Rumblings: Rich White Men And The People Who Love Them
>>> Buzz Bissinger‘s foaming-at-the-mouth indictment of Inky deadweights Stephen A. Smith and John Grogan on the Blinq comments section results in 483 other blog posts and one story in Editor & Publisher. Bissinger’s beef? That these guys should bow out gracefully and let other Inky employees who are not as well off stay on. Our beef? The movie version of Friday Night Lights fucking sucked, and does this guy even live here anymore? Also: Who the fuck is John Grogan? Because we don’t really speak “irrelevant overpaid daily columnist” around here. [E&P]
>>> Sofitel at 17th and Sansom is getting sold. Paging Ed Rendell: If it’s not bought out by other French people, does that mean we can all go back to speaking the King’s English whilst carousing in “The French Quarter?” [Bloomberg]
>>> And finally, The Philadelphia Stock Exchange welcomes… THE EURO! Nobody as hot as Andrew Jackson on those things, but hey, money’s money. Welcome to the party, my Drakaar-smelling friends. [ExchangeHandbook]
January 8th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Saturday evening, just outside the church parking lot on 17th/Vine found a Euro note (5). Thought a tourist must have dropped but I guess The Philadelplhia Stock Exhchange is doing some kind of promo. Gotta find a currency exchange rate store that doesn’t charge too much.
Current value: 6.51150 USD, an increase from yesteday’s posted value of 5.8 something or another USD