Monthly Archives: April 2008

• Check out my latest post on Kerri Lee’s blog. This one’s about strange festivals in May.
• Quick note to Chet Bumstead: If I am flirting with a couple of cute girls after quizzo at the Bards, please don’t don’t grab my ass and scream “Come on honey, I’m ovulating.” It really hurts my already very, very weak game.
• First the questionable goal, then the questionable penalty call. Did the Flyers get hosed last night?
• Let’s Go Sixers! I’m actually gonna be at the game tonight (My first ever NBA playoff game). Look for me on tv. I’ll be the guy whose seat is about 200 yards from the court. Still, it should be a blast.

Johnny’s good friend and occasional co-host (as well as Philly’s official Queen of Beer) the Lovely Ginger turns 30 today. That’s right 30. Girl, you’ll be a woman soon! Anyways, if you wanna wish Ginger (aka Suzanne Woods) a Happy Birthday, hit her up at Myspace. And if you wanna wish her a happy b-day in person, she’ll be holding court at Jose Pistollas between 6-8 p.m.

The world is a strange place, people. I’m going to be a contributing blogger at Kerri-Lee’s blog over the next few weeks, and I posted my first bit today. I met Kerri Lee yesterday and all she talked about was how much she loves D-Mac. Does that mean I can convince Kerri-Lee to join me, D-Mac, and the gang for a little American Gladiator viewing starting next month? Of course not. She has better sense than that. But due to a momentary lapse of reason she has allowed me to blog on her site, and it should be fun.

Wawa is leaving the city. The Wawa at the corner of 20th and Chestnut is going to be closing at the end of the month, and I have it on good authority that the others will close when their leases expire. Which means that a) they are turning their backs on some of their most loyal customers and that b) the spokewoman I spoke with a couple of months ago when I did a story on the Rittenhouse Wawa was less than truthful with me and in, turn, Philadelphians when she said that they weren’t leaving the city.

“This is not the beginning of a pullout of Center City Wawa’s,” said Bruce, who disputes rumors that the company is focusing on building Super Wawas, which are larger and include gas pumps. -Philadelphia Metro 2/27/2008

Really? Six of ten pulling out of Center City since 2000 and no new ones being built is not a “pullout”? (I guess technically she is correct, since the pullout began in 2000.) I will never eat at a Wawa in the burbs or get gas from one, and I highly encourage you to do the same. Screw Wawa. We in Center City have loyally supported them for years, and they return the favor by dumping us and lying to us while doing so. P.S. I say this not because I hate Wawa but because I have come to really love it and depend on it and I am sad and frustrated to see it go, especially this way.

Dunno if you are familiar with the Johnny Cash song “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town”. Amazing song. Anyways, I was just tooling around on Youtube and discovered the above gem.

Press release I received this morning:

April 22, 2008 (PHILADELPHIA)- The City of Brotherly Love can now be known as the City of Mallardly Love thanks to the efforts of the Shut the Duck Up! Campaign. Their endeavors to muffle the noisy vehicles of the Philadelphia Ride the Duck Tour Company are helping more city residents than merely offended pedestrians.

Shut The Duck Up! are the sole activist group in Philadelphia concerned with the safety of local ducks and neighborhoods effected by the ignorant oversights of the Philadelphia Ride the Duck Tour Company. Their mission statement resolves to earn the respect from the Ride the Duck Company and to work towards a symbiotic relationship between the Tour Company and all residents of Philadelphia, fowl or friend.
PREVIOUSLY: Shut the Duck Up Video.