Archive for the 'culture' Category
“Do It For Caylee”
So all over the fucking facebook, all sorts of people are posting these bullshit, self-satisfied “leave the porch light on for Caylee”, in memory of this 2-year old little kid whose mother Casey Anthony, everyone seems to suspect, has gotten away with murdering her. One person went the length of making a choo-choo train [...]
Read More..>>Morsels and Seeds: New Blog!
My friend and former colleague Cymantia Tomlinson-Bey just joined Morsels and Seeds, a blog that deals with food, farming, culture, and justice.
Anyone who reads my blog on a regular basis knows I’m deeply interested, and concerned, about all of the above. What really impresses me about Morsels and Seeds is that it’s produced entirely [...]
TD Bank: the Criminal Enterprise Targets Philadelphia Arts
I’ve written extensively about the criminal enterprise known as TD Bank, from the way they deliberately distorted their automatic payment system in order to wring late fees from homeowners while damaging their credit, to the way they participate in a program designed to provide loans to low/moderate-income households with bruised credit but set it up [...]
Read More..>>A Response to “Fuck You, Us”.
Sex Pistols, “No One Is Innocent”
Alex: “And fuck you, us. We’re the ones consuming all that oil.”
You’ll have to pardon me for lifting a response I made in comments to a full-on post, but I’ve been seeing this theme going around a lot recently. And while I respect where it comes from, I reject it [...]
February 14: I Love My Library Day
This Saturday is Valentines Day, and what Philadelphia institution is more deserving of a little love than our beleagured branch libraries?
Celebrate Philadelphia’s great public libraries at the following branches this Saturday, February 14, 2009. And make sure you see below for an earlier event at the Ogontz Branch.
Haddington – 446 N. 65th Street
1-3pm : Arts [...]
Phillyist Framed 2008 Competition
My brother Ray has an opening tonight. He’s one of the finalists for Phillyist’s Framed 2008 competition.
The show is tonight at Studio 34 Yoga, at 4522 Baltimore Avenue. Hope to see some of you there!
PS See more of Ray’s work here.
FOOB: No Fat Chicks!
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Today’s FOOB is more than a little offensive. This morning’s message from Lynn can only be stated as “No Fat Chicks!”
If it wasn’t made clear enough yesterday that Julia is inferior to Lizzie, with the wonky teeth and the gaping maw, now we see that Julia is also -horror of horrors- FAT!
Worse, she [...]
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Dock Boggs
Dock Boggs was the real deal, and the brief biography I’m does not do the liner notes on the Revenant Records compilation justice.
Dock was from Virginia, and was a bootlegger. At one point the revenuer man broke down his door,and grabbed Dock’s wife as a human shield. Dock aimed his gun, fired, and [...]
New Haven Story
I worked with this woman in New Haven named Rosemary Hernandez. She was a pudgy little person, fifteen years older than me with a booming voice that cut the air like an SST. She wore her hair up with a lot of hairspray, and had eyes that seemed to bug out of her [...]
Read More..>>Only a Mom Knows
Twice in the same “Phables” strip (warning, PDF), Brad Guigar writes, “Only a mom knows how sometimes the fear of one’s own death has nothing to do with one’s own life.”
Right, “only a mom” has any sense of responsibility or devotion to the family. “Only a mom” knows what it’s like to have children who [...]
