the insanity yet.
We need Obama to find a way to ban this kind of thing. Maybe it can be regulated as a safety concern, or an environmental thing. And don't give me that "free speech" bs - there need to be limits. This is just insane. People shouldn't be allowed to do this sort of thing.
And to think these people have the intelligence to sort through the issues and actually vote. It is important to allow for free speech and I can't say that stopping this is a) leagl or b) would change anything. The best thing for the Administration is to let these good people speak their mind to reinforce why the "moral majority" must be kept from ru(i)nning our country.
In all fairness, I too have laid awake at night wondering who all these "czars" report to, and how much money they make. But, mostly, I wonder where the f**k they buy those awesome hats. And for that matter, is Jason Kay from Jamiroquai in fact a czar? So many questions. I'm going to need a bigger sign.
Fuckin kommies, eat shit and die! When you were throwing your feces all over W and that pallin dudette and basically at whoever tried to talk some sense into you, it was OK, it was freedom of speech. Now, when your opposition reacts to your bullshit, you suddenly want a BAN on these kind of protests. Why don't you scum-vermin-subhuman-good-for-nothing-parasitic-tapeworms go fuck yourselves and fuckin' die, ha?
FUCK ALL YOU HIPPIES GO HUG A TREE AND KILL YOUR SLUTTY FRIENDS BABY.
^LOL^
xxx and MALTA, your guy lost. Obama is president now and even though he has a lot of Bush's mess to clean up, he's still trying to make things right for the poor who have been short-changed for too long. Hopefully he will give illegals a quick path to citizenship and lock in a democratic majority for good. It looks like the game is about to CHANGE - get used to it.
Republicans or conservatives pride themselves on getting higher education and thus deserving to keep the money that the earned through their education. However this video makes me ashamed to associate myself with the likes of these people. In a word: IGNORANT. . . OK 2 words: IGNORANT & SHAMEFUL... may I also add selfish and greedy too?
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