I like a man who thinks the answer to his problems is in Philadelphia. He's an optimist, that man.
I've heard some very encouraging Philadelphia stories.
There's one that ends with marrying Grace Kelly. I don't know what further encouragement one could need.
I know of a good greasy spoon on the south side.
Maybe Tim Burke can get me a job at Sw/thmore.
Good gracious, I seem to have mistaken High Society for the film on which it was based. Anyway, Katharine Hepburn is certainly enticing if not exactly encouraging.
Philadelphia is a perfectly charming little city with affordable real estate and great walkability. But I am a native son (well the burbs) who will never return. So I mock.
And with some wall coverings and a throw rug, a dingy basement can become inviting.
I wish I spent my Halloween in a dinghy basement, because environs like those are hella improbable, and I am nothing if not all about the hella improbable environs.
Once I watched a drummer playing a show in a dingy Philly basement get up mid-song and barf (because drumming made him barf; he wasn't drunk or sick or anything). His bandmates explained that he barfed at every show.
And now that I wrote that out, I think it was actually Wilmington, DE, and not Philly.
environs like those are hella improbable
What!
My city defies causality.
I always knew.
Your city is a small boat with a root cellar. That's hott.
13.1: His high school guidance counselor was a sadist. You should have seen when she pushed the kid with hay fever into farming.
You ehxpect me to notihce every goddhamn H?
There are Gang of Four cover bands? This really is the best of all possible worlds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJHQmJAiKA
is just great. I listen to it at the gym -- no David Sedaris podcasts for me.
We saw Die Antwoord on Halloween! It was awesome!
I think neb would like Philadelphia. It's a great city.
I just watched a television show about Philadelphia and it turns out that pregnancy as a result of incest is significantly less common than the residents of that fine city expect it to be!
I went to Philly once and the traffic was horrible. Plus, at a mall in King of Prussia, somebody tried to sell me a "squagel."
Apparently, some baker was really afraid his bagel would roll away.
I don't recommend driving in Philly. It's not as bad as driving in New York, DC, or Boston, but that's not saying much.
33 to 32 is a bit creepy, interpreted a certain way.
Have any of you seen The Art of the Steal? It makes you see Philadelphia as some insecure town full of corruption, betrayal and intrigue, the highest expression of which is, apparently, the abilty of extremely rich alive people to subvert the wishes of formerly extremely rich but now dead people and thereby abscond with the rich dead person's art to the public museum in the city center. Also, the Annenberg Foundation are apparently some sort of crazy monster lizard people.
We saw Die Antwoord on Halloween! It was awesome!
Pleased to hear that, because you said you were going to and I was afraid it'd be rather wearyingly predictable. How do they fill a complete set?
I meant to go to a midnight showing of "The Room" for Halloween weekend, but instead I had to write 50 pages or else my committee refused to write letters for job applications due this week. :-(
I would have also liked to see Die Antwoord. Last year I got drunk enough at a party that I thought everyone might want to hear this great band I heard of and put them on, but that was apparently a mistake.
