Need a million dollars? Like living in the wild? Is an occasional stab in the back your cup of tea?
It’s not mine, but I know a few Survivor fans out there who may be interested in knowing there will be a Philadelphia casting call this Thursday for the all too popular “reality” show.
I had featured Latoya Byrd in my October installment of Missing Monday. Of course, I haven’t been alone in posting photos of missing persons—the movement has caught on with many bloggers in the Philadelphia region, several of whom have also posted Latoya Byrd’s photo and basic information.
There was good news on that front in today’s Philadelphia Daily News, which reported Latoya had been safely reunited with her family over the weekend. By the news account, Latoya’s return home had little, if anything to do with blog postings, but that’s not the point. The point is that a fifteen year old girl missing for close to a year is finally back home.
That’s a good thing.
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Phreaking Philly offers a review of one of the city’s fine sidewalk bistros. He notes the overall dining experience, from the ambiance to the food. In the following snippet, he marvels at the friendly staff:
He greeted me warmly on this cold January afternoon – “Yes, my friend?” was his salutation, spoken so convincingly that I believed for that moment that I was, indeed, his friend.
Click here to read the whole review.
1. Flies and Blue Skies – King’s X (Dogman)
“There’s a fog in my mind,
and there’s nothing not far behind.”
2. Why Independent Record Stores Fail – Marah (Point Breeze Single)
“I ain’t too good at sayin’ things,
but I could tape you certain songs.”
3. Green Eyes – Coldplay (A Rush of Blood to the Head)
“Green eyes, you’re the one that I wanted to find;
and anyone who tried to deny you must be out of their mind.”
4. Bolt Action – Vigilantes of Love (Blister Soul)
“Man at the crossroads with a voice of anticipation.
He’s playing elmore james and reciting lamentations…”
5. Love Comes Tumbling – U2 (Wide Awake in America)
“Hide yourself in someone else;
don’t find yourself in me.”
6. Getting Thru – Fuel (Natural Selection)
“Am I getting through to you-
-how much more should I define?”
7. Red, White and Blue – Lost Dogs (Green Room Serenade, Part Tour)
“My daddy said a man has got to fight to be free-
-tucked his slogans into bed beside my brothers and me.”
8. Progress – Midnight Oil (Species Deceases)
“We got our eyes on the firmament, hands on the armaments,
heads full of arguments, and words for our monuments”
9. At the Stars – Better than Ezra (How Does Your Garder Grow)
“Maybe I should drop you at your door
or leave tonight and vanish up the shore…”
10. My Iron Lung – Radiohead (The Bends)
“Faith, you’re driving me away. You do it everyday.
You don’t mean it, but it hurts like hell.”
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– a gray Lake Luxembourg, mid-afternoon, on a day when the sun never quite broke through. But apparenlty it was trying… (click here for larger image)I just downloaded Performancing for Firefox, and it’s a pretty cool little tool that can publish to various blog platforms. Pretty cool stuff… I, of course, did not know it existed until about three hours ago.
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This was unexpected. While doing some innocent blog theme research this morning, I happened upon this delightful little video via Living on an Island.
I had been trying not to bash Wal-Mart too heavily in recent months. This is not because I’ve softened in my dislike for the company, but rather I like to focus on happier things (as you can probably tell).
But when something is both anti-Wal-Mart and just a little bit funny at the same time, I’m still a bit of a sucker. Hence this faux Garth Brooks music video, that I’ve actually known about for a week or so.
What compounds the relevance of this video for me is Wal-Mart’s response to it:
“… It’s a shame that this group would use this type of publicity stunt to take away from what we do to help working families save money every day,” said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Karen Burk. … (source)
Of course Karen forgot to mention all of the working families that they help get on welfare programs, but it’s an understandable oversight on her part, considering who signs the paycheck. Which leads me to wondering, what did they have to offer Garth Brooks that he’d surrender the right to market his music at any outlet besides Wal-Mart? Or is his career already that far in the toilet?
Past that, exactly how much sympathy am I supposed to feel for Brooks or for a company that actually had the gall to suggest in writing that employees would lose certain benefits if they joined a union?
maybe it’s lucky this guy wasn’t hearing that appeal. (It must be hard to rule against fifty thousand dollars in WalMart stock.)
Any post that bears the following title has got to be worth a click:
Well, Sometimes – If I’m Real Quiet – I Can Sneak Up On Your Mom
Scott gives a concise run-down of the Blogger Meetup, held this past Saturday at Fergie’s Irish pub in Center City. It was a well-populated get-together, stocked with both bloggers and blogger associates—about ten more people, and we could have taken the place over.
