“I was by myself. I just sat there, contemplating that. I called Margaret immediately and told her. She’s been helping me ever since. That was the beginning of it. It took me two or three days to get over the…
Ray Hudson is the voice that brings such epic celebratory awesomeness to many soccer goals and matches, but Lionel Messi’s in particular. Daisy Cutter is one of the best liquids in the history of humanity. He mentioned the term “Daisy…
Hi, all. I wrote a lot of stories for PhillyVoice this month. Here are my 12 favorites. Check them out if you’re so inclined! Thanks, people who blessed me with great advice to ignore the Mummers Tooth-fairy customs from across…
Have you been keeping up with my ‘Ask Hickey’ advice column? Yes? Good, I appreciate that very much. No? Well, here’s a link that will take you to the (as of this writing) 15 previous entries. We’ve covered everything from…
So as to ensure it didn’t get lost in the holiday-nobody’s-online scuffle, I’d like to repost a column I wrote on PhillyVoice in this space. It was about pickles, and how people who like pickles, which are abhorrent, are disgusting…
An interesting thing happened when I was wrapping up Quizzo night at Murphy’s last Tuesday. Namely, someone was sitting at the bar talking about how he had to rush home earlier that day because a pack of brawling kids was…
From my PhillyVoice story: When it came time for the bail-reduction conversation, the suspect’s sister Jacqueline Toro vouched for Rodriguez as “a wonderful person” whose been missed by nieces and nephews while incarcerated. He lashed out after someone “made a…
I went to Atlanta this weekend with the expressed purpose of FINALLY seeing Run the Jewels live. It was at the Project Pabst festival in East Atlanta. It rocked. Santigold and Mastodon were particularly good, but RTJ lived up to…
“Whenever somebody dies, people say that they were the greatest person ever, but Tom truly was that,” Porter Callanan said. “He was the nicest, funniest, smartest dude you’ll ever meet.” [PhillyVoice]
