About a year ago, a dear childhood friend from New York called me and told me he was going to buy me dinner for my 60th birthday. Naturally, I assumed he was going to complete this transaction by visiting me in North Carolina. But I was wrong. His daughter had recently got engaged and their …
Check out the below video. It depicts life today on and around Kensington Avenue, the main drag of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood. Now check out this video. A local realtor gives us the skinny on Chestnut Hill, perhaps Philadelphia’s most sought-after neighborhood. Where to begin? Well, let’s begin with the obvious. Homeless people make horrible neighbors. …
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For twenty-one years I toiled at a sucky government job. Management cared more about enriching the coffers of the Republican Party than providing the taxpayers with great service. Union officials cared more about its members getting more pay than becoming more productive. And my typical co-worker cared more about dodging work than being a hero …
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I was a lazy shit this week. I had a bunch of posts in the hopper that were about halfway done, but I couldn’t muster the will to finish any of them. So rather than post nothing this week and leave my fans and groupies crestfallen, I decided to mail in a cheap update post. …
On November 15, 2017, I published a post questioning the merits of being a sports fan. It has turned out to be my most popular post by far. Right now it has 230 comments. The last one was submitted this past July—more than three and a half years after the post was published! That’s pretty …
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