>>> City Hall jobs: Like the movie Brazil, but with perks. Take, for instance, the hully gully realm of City-issued cell phones, recently audited by City Controller Alan Butkovitz. “The audit, in a sampling of cell phone usage by city departments, also found instances of phones that could not be located and a phone that was restricted to snow-emergency use but had racked up a monthly average of 4,133 minutes in summer 2006, including calls to a number used by Philadelphia Park racetrack to accept bets.” Think that’s crazy? We have one here in the office we got from my cousin’s girlfriend’s brother that we use exclusively to crank call Pete Doherty and download T.I. ringtones. [PBJ]
>>> Press conferences we wish we’d been at: The one hastily thrown together yesterday afternoon with Rick Santorum and Brian Tierney officially announcing the debut of Santorum’s column, “The Elephant In The Room.” Rumors swirl that other titles, such as “The Fetus I Keep” and “Straight From The Frothy Mixture’s Mouth,” were contenders, but quickly jettisoned when brass realized that these were already top-selling fetish porn titles. [Editor&Publisher]
>>> Oh and look! The Next Mayor’s debate/forum/webcast thing starts… now! Psst… who’s the white guy? [NextMayor]

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