Recent Entries in Miscellaneous
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Photo by author. Just days before Live 8, in late June of 2005, the inimitable John Carroll, Phillyist's first editor, let the world know that Phillyist was live and online. Now five years, six months, three days, and nearly 13,000 posts later, it is my official duty to provide one last post for Phillyist. We've already explained our reasons for shutting down, both on our site and on others, and this post is not...
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Thanks for Four Years of Awesome
It was a (presumably) cold November day in 2006 when I made my humble debut on Phillyist with a post called Elevating My Frustration. It was about elevator etiquette. I've come a long way since then. I featured interesting Twitter users and hope some of them will follow us into the future at @keypulp. I wrote not one but two posts on the mysterious Toynbee tiles. The local sleuths who spent years investigating them...
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Blogged Around Philly: Farewell Edition
Photo by Mikko Luntiala Who needs an RSS feed when you have us? The best from this week in the 215 blogosphere... Because this is the final installation of your local blog cheat sheet, we figured we'd make it a little longer, in order to include as many of the blogs we love as possible, and so that you can craft your very own Philly Google Reader of Awesomeness. There is never a shortage...
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Good Advice From a Bad Person
In which our Bad Person *tear* says goodbye.
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A Little Friendly Advice For Our South Philly Neighbors
As we make our way to work in the aftermath of yet another winter storm with no running buses, many of us will be digging out cars and braving the treacherous streets of Philadelphia. Later, upon returning home from work, far too many people will be faced with the reality that some a-hole stole their perfectly sculpted parking space during the day, forcing them to park presumably near the Sports Complex. But wait, says a...
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The 2011 State of the Union
Under normal circumstances, we here at Phillyist post a video each day that in some way pertains to Philadelphia or its surrounding area. Since all that's really going on today is snow, snow, freezing rain, and more snow, we're going to go national instead and share last night's State of the Union address in its entirety, in case you missed it or wish to argue with your computer monitor a little more. Whether you're Democrat,...
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Introducing ... KeyPulp!
As we teased on Twitter yesterday and revealed to Technically Philly this morning, January 31 is not the last you'll be seeing of the Phillyist editors and staff. True, Phillyist won't be updated after 5:00 p.m. next Monday, but, as that song we got stuck in your heads last week goes: "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." So, from the ashes of Phillyist rises a Phoenix we're pretty damn excited about:...
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En Garde!
This past Saturday, Penn hosted the Philadelphia Invitational, a season-opening men's and women's fencing event that saw fencing squads from schools such as Duke and UNC don their plastrons and knickers and do sabered battle in University City. Penn's men's team, ranked seventh nationally, was totally dominant. They went a perfect 6–0 on the day, only coming close to defeat against Duke. Here's a quick video recap with an interview with Penn junior Vidur Kapur....
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Singing Semisonic
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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Good Advice From a Bad Person
In which our Bad Person goes to the grocery store.
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Blogged Around Philly: Munching on Mustafa Edition
Photo by Flickr user Smudge 9000 Who needs an RSS feed when you have us? The best from this week in the 215 blogosphere... If noshing on entrails of your choosing during Restaurant Week is your idea of adventure, you'll like this story from Grub Street about a controversy brewing in Arizona around lion tacos. Grub Street recounts how a similar idea met its bitter end in Philadelphia. In case you didn't get your...
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Prepare to Be Self-Conscious Every Time You Speak for the Rest of the Day
Surrounded by it every day, we often forget that our region has a unique accent. It's not until it's blatantly pointed out that we realize we collectively over-emphasize long "O" vowel sounds and unnecessarily abbreviate syllables. Today's video is all about our accent. It's hilarious at first, but kind of sad by the end. Do we really say "wooder?"...
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And Now, For Something Completely Different
Due to a crippling shortage of local videos not focused on fires, murdered police officers, Glenn Beck, or abortion in today's internet, we've decided to run a campaign of visual distraction. May we present: a little girl and her dog. Some of you will like when she says "Go!" Others will enjoy when she cries "Bwaah!" No matter your preference, we here at Phillyist just ask that you don't break the replay button as you...
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Reforming Education, For Real This Time
For years upon years, the American education system has been in a rate of steady decline. Fewer students graduate high school per year as standards focus more and more on forcing knowledge of "basic skills" through the same old, non-engaging standardized testing scheme. For the last decade, Simon Hauger has been teaching math ans science at West Philadelphia High School. Upon realizing that the system itself wasn't changing on its own anytime soon, Hauger took...
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So This is What Lou Williams Does in His Free Time
Lou Williams, a point guard with the 76ers since the 2005-06 season, isn't what most people consider a star basketball player. A high school phenom who forewent college to enter the NBA Draft, Williams has been hovering between below average and average for the length of his career. In fact, a recent post on Liberty Ballers revealed that Williams somehow has the fourteenth-highest usage rate among NBA players. Simply put, usage rate measures a player's...
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