Archive for August 17th, 2007


Snark Is Relaxing

Dear Little Bald Bastard,
  Do you ever get tired of being sarcastic all the time?
- Wondering

Dear Wondering,
  Are you kidding? I live in a world where thousands of Americans are dying in an occupied foreign country, which was invaded partly on the advice of a Vice President who doesn’t believe he’s part of the Executive branch of government. I’m pretty sure I sneer in my sleep.

[x-posted from Ask The Little Bald Bastard]

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Necessary Linkage

  Spend some time beneath the tracks of the Market-Frankford El with David Kessler’s Shadow World. It’s a video blog featuring the people who live and work in the city’s Kensington section. These are folks you don’t see in the “Philly’s awesome” flick that runs before Imax movies at the Franklin Institute. Their neighborhood struggles like an underfed vine in the grimy shadow of the El. The videos don’t editorialize; there is no Michael Moore-ish self-promotion. Just simple, revealing moments among the city’s forgotten, that should be mandatory viewing for the mayoral candidates.

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