So, Louden’s all about Octonauts these days. As cartoons go, this one’s better than tolerable. Anyway, on Octonauts, they end each episode with a “Creature Report” about the underwater life-form with which they interacted. The educational moment of the show, in short. We watched one involving narwhals the other day (no plot spoilers). Here’s the…
I’m of a certain age that it felt like an extended friend died when Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys died last year. Which is to say it was heartwarming to see that the Brooklyn playground at which he got his feet under him as a youth was renamed in his honor this weekend.…
Or so says the videographer who captured a confrontation between lender and lendee on a North Philly block sometime recently. The Reader’s Digest version: Lendee maintains that he attempted to come to the lender’s place of bidness thrice in recent days. Lender. Ain’t. Havin’. It. And he employs a golf club in the discussion.
From “The World’s Most Powerful Hate Group: Why You Will End Up Watching Mayweather-Guerrero Tonight” … “… There’s no question that Floyd Mayweather has never been as vulnerable as he is tonight. He has been in a period of sustained decline for years punctuated by last year’s trip to the pokey, a stopover that has…
*In which I, in spare moments, search YouTube for “Philly” and grab five videos at random posted within the past 24 hours. 1. “What goes on in north philly.” 2. “PHILLY’S MISS SIERRA LEONE” 3. “CAMBODIA MUSIC ( SOUTHWEST PHILLY TEMPLE ) SOS MUCH IN PHILADELPHIA” 4. “North Philly handball game @ 5th & dauphin…
An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call the police, even anonymously. 3700. North Olmstead, Ohio. May 2. 15-year-old boy fatally struck by…
