From northernliberties.org:

From noon to 4pm… Rustica thanks it’s customers with a 5th anniversary picnic! Free beer from the generous folks at Yards, free food from Rustica, DJ and a face painter for the kids.

Liberty Lands is on 3rd, north of Spring Garden.

I believe the official term now is “Dooced”, but Jessa of Jessaisms is now down a job.

Her official statement is “i got fired from a museum in Philly because of this blog.”
The blog itself is being pulled down under threat of legal action. (How lame is that?)

I caught this news in a post at Blogebrity and actually got upset. Why should a blogger who writes in their own time on their own internet connection without violating any laws (HIPPA, Doctor - patient privilege, Lawyer - client privilege) or legal contracts they signed lose their job for drinking on weekends? Or talking about loving their job?
I don’t know.

Also, can we have a collective BOO for the museum who ditched a scientist because of a personal hobby?

I’ve read the book and I plan on seeing the movie (Saturday 1:15PM) but I am pretty sure I can’t say the same about the people outside the theatre I went to tonight. Outside the entrance to the Oxford Valley Mall there was a good deal of people protesting the movie. Saying how the film was the devil’s work. I plan on going back tomorrow and taking some pictures and ask some questions if they are still there. Seriously there was a guy out there with a giant cross proclaiming the film evil. Anyone go and see the film tonight? Anyone run into any protesters?

I don’t get out to City Line Ave. very often, but I don’t know how I missed the news that they were ripping down the Adam’s Mark Hotel. I headed out that way tonight to go to an info session for the Master’s program I’m applying to, and as I drove by, I realized that the Adam’s Mark was almost completely demolished. It looks like a big, empty honey comb right now.

I’ve never loved that building, I’ve always thought it looked a bit dated and odd, not all that in sync with it’s surroundings. But I felt affection for it because of it’s oddness, and for the fact that they were always holding sales of leather and bad art there. I’m feeling a little tug that it’s familiar shape will no longer be a landmark on City Line Ave.

When demolition is completed, they will start construction on a new Target, slated to open in Spring 2007.

If anyone has pictures of the half demolished building, please add them to our flickr pool, because it does look cool right now.

I’d meant to post this earlier: tonight is the first of Philadanco’s five spring performances at the Kimmel. The program—four pieces in all—features two different world premieres.

The Kimmel’s blog describe the pieces thus:

In Love Stories, choreographer Carmen de Lavallade uses the music of Billie Holliday to celebrate the search for love and for a happy ending. Cottonwool is a world premiere performance of a work by choreographer Christopher Huggins. This ballet deals with the premise of going beyond our limits. In life sometimes we go too far with the hopes of landing softly–like on cottonwool.

Alas, tonight’s show started a half hour ago, which means my helpful reminder is coming not-so-helpfully late.

But there are still four of five performances available: 80% of the company’s run.

Image source: Philadanco.

Around 12th and Spruce (mostly up 12th st. and down Spruce some) someone has fliered telephone poles with papers that read “Pat Sajak is Dead” or something to that effect. They then go into detail about how the Wheel of Fortune host died Monday from complications in a Gall Bladder surgery. My girlfriend and I were shocked and as we ate breakfast at the Reading Terminal, we began to ponder if he had really died. Searching Google, news sites, and patsajak.com revealed nothing about his death.

What kind of weirdo has this much time on his hands?

Well, despite my predictions to the contrary, it turns out I lucked into one of those Camden Blogger’s Weekend Passes after all! This officially completes my shift from “lonely-weekend-alone” (Matt’s going to be travelling) to a weekend almost over-full with social options.

As I look ahead, I’m most concerned about my chances to make it to a Riversharks game. That’s a shame, ‘cos I’ve enjoyed the games I attended in past seasons, and I’d already been talking to Matt and my friend Laurie about going some time during this summer. So wouldn’t it have been great, I ask you, to follow through on that idea for free? Alas, my Phillies-RedSox tix and my intense interest in the Kimmel organ Pay-to-Play event create time conflicts with all three Riversharks games held this weekend. I guess it’s back to my original plan of picking a game and buying a ticket.

But both the Adventure Aquarium and the Battleship New Jersey open bright and early, making it possible to visit them before my other engagements. I am happy to report as well that the Battleship New Jersey has a news item on their site about this event. A tip of the hat to them for being the first of the Camden orgs to do this.

Image source: Battleship New Jersey.

I love The Amazing Race. I love the competition and the failure. Two seasons ago I cheered for Rob and Amber to win the race (they came in second), this season I hitched my support onto a team known as “The Hippies”. This team had a local connection that I knew nothing about until about halfway through the season, B.J. Averell hails from Collingswood, NJ. Now you all know my utter dislike for the communist state of New Jersey and my geography concerning said communist state is limited to the shore points and Camden so I had to look up where Collingswood is. Surprisingly (to me at least) it’s not to far from the lawless city of Camden. Now that B.J. is the proud winner of half of The Amazing Race prize (he split it with his team partner Tyler MacNiven) I invite him to move across the border (don’t worry B.J. President Bush isn’t fortifying the NJ border with National Guard). The next season of The Amazing Race will air next fall on Sunday’s on CBS.

I eat on SEPTA buses.
Not, you know, get on with a candy bar and chill in the corner type eating. Not even granola bars. No…I take full meals requiring forks on the bus. In the past week, I have eaten cereal with milk (from my own plastic bowl) as well as grilled cheese with fries and a salad that I mixed on the bus. I take sandwiches and soup sometimes, too.

The main reason I don’t feel too guilty about any of that is because I don’t spill, leave trash behind, or get food on anyone else. It’s my food, and it stays in my lap. Mostly. (I did overturn a bowl of cereal into my purse once.)

The other reason I don’t feel so guilty is because the new SEPTA buses don’t seem to have signs saying “No eating, No drinking, No smoking”. The only rule seems to be “Don’t crowd the front aisle”, which I am totally chill with.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a pizza being delivered to the 57 stop…

That’s where AutoVantage ranked Philadelphia drivers amongst their road rage rankings that were released today. 10th place is all we could muster. Come on Philadelphia, we deserve to be higher ranked. We’re going to let the likes of Miami, Boston, LA, New York and Phoenix place higher than us. Phoenix? Are you kidding me? What the hell do they have to be mad about other than the 120-degree heat? So Philadelphia drivers get that middle finger going, drive more angry and notch us up a few spots for next year’s rankings.