FROM THE DESK OF SGT. BYKO: TAKE PERSONAL STUFF HOME Please remove personal items that you use or value from the workplace before expires at midnight Thursday, November 30. If a strike becomes necessary, you will not be allowed to enter the building to retrieve your belongings. Your bargaining committee is working hard to avert a strike. If one becomes necessary it will be because the new owners are being too aggressive in seeking to force us to help pay for their purchase of our newspapers. Keep working until you hear from your union officers that a strike has been […]
GUNCRAZY: Philly Mom Of Gun-Paralyzed Son Pulls the Plug FOUR YEARS AFTER HE WAS SHOT FOR REFUSING TO GIVE UP IVERSON T-SHIRT; Mom Donates Special Handicapped Van To Family of Boston 12 Year Old Paralyzed By Stray Bullet, Live On NPR
Kevin Johnson‘s perilous grip on life may come came to an end today because his family has made the gut-wrenching decision to disconnect him from the mechanical life-support system that has been keeping him alive for four days at Frankford Hospital/Frankford division. “I feel right now that Kevin has served his purpose,” said his mother, Janice Jackson-Burke. “I was blessed with three-and-a-half more years with my son, and they weren’t wasted years. “Basically, God called him home now, and that’s where he’s going.” Jackson-Burke said her son fell into a vegetative state on Thursday after his ventilation system failed, and he was […]
EARLY WORD: The Fiddler Now Steps To The Road, He Writes ‘Everything Was Returned Which Was Owed, On The Back Of A Fish Truck Which Loads, While My Conscience Explodes’ *
EBAY SHOW BLACK FLOOR GALLERY 319 N. 11th ST. OPENS THIS FRIDAY DECEMBER 1ST 7-11 *”Visions Of Johanna”
HIZZONER ’07: Maybe It’s The Snappy Name, But We Are Really Likin’ This Jonathan Guy
From YOUNG PHILLY POLITICS: Jonathan Saidel Makes Me Go, ‘Hmmmm’ During Bob Brady‘s riffing, he started introducing other local politicians in the room, including … future Mayoral candidate Jonathan Saidel. The reason I bring this up is that I had never seen Saidel speak in person, and frankly do not know a lot about him. But, I would have to say, his speech very much surprised and impressed me, mainly for the fire with which it was delivered. And then, when talking to someone about the speech, I heard another story about Saidel, which made me think about his candidacy […]
LOVE & HATE: Local Dog Park Bitch Puts Lie To New Study That Says Women Just Won’t SHUT UP
EXHIBIT A) From yesterday’s DAILY MAIL: In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day – 13,000 more than the average man. Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat – and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new book suggests…the simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high. EXHIBIT B) From last week’s I Love You/I Hate You in CP: […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
SHAKEN NOT STIRRED: Miss Pussycat, Trocadero, November 25 2006
I AM JADED FUCKIN’ INDIE GUY and You Will Know Me By The Trail Of Dead and the Sting Of Mine Envy
ED KING REPORTS: Show of hands, please: Who else found Mackenzie Phillips’ annoying kid sister character in American Graffiti kind of hot and wished that Paul LeMat’s Milner character would drop his noble rebel pose and give the girl the ride she deserved? As I listen to Ys, Joanna Newsom’s new rallying call for indie guys who love art school girls, sadly for the most part, from afar, and as I work hard to tune out constantly repeated critical buzz phrases like “classically trained” and “Van Dyke Parks,” I’m reminded of the desire my young, twisted teenage heart felt for […]
MORALITY PLAY: Mercenary World Of Maverick Publishing Only Six Degrees Of Separation From Kato
It’s a small, sleazy world after all. Back when we were pitching publishers a dishy sex, dope and fucking in the DJ booth memoir by a long gone diva of local broadcasting with not much to show for it but a lot of pats on the head and butt, we had an occasion to meet this Pablo Fenjves, AKA the ghostwriter of OJ‘s doomed blood money sorta-confessional. The subject of our memoir knew somebody who knew somebody who knew Judith Regan and so she knew Pablo. Well, it turns out Pablo heard about the book and wanted to take a […]
Gaybo: WHO DO YOU HAVE TO FU*K TO SMOKE IN THIS TOWN? + THANKSGIVING QUEERIES + THREESOME OF THE WEEK
TOMMY ZANE REPORTS: Can someone please explain the smoking rules in this city, because I’ve been in numerous clubs with people smoking all around me. If there’s food being served, you can’t smoke? Is that it? Funny thing is, none of the gay bars allow smoking. Word is that’s why Woody’s went up for sale — his receipts were cut in half by the smoking ban. I still get that weird pay-to-play feeling when I’m standing around a straight club and people are lighting up everywhere, but not so in the gay bars. Could it be the gay club owners […]
BUY NOTHING DAY Protesters Get ‘In The Face’ Of The Consumerist Zombies Along Walnut; Scare, Amuse And Mostly Annoy In A Way That Will Change NOTHING
Buy Nothing Day Action (Philadelphia) Sunday, November 26 2006 @ 02:00 PM PST Contributed by: Anonymous Views: 102 Direct ActionLast Friday the 24th was buy nothing day as im sure many of you know. This is an account of the action I participated in. We (about a dozen at our peek) [sic] met at an intersection in the fashion district of philadelphia at noon on friday and had a mobile dance party in honor of consumerism. we dressed as businessmen and gave away “certificates for guilt-free consumerism” a copy of the text is below. We hit probably 20 stores including […]
Record Drug Bust To Have Exactly No Effect Whatsoever On The Percentage Of People Selling Or Buying Drugs, Just Sayin’
$6 million in cocaine is found Police investigating a shooting on an Oxford Circle street discovered the stash in the victim’s house. Police summoned to a reported shooting in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday night stumbled onto $6 million worth of cocaine. The 61 kilos in a house in the 1000 block of Levick Street amounted to one of the city’s largest drug busts of the year, said Capt. Chris Werner, who commands Narcotics Field Unit 2. Darnell Romel Bolger, 25, faces charges of conspiracy, possession with intent to deliver, and possession of a controlled substance. Bolger, who lives in the […]
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
YOU CAN PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND A MEMORY: NY Dolls, TLA, November 25, 2006 NEW YORK DOLLS [FLICKR] PEACHES/MR. QUINTRON [FLICKR] CITIZEN MOM REPORTS: What the hell is Quintron doing back there? OK, there’s keyboards, and one of those whirling synth things you wave your hands over, and there’s a small drum kit, set behind the grill of an old Lincoln onstage at the Trocadero. The headlights work, of course, and when they blink to life, you know Mr. Q is about to go off. And my man lets loose, a Deep South dervish sweating through his nice white suit. […]
GLUCIFER: Dodgy Looking Bovine Seen Grazing Near Rittenhouse On Black Friday
Glue-filled locks on Walnut Street A sticky surprise for some retailers A vandal apparently seeking to make the annual Black Friday shopping blitz a little bit crazier for retailers in oneWhen the retailers arrived to open their stores early yesterday morning in the 1400, 1500 and 1600 blocks of Walnut Street, they found their keys would not work. Sixteen businesses were hit, Philadelphia police said, with about $200 in damage at each. The vandalism occurred between the close of business Wednesday and Thursday morning, they said. […] Another store got surveillance video of a suspect, a man who stood in […]