Archive for the 'Dog Days Directives' Category

Dog Days Directives #6: Stream Hardbodies On Netflix, Because You Can

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Seriously, when is the last time you watched Hardbodies? Yes, it might have been titillating back in the mid-1980s when adolescent you saw it on the sly some way, somehow, but the precious gift of time has rendered the film absolutely, tantalizingly absurd. It’s creepy in so many ways it winds up being kind of [...]

Dog Days Directives #5: Start An Impromptu House Of Holes Reading Group

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Here’s one of the many fun/funny things about Nicholson Baker’s new self described “Book of Raunch,” House Of Holes. If one person around you is reading it, suddenly everyone around you is reading it. The book — a sort of light alternate-reality fantasy in which random horndogs (read: all humans) find themselves in the House [...]

Dog Days Directives #4: Go On An August Crime Spree

Friday, August 5th, 2011

We’ve been staring longingly and wistfully at the flyer for Cinémathèque Internationale of Philadelphia‘s “August 2011 Crime Spree” all week long. It’s like they’re in our heads: We love nothing more than movies that are French/movies about people stealing shit. It is truly the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of the visual world. Their series of [...]

Dog Days Directives #3: Embrace The Two Most Beautiful Things New Jersey Ever Gave Us (Other Than Springsteen And Ugly Tomatoes)

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

We speak specifically of The Flying W Pool, which you will begin organizing a road trip to right now on the friends’ email list that has been for too long dominated by wedding and baby preparations (these things are great, but they’re not SWIMMING), and Weber’s Drive-In, where you will stop on the way and [...]

Dog Day Directives #2: Call Off Work And Catch A Phillies Game

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

There are few things in Philadelphia that say summer more than Phillies baseball, and the record of nearly 200 consecutive sellouts at Citizens Bank Park shows that a lot of you are heading down to those games. But there is something weirdly special about taking in a day game on a weekday. The sun is [...]

Dog Days Directives #1: Take A Midnight Ride To Lorenzo’s And Get A Slice

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

We don’t need to tell you about the heartbreaking state of present-day South Street, because we pretty much haven’t shut up about it since this site launched almost seven years ago. But we try to, at least a couple of times a year, go down there and spend money as a form of tribute; Tattooed [...]