And adios, muchacho.

NYT: Scrubdown Begins

And so she calls the voicemail line at the super-scary LaptopLobbyist.com, and sayeth:
“Hi, my name is Rachel, and my telephone number is… I wanted to tell you that you’re evil, horrible people. You’re awful people. You represent horrible ideas. God hates you and he wants to kill your children. You should all burn in hell. […]

Indeed, that’s all we could think when a reader tipped us off to New City: Philadelphia, a new monthly going-out tabloid that feels like nothing so much as a good, solid frat-hazing anal rape weekend at Rowan. All articles about Glam and local-ish reality TV hotties well past their respective shelf-lives. Oddly, it’s based in […]

To qualify for Wing Bowl ‘05, you gotta start trudging through interminable Angelo Cataldi monologues tomorrow. May the person who’s lowered their expectations from life the most win.
Inky: The Rules Of Engagement

As we reported last week, the Diplo/M.I.A. collab CD is getting mad heat. So much so, in fact, that Pitchfork is reporting a sequel due out sometime in the not too distant future. Too much of a good thing? Doubtful.
Pitchfork: Diplo Double Dips For Hits!
Related: Diplo Interview At HipHopCore.net

When will we learn? When we stab Mummers in drunken Saturday night fights, we’re really just stabbing ourselves.
Channel 6: Mum’s The Word!

>>> “Blood Rock: The Final Benefit For Dave Blood, which is operating as a sort of post-party for last week’s wildly successful Dead Milkmen reunion shows. Tonight, kick it with Rodney Anonymous and Joe Genaro as they do some acoustic renditions of DM tunes, aided and abetted by a.d. amorosi, Jukebox Zeros, Live Not On […]

>>> The. Most. Awesome. Dude. Ever.
>>> A very Philebrity kind of love.
>>> Olde City, post-Thanksgiving: A Poem.

You know, for Christmas.
DN: I’m Totally Covered In Crude. What Should I Do?

>>> Tonight: Hit Upstairs at The Khyber for Return Of The Last Love, starring Chetana and Darshana Borah (pictured). These ex-Bombay To Brasil ladies are synonymous with taste and fine international music (Os Mutantes, Jaques Dutronc, etc). Also: You will never score with them. Don’t even try it. They’ve heard it all.
>>> Saturday: Catch […]

But really, it’s just rehashed AP stories deemed unworthy for Tattle. Sigh.
Spilled Inq: Get It? “Inq”? RFLMAO!

Those people handing out the Metro today are also giving out $3 Starbucks gift cards. Like Harold Bloom said: Get them in the crosshairs and take them down.

>>> For one, that FreshGrocer at Broad and Washington we told you about. Rather, we’re hearing that the supermarket in question will be cropping up on NorthBroad, at Progress Plaza near Temple. With the 10th and Passyunk Acme also rumored to be closing in January, that would leave South Philly a little light in […]

It’s hard enough to read Byko these days, what with his syntax always reeking of an English-to-Japanese-to-English translation. Today’s column? Totally meta.
DN: Eternal Sunshine Of The Byko Mind

We will resume our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.

Blahahaha! Like, these people, right? They bought a turkey, right? Like for Thanksgiving? So, then, like, the mom, right? She goes to stuff the bird? And then she reaches inside, right? AND IT WAS THE HEAD IN THERE! Blahahaha!
Diane Hall and her family found a turkey head inside their frozen turkey.
“I went to pull it […]

>>> The Sound of Philadelphia: Philadelphia Roots Vol 2: Funk, Soul and The Roots of Disco 1965-73. On Soul Jazz. (Mp3s up at MusicForRobots)
>>> One of those “MARY” t-shirts that looks like it says “ARMY” from American Mortals.
>>> Looped collar from Nunzi And Ezi for maximum Marc Bolan feyness.

Oh, lookie, lookie: Big companies are now using lobbyists to get in the way of Philly’s free WiFi scheme. The first entry into the Hall of Shame? Verizon. (No doubt to be followed by Comcast, et al.) It’s a dastardly plan, totally expected, and it’s also our prediction that this thing is basically dead already. […]

>>> Perhaps there is no better way to prepare yourself for a day of all-American fogginess and half-shame with your parents than to rock it tonight at Hollertronix at UACA Hall. Just think of it: a handful of those oddly mind-erasing Obolons (the Ukrainian beer that it seems only the UACA sells), a bit of […]