Archive for November, 2009 Monday, November 16th, 2009Came across this on some porn site (sorry, not literally). Isn’t that a SEPTA seat? Caution: Boobies, possibly on SEPTA, after the jump. No, it couldn’t be. They didn’t made it. We don’t-ed would believed it. Monday, November 16th, 2009As you have probably noticed, Christmas is now like baseball season: It takes up nine months out of the year. Well, almost, anyway. WOGL 98.1 FM has rolled out its holiday music station already, and we’d be pissy about it, were it not for just one important point: Christmas music fucking rules. It’s a scientific [...] Monday, November 16th, 2009So, as we were saying on Friday, the poor old Drexel Shaft finally met that great Cialis Pill in the sky yesterday morning. And of all the videos we’ve seen of this — and there are many — Kevin Martin‘s slowed-down, tripped-out version (above) kinda gets it across best. Behold: A metaphor for industrial America! [...] Monday, November 16th, 2009Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water: It’s not Jaws, nor a turd in the pool (although, metaphorically…), it’s the #racistpool jerkoffs from last summer filing for bankruptcy. In this story in Saturday’s Daily News (yes, they still make that, for now), we learn that Valley Club President (and [...] Monday, November 16th, 2009Caught just before a tragic accident in which two Flourescent Stick Figure Pedestrians were fatally wounded after being pinned to two obscured traffic lights immediately behind them, this photo shows the duo’s last moments. They were said not to have known one another, but now, will be forever bonded by their sad fate. Seeing something [...] Friday, November 13th, 2009FRIDAY: >>> In case you didn’t know, this roller derby stuff is not only big business, but it’s also bloomed into a bona fide subculture of its own. And with leagues all over the country these days, you’ll be pleased to know that Philly pretty much leads the back, both competitively and in terms of [...] Friday, November 13th, 2009Imagine a film where two catering waiters carry on a rambling dialectic about the needs and wants of brattish NYU professors and their complex sexual nature, while an army of empty characters interact in a plotless void. No imagination needed. The Office’s John Krasinksi has made this very movie. It’s called Brief Interviews With Hideous [...] Friday, November 13th, 2009If this is not the rollerdisco jam of the year, we have no idea what is. Phenomenal Handclap Band plays Making Time @ Voyeur tonight. This Noontime Nugget will explode in 30 seconds. Friday, November 13th, 2009>>> Geez Louise: Even when Jon Gosselin is being all meta and ironical, he’s still a douche. Actually, make that: Especially when Jon Gosselin is being all meta and ironical, he’s still a douche. [FunnyOrDie] >>> The Hipster Grifter talks with The Daily Beast, during which we learn… nothing. Nothing at all. [TheDailyBeast] >>> Arthur [...] Friday, November 13th, 2009The “Drexel Shaft” at the 30th Street Station Steam Heating Plant, built in 1929, is slated to come down forever (also sexy) this Sunday morning at 8AM, whereupon there will be an awkward brunch date immediately afterwards. The fairly excellent Necessity For Ruins blog has more history on all of this than you thought you’d [...] Thursday, November 12th, 2009>>> Our buds at Weathervane Music Organization — a new local non-profit musician advocacy group — are staging a big ol’ benefit at Johnny Brenda’s tonight with a host of artists who’ve already done projects with Weathervane: Sunset, East Hundred, Danielson and BC Camplight. It’s a great bill, and a good cause. >>> But that [...] Thursday, November 12th, 2009· America’s Favorite Dumpling On A Stick: The Corndog · PYT Brunch: Curing Hangovers One Sammich At Time · Why Can’t Cookbooks Be Scratch N’ Sniff? All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity. Thursday, November 12th, 2009After a prompting from a commenter in yesterday’s “Double Dutch Bus” video post, here is a history lesson in the small role that Frankie Smith played in uncovering the “Yuppie Conspiracy” (dubbed as such by Federal authorities) run by Larry Lavin, West Philly dentist and $5M/175 lbs.-of-cocaine-per-month drug dealer (mug shot at right). From 1978-1984, [...] Thursday, November 12th, 2009Now listen, Beanie Sigel, you my man and the whole fifty grand, BUT… are you really trying to drag Jay-Z into some antiquated beef thing? Really? Let’s put it in perspective here: Jay-Z is on the Forbes list. On the other hand, Beanie might have shot himself to get press a few years ago. But [...] Thursday, November 12th, 2009AHOY MATEY! Say, you feel that chill in the air? We know what can cure it: A piping hot mug of delicious GROG. When prepared right, a cup of this stuff will simultaneously make you feel like all is right in the world AND peel paint off of walls. So join us, along with Sailor [...] Thursday, November 12th, 2009Move closer to your world, my friend; don’t hit my hair. Move closer and don’t hit my hair, and you’ll see. Thursday, November 12th, 2009Jennifer An, one of our own as well as one of the final four in America’s Next Top Model (Season 13), has been given the boot as of last night. If you haven’t been following this season, Tyra has been up to her typical unorthodox approach to models (they are all under 5″7) and they [...] Thursday, November 12th, 2009OH MY GOD! DO YOU LOVE DOGS! WE DO! THIS WEEKEND IS THE KENNEL CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA DOG SHOW OUT IN OAKS, PA! IT’S ALSO THE NATIONAL DOG SHOW, AND IT WILL BE ON TV ON THANKSGIVING! WHICH IS ALSO A GREAT TIME TO GIVE THANKS FOR DOGS! (I LOVE YOU, LOUIS, YOU CRAZY DINGO [...] Thursday, November 12th, 2009Hey everybody, this is Kill Hannah. Good Lord do they suck. Yesterday morning, they woke up at the Holiday Inn on Packer Ave. in South Philly to find that all of their tools with which to make the Hot Topic soundtracks were stolen, because they obviously never read this Philebrity post. And now they’ve cancelled [...] Thursday, November 12th, 2009Andrew Thompson reveals in the City Paper today something that might be useful for artist-types looking to take advantage of the acres upon acres of dead space under the El, where Fishtown bleeds into Kensington: If you block City Councilman Darrell Clarke’s parking space, there is going to be hell to pay. After a group [...] | | |