~ at the suggestion of saul cups, we are posting a plea. the following items were last seen in the rear of a honda civic in west philadelphia. please let us know if you see them on the sidewalk, under a bridge, or in the possession of a fucking asshole:
- 1 box of about 100 marvel and vertigo comic books, dated jan 2005-november 2005, all bagged, boarded, and alphabetized.
- 1 belkin wireless router, still boxed
- 1 ‘peets’ box containing 950+ ‘postbaroque’ postcards
- 1 ‘path’ shoebox containing various first aid goods, photographs, collection of posters, postcards, envelopes most of which also mentioned ‘postbaroque’.
- 1 box various kitchen tools, such as spatula, whisk, spoons.
- set of various ‘stanley’ hand tools, such as hammer, screwdrivers, level, measuring tape, etc
- spindle of compaq discs containing software
- various musical compact discs, such as billy bragg, spiritualized, lyle lovett
~ howard dean on the differences between democrats:
“The differences are pretty small, perhaps Senator Lieberman excepted.”
haha!
~ possible article for ghostcycle.org #1:
area man cycling across 47th street discovers it takes more than a full punch to the face to cause him to lose control of his bike.
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The union representing Philadelphia subway, trolley and bus workers threatened to strike unless a contract is reached by Monday, leaving the transit system’s 460,000 daily riders to find alternate ways to travel.
The city is preparing for a possible strike by setting up extra bicycle racks…
why not put out the bike racks anyway? also, pave south street and 21st street, then replace the cobblestones and bricks between trolley tracks with concrete everywhere except on 49th street.
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did they appear out of thin air? perhaps you had just ordered a coffee, and instead were presented with a cadre of bible thumpers in bad suits? were they beamed down from a spacecraft?
this is all very disturbing.
no! there is an unnerving trend in west philadelphia which involves the use nubile, sensually dressed young ladies who are dispatched to your neighboring table in the cafe and your front door at home. they pose as normal students, only upon close inspection does one realize that they are, in fact, actual christians; the text they are studying is the ‘holy bible’ and the syllabus before them is actually a list of ‘watchtower’ drop off points. you speak to these cafe spies at the risk of a lecture with the intent to convert.
on one occasion, however, we were able to observe a clearly collared priest proselytizing on the sidewalk; he was informing a boy in a foam hat and testament t-shirt of the harm in drinking beer from a coffee cup at 9am.
~ sansom street vignette:
‘we know you weren’t expecting us, but we thought you might be interested in talking about some of the things on the news’
‘is that a bible?’ (pointing)
‘yes! it sure is!’
‘i’m not interested. thank you’
‘ok, bye bye.’
~ overheard in alley behind angry red planet offices:
“get off that bike! give me that bike!”
“do you want to come take it?”
“yeah!”..”pussy!”..”i’ll smack you!”..”queer!”
~ to the bitches who ripped the hasp from the gate to the cage in which we stow our huffy, thanks for keeping us on our toes! we have grown fat and complacent due to the pleasant weather and apple pies; we sometimes need to be reminded that hospitality has deserted philadelphia.
q: do they have pretzels in phila?
a: they are more prominent than they are here; they are not handed out on every street corner, but they are placed around case registers/covered in choco, etc. there is a particular brand which i enjoy; they are called ‘uncle something’ and they are made by hand, locally. i find it queer that in this age of standardized global transportation, there are still items which are found ‘up there’ but not ‘down here’. for example, they have these things called ‘tastykakes’…
q: mmmm! i love tastykakes!!
a: …
~ to whomever sent us the link regarding tj’s opening in new york city; we congratulate and welcome you into the 21st century, but you might note that we have relocated to philadelphia.
~ usa today has also joined the 21st century, or is reprinting headlines from 1977?
”Star Wars’ goes utterly commercial’
~ kaffa quote: ‘i think a.d.d. is a sort of fake problem. i mean, all children need attention’
~ imezzo quote: ‘…or that fucking douche bag – that fucking german girl or whatever the fuck…’
