Back in ’06, my work and non-work worlds collided when Robert Pierson, a 17-year-old from Fairmount (a neighborhood in Philly, for those out-of-towners) who used to hang out on my stoop from time to time, was gunned down a block…
Category: Philadelphia
Triple Update
Seems as if all three posts from yesterday — Jersey Shore in Sea Isle, Comcast having to give local sports up to DirecTV, Charlie Dawg — need updates. So here goes … 1) Jersey Shore ain’t going to Sea Isle.…
This Week’s Metro Column…
… can be found here. [H]ere’s how I interpret Comcast’s “no comment” approach to NBC’s Leno/O’Brien Diss Off: “This is what we’re loading up the Roberts’ Brinks Trucks for? Can we at least discuss backing out? Christ, even Carson’s old…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Frank the Entertainer Edition)
I just got done watching the latest episode of Frank the Entertainer in A Basement Affair. You know, the one about the guy who sucked New York’s toes moving 15 dames into his parents’ NY home in an attempt to…
My Favorite Stories
Back when I’d picked myself up off the brain-surgery ward and started to write again, I’d gotten a few emails asking how to find some stories I’d written before. Strangers wanted to know, which I considered complimentary, not rubbernecky. Initially,…
This Week’s Metro Column…
… is sure to win me some neighborly goodwill, I’m sure. But hey, I says what I mean and I mean what I says. Guess what, anonymous rat-fink neighbors: In eight decades, you’ll be remembered as classists from a holier-than-thou…
Weekend Reading Roundup (The Day After Edition)
Sorry for the delay with this. No excuse other than that I just didn’t get to it yesterday. Sue me. No, seriously, sue me. I’m getting bored ’round here. But enough about me. Onto the stories I noteworthied this week,…