July 26, 2006
Blogged Around Philly
- The NYT wrote about our City Hall - prompting local bloggers to praise it in their own ways. Blankbaby ogles it. I've Made a Huge Tiny Mistake urges
you to visit it. And Philly gets visual. (The building's statuary has always been Phillyist's favorite part of the building, so we were intrigued to learn that no one knows exactly how many statues there are - or if they have an overall message. Sounds like a thesis project just waiting to happen.
- Apparently, there are more tickets up for grabs for Sleater-Kinney's sold-out farewell show. Oh, you young hipsters - using "sold out" ironically. (Ed's note: Looks like in the time it took us to post this, the show got re-sold-out. Ah, well.)
- Calling all economists (or Homer Simpson): Philly is apparently a text book example of the donut theory, which postulates that "...a city will create concentric rings of wealth and poverty, with the rich both in the suburbs and in the 'revitalized' downtown, and the poor stuck in between." Phillyist can't make heads or tails out of the graphic - seems to us we're only half a donut. (via)
- Akkams' Razor has a few words about the brouhaha over Executive Signing Statements...and only a couple of them are derivations of "fascism."
-Eschaton points out that today should be a red-letter day. Snarf!
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Philadelphia's City Hall should be torn down for two main reasons:
1. It is a poorly maintained fugly butt ugly eyesore.
2. It represents a culture of corruption and malfesence of government officials which have used it as a temple for enriching their personal larder - present rouges gallery, I mean occupants, included.
Also, security in the building is a joke. Osama Bin Laden could walk in there carring an ICBM and the fat lazy cop would not even look up from his box of doughnuts.
Which brings us to the real doughunt theory - will the average corrupt, fat, lazy, incompentent, racist Philadelphia Police officer actually do anything if they see a crime or continue consuming the box of one dozen powdered doughnuts in their patrol car?
wow. someone is bitter.
No, not bitter. We need a second comming of Frank Rizzo. It is going to be a bit of a problem, since he is dead, but we don't need the corrupt SOB street and his corrupt minions running things, we need a head beating, ass kicking, guy to go in and do some good old fashioned policing, since this liberal touchy feely crap policing has gotten us in this current mess. So what, Rizzo beat the crap out of some skells, they deserved it, the city was safe and clean, so you really didn't care that he had a big ass expensive house in Chestnut Hill that you wondered where the hell he got the money for it from.
I just want to make clear that I am not racist.
I'd be saying the same thing if Street was white, Asian, a blancmange from the planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda, or anything else. In fact I think a blancmange from the planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda would most likely do a better job than Street. It is the individual and the content of his character, not the color of his skin.
On Tuesday, under the gigantic clothespin across from City Hall, I was doing a performance piece that involved parodying Italo-Fascist rhetoric (in gibberish), then Republican rhetoric (in... raging Republican Angluish). There was one passerby who seemed very inspired and completely oblivious to the fact that I was doing parody. He raised his fist into the air giddily in unison with me. Was that guy you, Goldman?... or just your neofascist soul-mate?
Anyone else notice a pattern with Goldman's posts?