This Weekend: Cool Your Jets!

It’s Friday-like! My weekend should be one for the ages, including a Phillies game, a day trip to Delwur, some shopping with Moms, a literary magazine party (mmm-hmm-hmm-hmm), a lacrosse game, softball practice and some miscellaneously riotous fun.
But! As I prepare myself for my desk vacation, I need to say. Kids! Don’t lose your heads [...]

Mary Gets Tired, Writes About It

One or two of you readers has poked and prodded me recently. “WTF” you said, “Where did you go?”
I was here all along! Just busy, is all. This bee has been a-buzzing in myriad ways.
For instance!
I’ve had several bouts with The Two-Martini Curse, thereby falling asleep at Continental Midtown, L’Etage, Deuce, my house, your house, [...]

The Genesis of Kelliann’s

Walking home from work on Tuesday, I made a horrifying discovery:
Kelliann’s, second home to most West Philadelphians, provider of pitchers, hunting grounds for the occasional mistake, and the world’s most authentic anti-Cowboys forum, was sans liquor license. Out to lunch. Closed. No more. I freaked out good and proper.
Now, listen here: Kelliann’s cannot go.
Where else [...]