There was not Irish dancing this time, but the music was still good. And I have discovered another one of my favorite buffalo wing spots, now that I’ve sampled Pete’s “Sunny Dee” Buffalo Wings (silly name, but great wings). I sampled some hard cider while I was there too (almost forgot how much I like that stuff).
The conversation was excellent, as it always seems to be, and for about three hours on Saturday afternoon/early evening, we did something other than blogging. If you’re a blogger, or blog consumer, in the Delaware Valley, you might consider coming out for the big event next month.
Not that everyone else hasn’t already seen this, but:
Young Chuck Norris
(I was such a Chuck Norris fan back in the early to mid 80’s…)
(via BoingBoing)
In my continuing fascination with random photoblogs, I came across a site called Chicago Sunsets.
If you’re a localite to the Philadelphia region and you’re a Philly Future member (or are open to such a membership), you can now cast a vote on the next featured blog.
But hurry—voting closes tomorrow morning.
1. Can’t Keep the Rain – Black Lab (Your Body Above Me)
“I needed something loud and bright
to keep the memory at bay…”
2. Bitter Tears – INXS (X)
“Realize what we’re doing here.
The time is right to kill your fears.”
3. No One Knows – Green Day (Kerplunk)
“Does it seem like all your memories fade?
You soak up knowledge to fill the space.”
4. The Humour of the Situation – Barenaked Ladies (Maroon)
“In the momentary lull before the band begins to play
there’s an overwhelming stench of alibi”
5. Not for You – Pearl Jam (Vitalogy)
“All that’s sacred comes from youth-
-dedication, naive and true…”
6. There Forever – 77’s (Golden Field of Radioactive Crows)
“will something that i never had
be something that i’ll want again?”
7. Waiting for You to Come Around – Lost Dogs (Green Room Serenade, Part 1)
“Now if you still have doubts about it, forget about them now;
I will wait for you to come around.”
8. Pay for What You Get – Dave Matthews Band (Under the Table and Dreaming)
“Everybody asks me how she’s doing; has she really lost her mind?
I said, I couldn’t tell you—I’ve lost mine.”
9. Every Mother’s Way – Adam Again (Perfecta)
“It went up into the air and bent around the sun.
What falls upon the earth is lost to everyone.”
10. Future Says Run – Tonic (Sugar)
“Holding lightly words that make you aware,
your head’s spinning—no one knows you’re not there.”
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Favorite song: 6
Most “criminally under-appreciated” band on the list: 7
Trivia question almost nobody will get: Two songs on this list are actually sung (lead) by the same person, which songs are they? (I said “almost”)
And the others? Andrea, Ben, Fred, Luna, Marisa, Mark, The BM Rant
In a move reportedly prompted by her crack(ed?) legal team, Becky has finally come clean and incorporated a handy little EULA.
Oh dear, I fear I may have just violated term 2…
In the words of Scott (whose words I wholly endorse):
Come one, come all to this month’s insanely great Philly Bloggers’ meetup, which is dedicated to our founding Blogger, Ben Franklin. There will be food, there will be fun, and there will be alcohol. Check out the details and get ready to join us at Fergie’s. …
This is the invitation you’ve been waiting for, at least if you’re from the Philly area. Trudge out from behind your keyboards, lose the pajamas and come out into the clear cold light of day to meet the others.
Not a blogger, but always wanted to see what they look like up close? There’s room for the lurkers too.
Go ahead, it’s good to be social. And contrary to popular belief, we’re not all politics all the time. Click here for more info.
Vatican paper article says ‘intelligent design’ not science
As a person who believes in a form of “intelligent design” but doesn’t think it should be passed off as science, I’m glad to see the Vatican taking this stance. Now cue the response of the “real” Christians.
I was just browsing an article someone had suggested to me. While I’m not going to blog about the article, I am going to mention the link that appeared at the foot of the article; it was for The New York Times – Electronic Edition.
I’m not sure what to make of it, as in whether or not it amounts to a viable savior for the slowly dying world of print news. That aside, my first impulse upon reading about it was that it represents an electronic version of the news that I had envisioned seeing years ago when I first heard of reading newspapers online. It’s literally the same newspaper content you get from the newsstand, but in electronic format, with a few added tools, of course. Among them are search, zoom, cut-and-paste and paperless archiving for future use.
I’m considering their seven-days free offer, just to see what it’s like. I’d definitely partake in something like this for the long haul if the Inquirer, or my local suburban paper, were to offer a comparable service.
Looks pretty cool, and in my less-than-executive understanding of news organization survival, it seems to be a model that could slow the demise of print news.
Of course, it only deals with circulation woes that are due to the dominance of e-media, but that’s something right?
I should have more to say in about a week…
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