>>> Halloween: Are you over it yet? Because of the whole Wednesday thing this year, All Hallow’s has taken on the long-form excess of Xmas/NYE, but there is still fun to be had, wobbly Thursday mornings to make. Our bets are on the Broadzilla @ Silk City/Turbostation @ R.U.B.A. Hall (see Noontime Nugz) twin juggernaut [...]

So far, we just haven’t been feelin’ this presidential race. We can’t think of a single person in last night’s Drexel debate that is endearing enough to deserve a pumpkin portrait, but most city bloggers went crazy. If you listen closely, you might still hear the faint clickity-clack of live bloggers pressing forward in [...]

We were really considering biting on Al Taubenberger’s new campaign video but we had a significant revelation. Call it coincidence or call it luck, just don’t call it technical difficulties:

It made us realize that as much as we love ya Al, you’re just too ugly to be on Philebrity. [PhillyWillDo]

It took an entire Special Investigations Unit of a Philly police department to unearth the dark underbelly of a Craigslist prostitution ring? We’re actually just surprised that it wasn’t just some of our drunk friends fucking around and bored with Missed Connections who got arrested, ‘cos most of them are hard up for cash [...]

FreeDarko is a blog that regularly runs essays on basketball and culture. Its ethos? The all-powerful mandate of style, psychology, liberated fandom, and unfulfilled potential in the NBA. Plus a little bit of zoology, Islamic extremism, and pop music.

After the jump, Michael Fichman puts on his pipe and slippers with Bethlehem Shoals, Philly expat [...]

Starring the Turbostation crew: Steven Bloodbath, Muhammed, Luke and Louis, all of whom are having the Werewolf Bar Mitzvah tonight at the R.U.B.A. Hall.

Why do Mexicans wipe after No. 2 and then throw the crappy toilet paper into the trash can rather than flushing it away? So gross! Let’s try to put an end to that madness.
Flushed Out
Dear Gabacho: ¡Felicidades! You’ve just stumbled upon the most surefire way to tell if a Mexican is fresh from the border— [...]

>>> Karen Heller jumps on the little-girls-in-slutty-Halloween-costumes beat just a few days after someone else at the Inky already did. To make it pop, though, she includes references to Tila Tequila (she seems to really relish calling this poor retarded a woman a bisexual “tramp”) and, um, thongs. Actually, we take it all back. We [...]

“Comcast users are reporting ‘connection reset’ errors while loading Google. The problem seems to have been coming and going over the past few days, and often disappears only to return a few minutes later. Apparently the problem only affects some of Google’s IPs and services. Analysis of the PCAP packet dumps reveals several injected fake [...]

>>> Attention residents of Fishtown, Kensington, Port Richmond, South Philly, Roxborough, Upper Darby, surrounding suburbs, and all of Jersey: DO NOT leave your homes tonight. Mischief Night means it’s open season for hate crimes on everybody. Remember the torching of Camden? The pumpkining of Old Man Metzger’s Place? The Toilet Paper Massacre of ‘02? [...]

Moe Tkacik’s latest screed on Jezebel is an insider’s look (back) at the coke-fueled megamachine that is American Apparel. While she does a fair bit of soul-searching amid all that dishing, she ends with a defiant “but you know, whatever” and admits in the comments, “The discount was pretty great and I still shop [...]

Nutter may be setting his latest sights on litter, but something else is suddenly emerging as The Issue Of The Moment. Yep, the homeless population has spiked to a robust 600-some, leading many to resurrect — just in time for Halloween! — snarky talk of Mayor Street’s pipedreamy “10-Year Plan to End Homelessness,” which [...]

After the jump, Brian James Kirk gives his old buddy Comcast a brief history of piracy.

An old 16mm, set to Saint-Saens‘ Danse Macabre, with Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra with Leopold Stokowski conducting, recorded in 1924 — the very first electrically-made orchestral recording in the world.

>>> Great moments in the Image Section: LOCAL MOMS SAY NO TO SLUTTY HALLOWEEN COSTUMES. But Ma, real talk: If your twelve year old decides to shed her Facebook, her Hollister and her ALL OF POP CULTURE for one evening in exchange for like a slutty nurse costume this Halloween, it’s probably already too late. [...]

We can’t seem to stay out of these rankings. When you’re ready to walk away from the ugly fixation, focus on the America’s Most Sedentary poll. In a list of 20 cities, we came in at…20, making us less lazy than say, Memphis. Thank your bike or your dog-child for this one. Since we’ve still [...]

Really, this is the kind of thing we’d expect from Penn kids. But you guys? Where did we go wrong? Where did we fail you?
BCO: We Don’t Know How They Didn’t Get The Shit Kicked Out Of Them, Either

>>>Beer is like food to us, so imagine how crestfallen we were to hear that the costs of hops is on the rise, possibly making happy hour less pleasant in the near future. According to this guy, anyway.
Brewmaster at the General Lafayette Inn in Lafayette Hill, Chris Leonard:
“Hops have become priceless, in that we cannot [...]

GYRO: Gyro Worldwide Announces Ad campaign: Philly is More Ugly When You Sleep Over!
PHILEBRITY: YAWN
GYRO: I thought you would say something like that. haha
PHILEBRITY: Seriously, I have to run this shit now? How many of you people work over there? And it’s THIS? This is the press gag you come up with? Please try harder.
GYRO: [...]