I would like to think that Pennsylvania would be the state to think of a bill to protect America from zombies:
P.S. Apparently this video’s been fooling some people. Don’t be alarmed, it’s from The Onion.
Archive | July 2010
Dear Tea Party,
Please start googling things before you go public with them. First you made me have to explain to my mother what a “teabagger” is (I will never forgive you for that, by the way). Now you’re stealing slogans from 4chan?
Come on, guys. Research is your friend.
UPenn is the 9th best hospital in America
According to this list of 2010-11 Best Hospitals rankings.
Some links to make work a little better…
The Smoking Gun has a collection of stories of New Jersey Turnpike workers going crazy…
An Atlantic City woman’s life is saved when her fat stops a bullet.
See, Philly? Not every flash mob has to be violent. Some can be fantastic and nerdy.
Speaking of unicorns, here’s some fantastic, nerdy My Little Pony mods.
Speaking of sci fi…
I’m a day late and a dollar short on this one, but hopefully all you Philly geeks out there got to enjoy the Vader Project while it was in town. The auction featured different artists creating their version of the iconic Darth Vader helmet. It’s over now, but the pictures on the website are worth a look.
Metropolis re-release
Fans of old cinema should rejoice, as Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 film Metropolis is being re-released in theaters this year.
I for one am very excited about this. I remember the first time I ever saw this movie. My mother had bought it on DVD – one of the first my family owned – and I, a jaded pre-teen, had complained about having to watch a subtitled black and white silent movie.
Within ten minutes my jaw was on the floor. Go see this movie. It is not only visually stunning – I’d say it can still hold its own when compared to modern films – but it is one of the greatest science fiction stories ever made.
It will get to Philadelphia on July 23rd, at the Landmark Ritz at the Bourse.
Philadelphia: Not America’s Drunkest City
This is a bit of old news I just found, but Men’s Health magazine published a list of the drunkest cities in America back in March. The list was compiled by looking at statistics of all the negative things associated with drinking – specifically “rates from alcoholic liver disease, booze-fueled car crashes, frequency of binge-drinking in the past month, number of DUI arrests, and severity of DUI penalties.”
Philadelphia comes in at #89 out of 100 (making us less drunk than Pittsburgh, which ranked #59).
Well done, Philadelphia! I think coming in that low deserves a round of applause. Or, perhaps, a beer.
