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Thanks for stopping by Phillystine, my on-again, off-again personal blog.
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I heart my study
When you sign up to live in Fishtown, they throw in a study as part of the deal*. See this study? I’m sitting in it right now, studying, and I can feel myself getting smarter by the minute. Can’t you just feel the brainwaves oozing out of your monitor? *While supplies last. Study time is […]
I’ve been Googled!
I used to perceive webloggers as introverted, awkward geeks who never leave the house. After starting Good Grief!, however, I found the opposite to be true and met a lot of interesting, like-minded people, got Blankbabied (i.e., got a job lead based on this site), and met the guy I’m currently dating. The job story […]
Rodin and stuff
These dog days of summer are drawing to a close, and life is slowly returning to the normal routine of “doing stuff” instead of “packing stuff” and “unpacking stuff” and “having nervous breakdowns and stuff.” Last weekend I finally got to the Rodin Museum for the weekly 1 PM Sunday tour. Though Rodin had many […]
S-A-F-E-T-Y
‘Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance Well they’re no friends of mine It is time to put these outdated prejudices behind us. We must strive to embrace all of humanity–even those people who do not dance. It is not our place to judge, and we cannot truly understand those who do […]
Fishtown Crime Scene
So what does it mean when you arrive home on a dark and stormy night to find an apparent doll suicide in your back yard? The properties to the left and right are currently vacant, so this poor, plastic creature obviously jumped from the second story of the house behind me. UPDATE: Dan has provided […]
Max Raabe is coming to Philly!
Sherri W reminds us that the one and only Max Raabe will be performing at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center on Thursday, December 1st. It is a dream come true! Though we all fell in love with Max Raabe’s big band renditions of Oops, I Did it Again and Sex Bomb, I suspect that December’s show will […]