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The good news is that, after a day off, Twitterist is back. The bad news is, well, so is the rain. But that didn't keep Philly's Twitter community from pushing out those updates.

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Time Magazine is home to a colorful, if brief, story about a Philadelphia publishing house taking over a New York outfit—in 1941. The Philadelphia firm, J.B. Lippincott, has an interesting past (one of its previous presidents married the daughter of the man who founded the Wharton School of Business) and survives to this day, as Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.

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Recently my daughter showed up at our house, after a weekend with Mom-Mom, with her fingernails and toenails painted pink.

Film: The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman

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As a straight American man, I believe that the current ruling by California lawmakers to legalize gay marriage is a mistake that will ruin this great American nation of ours! Yet, as a straight American man, I am not allowed to disagree with what the liberal, New York, Hollywood, cheese-eating, French-speaking, Oprah Book Club Reading, media-istas say is acceptable.

Fortune cookie: Friday brings hope.

Not content to sit idly by while New York's elected leaders have all the illicit fun (albeit with a Jersey girl), Jersey's been brewing another scandal of its own. Remember how Jim McGreevey came out as a "gay American" and his wife purported to be as shocked as the rest of us? Well, it turns out that may have been just an act, because apparently she'd had three-ways with her husband and another man prior to moving into the governor's mansion. Yes, you heard right—the McGreeveys were allegedly getting it on with one of Mr. McGreevey's former aides, one Theodore Pedersen. Pedersen says he only had sex with Dina Matos McGreevey, who claimed she missed the signs that her husband was gay. We're wondering why the whole wanting to be naked with another man thing didn't tip her off.

This error, submitted to us by reader Brian, isn't exactly in Philly. But, as Brian said: "The reporter doesn't know where that is, either."

Most people, when finding out after surgery that their anesthesiologist had given them Sodium Pentathol prior to their operations because the doctors wanted "to find out something about the patient," and that as a result, they spoke for twelve minutes straight to the surgeons and scrub nurses, possibly revealing embarrassing or incriminating secrets about themselves, would have sued the hell out of the anesthesiologist, the surgeon, and the hospital.

Yesterday's ran a rather long piece called "How Do You Prove You're a Jew?", and while it may seem an unconventional topic for a manners column, I'd like to expound a bit upon it. Have no fear: even if you don't have the time or the inclination to read the original Gershom Gorenberg essay, I'm only using it as a jumping-off point for this column, and I promise not to allude to anything that would only be understood if you did read it.

The Sixers are still motoring along, posting a win over the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night (101-89), and fueling… playoff fever? We’ve felt this before, haven’t we Philly? Breathe through it. It’s not worth the morning after remorse. They’re not home again until March 7; hopefully they’ll keep up the winning away against Golden State (tonight 10:30PM), Phoenix (tomorrow 9PM), and the LA Clippers (Monday at 10:30PM); you can catch all on SportsNet.

Looking for something to do tonight? February boring you? Feel a primal need to fight the snow and the ice bearing down on our fair city? Check out The Bravery (with guests The Switches and Your Vegas) at the Fillmore at the TLA. No less than the Village Voice has proclaimed them 'New York's Next Big Thing' and the venerable Auntie Beeb called them 2005's (okay, we know it's 2008) most promising act.

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Often when Americans think of whom to vote for both in primaries and in presidential elections, we forget to consider the candidates’ lives before they were candidates. Here are some lesser-known bits about the presidential hopefuls:

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Here's hoping that on the next album and tour, she takes the Middle Way.

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After losing to the Knicks (81-89) on Friday and beating the Charlotte Bobcats away Saturday night (103-96), the Sixers hope to score big at home: seven of their next eight games are at the Wachovia Center. Catch them Wednesday battling the Milwaukee Bucks at 7PM (get tickets or watch).

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The PA Guv is meeting up with New York Senator and 2008 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at City Hall. The Inquirer reports that the 1:15pm meeting was added to her schedule late last night.

So, what is Cloverfield? Probably if you've watched the ads, you've thought of Godzilla, and although it certainly has a lot in common with that series, it also has elements of The Blair Witch Project. It's a monster movie, but told in a hyper-realistic way, from the point of view of the people on the streets who are running between the toes of the monster. Critics (well, the cut-rate ones, anyway) will often compare films to roller coasters in their reviews, but Cloverfield is one of the few movies I've seen that actually delivers a roller coaster-like experience. There were moments during the first half of this film when I was literally gasping for breath and clutching at my seat as I tried not to have a heart attack. It is intense, and the pseudo-first-person perspective only makes it more so.