So there's the shot that goes with the story that interviewed myself, Chris Bowers and Hannah Miller.
I meant to get a picture of this up earlier, but I've been a busy fucker. I got back from doing some data stuff for the Pennacchio campaign a little after 1a. A writer from one of the local papers was there scoping out the campaign.
Photo: Young Kim/Daily News
**I should add that I hate getting my picture taken.
Those motherfuckers at Exxon Mobil just raked in $8B in profits for the first quarter of 2006. While it is down from their record breaking, afer record breaking quarters after Katrina hit, it's still fucking ridiculous.
£0.9613 per litre which equals $1.66 per litre.
1 gallon = 4.546 litres.
The Brits are paying $7.54 per gallon over there.
We're paying ~$3.
So this blog [well, the old address] is mentioned in a monthly law column put out by the Legal Intelligencer here in Philly. The column is about using immigration as a wedge issue backfiring, with unions and civil rights groups largely refusing to blame immigrants for hurting American workers.
Luke Debevec, the columnist, mentions my blog and the photos [part one, part two and part three] in the column. A bunch of lawyers may be crawling over the old TypePad site as I type. Got out of there just in time :)
Anyone know where I can pick up a copy of the Legal Intelligencer around town? Me not being a lawyer and all, I don't get it sent to my office.
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*Why is this all fucked up in MSIE?* fixed
TypePad is just blech. I'm annoyed at the lack of customizable features. I'm annoyed that I've had to manually ping Technorati after posts to be indexed [I just received an email stating that SixApart -parent company- has just enabled this on the backend]. I'm annoyed that I can't search my own damn blog via a dinky search box that indexes my own blog. I'm annoyed that I can't click from within a post and edit it or a comment on it. Instead, I have to fish through the TypPad admin UI and do it. I'm annoyed that there are so many cool things available in WordPress that aren't being rolled out in TypePad.
So, I'm moving to WordPress. I've already established a new blog and I'm fiddling with it right now. This TypePad account doesn't expire until sometime in the summer, but it'll serve as a redirect point [via links all over the place] to the new blog home.
I've loved tinkering with the functionality of WordPress on Messy and Picky [which is due for an upgrade from v1.5.2 to v2.0.2] and I've loved tinkering with the new site. Initial feedback from a few WordPress users and other people has been constructive and generally in the good column.
I think it'll be in a state ready to be fully public by the end of the week. A new link will be revealed.
Permalinks will die over the summer at some point. Links pointing within the blog to earlier entries will break too. Casualties in this upgrade I'm willing to make.
* I've moved!*
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Chuck Pennacchio will be on the PCNTV call-in program tonight from 7p – 8p. Find PCN on cable in your area. Here in Philly via Comcast it's on channel 63 and if you have digital cable channel 185.
The call in line: 877-726-5001
Ask Chuck why he's running.
Ask Chuck about where he stands on the issues.
Ask Chuck why he can beat Alan Sandals, Bob Casey and Sen. Man on Dog.
Ask Chuck how he plans to better Pennsylvania and the United States.
Ask Chuck how you can help.
Chuck will probably be somewhere near you [if you're in PA] sometime soon. Check the events schedule and see when you can meet him in person.
I always like strolling down the produce aisles. Bright colors of reds, oranges, greens on both sides. Bags of [hopefully] farm fresh goods for easy pickings. At Whole Foods on South St [and I presume elsewhere] they have an endcap with a stack of funky produce.
Last night, stacks of plantaines, persimons, star fruits, coconuts, jicamas and papayas were present.
Shooting under oddly flickering flourescent lights is always a pain.
Philadelphia has a shitload of murals, the people living here know that perfectly well. It's got a ton of inspirational ones with Paul Robeson, thriving communities, green gardens… And it also has some [or at least one] artsy morbid mural.
I spotted the mural above around 2nd & Race Sts a couple weekends ago and forgot to post it until now. It's in a parking lot on the side of a N-S street, I'm pretty sure it was 2nd St. You can't see the whole thing as you walk southbound. You initially see the stem of the roses, then the leaves, then the whole blooming rose. Then your eye is drawn further inward, deeper into the parking lot as you walk further south. You see the head of a black swan with a fiery red beak and matching eyes. You follow the gracefully curving neck to… a black-blooded stump. The black continues into the next frame where a lone white, dripping skull of what looks like a large non-domestic cat gazing to the east into the final surreal frame.
I was quite happy to find this mural as it presents a nice change of pace from the more realist murals around town. While a girl's arms sprouting into a leafy tree isn't exacty "real" a bodiless swan head and cat skull are a bit further along the way of nuttiness that I like.
