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 Hickey Endorsement: Afghan Star
If I were you, and had a spare hour and a half, I’d watch this HBO doc. Puts fame hunger in an entirely different frame. Bonus: You get to see this dude Rafi … … ride these lyrics … May…
Why America has a World Cup chance…
If Clint Dempsey can do stuff like what he did in this video … … all my Argentina bets are off. Sweet Jebus, what a sweet manipulation of physics.
Go (away), 76ers
Say you own a professional basketball team in a pretty passionate sports town. Then, say a league insider says something like this about your team: A Western Conference scout on Philadelphia, which has lost 12 of 14: “They are having…
“Around here, between Normandy and Western, we call this a little twenty twen twen.”
Excellent piece in the Rolling Stone with Jimi Hendrix on the cover about the $14 billion weed industry back in Cali, Cali. But since they didn’t see fit to link to the story itself on their website (even for print…
Hit-and-Run America XXIX
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…
My pal Heidi went to Plastic Surgery Island …
… and all she got was this lousy cancellation notice. MTV’s hit series “The Hills” is coming to an end after one more season. The network said Thursday the sixth and last season of the popular reality soap will begin…
The worst part about Vegas …
… was hearing Khia’s “My Neck, My Back (Lick It)” the first night. Not that it’s a bad song. It’s actually great. Just that it probably wasn’t the best thing to be walking around singing for the next three days.…
FlashBackward
I never really wanted to wade into this whole Philly flash-mob thing. But then Judge Kevin Dougherty earned my rarely awarded “he’s the fucking man” award for raining justice down upon lying punks’ heads, before two additional things happened that…