>>> You know, just like there is in any other occupation, the gossip game (especially in Philly) is literally filled with walking parables: Columnists whose items routinely hit a rock bottom banality that is no longer funny or cute, just fucking miserable and sad. As we’ve noted before, it is to our eternal shock and horror that Dan Gross joined this group well before his time, but while we hope that O.G. Dan will one day ride high and fly the flag of Intelligent Life Forces At Broad & Whatever once again, this item on Ryan Howard going to some shitty Delco titty bar tells us that the “______ was spotted at _____” formula is a crack pipe no man can get off without an intervention and months upon months of rehabilitation and soul searching. And alas, its only rewards are a whole row of “Comment Deleted” edits, and well, this item. Fuck. [PhillyGossip]
>>> But of all people, it would be A.D. Amorosi who’d be the guy to tell us that fighting the addiction is a lifelong struggle, and for every utter bottom-feeding nightmare the Modern Goss Columnist goes to, there are triumphs of the spirit to be had every day if one can just enter The Machine but not become part of it. To this end, we present the “John Wayne Bobbit Is Not Healthy Enough For Celebrity Boxing” post. Angelo, you give us hope today. [TheClog]
>>> But then, some of us never come back. [Philly.com]

This entry was posted on Monday, November 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm.