Archive for the 'Philadelphia' Category
Scrapple News: Dateline January 31, 2012
This week in Scrapple News: Chris Christie is an ignorant racist fuck! Mitt Romney is a robot who wants to be a real boy! And, Joe Paterno is still dead. That and more!
Read More..>>Piggie of the Week (New Year’s Edition)
I took a stab at writing the news this week:
Piggie will be up soon, but it’ll be a different editor (Sam’s here and my time is spoken for this week).
Read More..>>Goddamn Static
My colleague Scott Colan at Scrapple TV wrote and produced this incredible Life Lesson.
or rather, his father wrote it, in between a relatively minor stroke and the one that left him a permanently changed man. I think the space of time in which his father wrote the poem was about a half-hour.
Overdue Piggies
a few overdue piggies…
Read More..>>Driving in Philly, 10/3/2011
I was on my way to Northern Liberties, a neighborhood just north of old Philadelphia, when I got involved in some classic Philly driving.
Let me set the scene. I was headed north on 7th Stree, behind an enormous maroon Durango, one of those SUVs that are so big they look like some kind of [...]
Philly
I really need to start carrying around a camera.
This past Thursday I had to drop off my car for repairs. My mechanic (the only place I trust in this city, Schummer’s Super Sunoco) is located in the Mayfair neighborhood of northeast Philly, a good 30 minute drive from my place. There’s a bus [...]
What Is This Thing Called Love
Read More..>>Two Weeks Back
About two weeks ago, i was heading home on the eastbound Schuykill Expressway. As i drove along the stretch that goes under 30th Street Station, I saw in the westbound lane, a man on a road bike. He was all done up in lycra, wearing a helmet, and leaned up against the jersey barrier, studying [...]
Read More..>>Thoughts on Jesus and Joey Vento
Hot off the griddle from Scrapple TV. Please share with your xenophobic friends.
And now a thought on Jesus and Joey Vento. No, not Jesus Christ: if he really was Yahweh made flesh, then whatever He and Joey have to talk about is not my concern.
No, I’m talking about Jesus Ayala, who I worked [...]
i Gotta Start Carrying a Camera
This morning around 8:00 AM while ile driving Sam to camp, I passed a man who looked like life had beaten the shit out of him walking up woodland avenue toward the VA Hospital carrying a bag of piss. He looked half drunk, he was disheveled and unshaven.
From the bag, there was a hose that [...]
