Mounds Of Happiness, Joy, Terror & Destruction!

Where do I start?

THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES HAVE WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!

A day many thought would NEVER ever come has finally blessed this city! Everyone's spirits were dim because of the rain delay, but I have to say that I never lost hope. Something inside of me (that usually takes the pessimistic route) strangely remained...optimistic. I can't say what it was. Perhaps their consistent amazing offense and defense. Perhaps it was bad calls that continued to go our way? Or perhaps it was the fact that I've basically been drunk for 9 straight days.... I was looking forward to running to broad street. And I did.

In the bottom of the ninth the Phillies were up one point. And slowly with every out I put one more outside article on my body. With 2 outs and 2 strikes down I had everything ready..my shoes were on, an extra sweatshirt, scarves and my winter coat were on. Then It Happened.

I can't even tell you if I remember what the last play looked like on television except from what I've seen in pictures and from the replays, because as soon as I saw that last out everything went off in my apartment and I was headed towards broad! Yelling and screaming down market as buses and cab drivers were honking their horns... it was incredible.

But nothing was as incredible as what I witnessed on Broad street last night. Coming around the bend by City Hall off of market making my way to South Broad was amazing. The sound of the crowd just echoed down the streets. Here are a few pictures I took of the rowdiness. Mind you, I left before cars were turned and stores were broken into.


My temporary view standing on the wall of Banana Republic


Drunken Fool 1 of 275438041239


Fireworks in the street!


Random fire 1 of 23847230 (note, number is smaller than number of fools)


Morning after on my walk to work...Love Park fountain is now clad with park benches and trashcans


One of the front windows of Robinson's Luggage that was destroyed last night (after I left the area)



Poor guy.

Everybody says Phillies fans can't enjoy anything and that we don't deserve this parade tomorrow but you know what, screw that. I was a part of history and I'm sure as hell I will never experience anything like this for a long time. Eagles, anyone?

While I'm sure everyone has seen their share of pictures and videos from last night, here are links to MORE!

via CNN's front page (nice job, Philly!) http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-129498

phila weekly http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/?inc=vid&id=1421174

Phillies Win, Comcast FAILS.

Last night watching game 3 of the World Series, Comcast was not so Comcastic...

Around midnight the picture started to get a little pixelated and the sound started dropping out. No biggie...Comcast does that all the time. I gave up completely on trying to watch SNL because a cast member would deliver a joke and the punchline was dropped because the screen froze and/or the audio failed. Again, no big deal...I can watch it tomorrow on Hulu.com (However I just read that it was announced last night during the Weekend Update that Amy Poehler FINALLY POPPED last night and gave birth to Archie Arnett. Thank you Comcast.)

BUT THEN the unspeakable.

The entire channel went to black. Hindsight the lost picture was only out for about 15-20 minutes. But sitting on Twitter I knew that my TV wasn't the only one vomiting on itself, and that because of the missing picture, I had then missed the 2 biggest plays in the game: Chase Utley and Ryan Howard's back to back homeruns. Perfect. Awesome! Great. The most exciting part of the game was now lost in the universe because I couldn't see it on my television. I can only imagine what kind of histeria ensued at all the bars last night at that moment, but I'll leave that to imagination.

So after a little while the picture came back and everything was back to normal. Everything, that is, except Comcast customers taste for their cable service going completely sour. Not a good time for an epic fail on their part with the entire city watching the same channel. I googled 'comcast world series' this morning and dug up this article , with a quoted apology from Comcast spokesperson Jeff something or other:

" A little before midnight we detected a equipment failure that resulted in disruption to most standard definition broadcast channels, including FOX. The issue was detected immediately by our internal monitoring tools. However, it took anywhere from 15 to 25 minutes to restore.

We sincerely apologize to our customers and know many of them were watching the World Series"

So today, as I watch game four and longingly look at the Verizon building from my window that doesn't provide FIOS to this part (or any part?) of the city, I'll be crossing my fingers that the picture doesn't go out. But if it does, I'll remember that they will sincerely apologize for it tomorrow.

Intruder Beats, Stabs TV News Anchor

"An intruder beat and stabbed a popular TV anchorwoman in her home during a possible robbery, and left her with life-threatening injuries, police said Monday."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/20/tv.anchor.attack.ap/index.html


Smell the next episode of Law and Order, anybody?

This Is SNL Soaking Up Ratings While They Still Can

Did you happen to catch Sarah Palin LIVE from New York on Saturday Night? Well if your taste is anything like mine a) Her maybe existing sense of humor still won't change the fact that this woman is a shrew and b) Everything about it made you uncomfortable.

SARAH PALIN THIS DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING!

But lets dole out the obvious applause to Tina Fey's spot on performance of Sarah Palin yet again (THIS will also make you die of laughter, Tina Fey explains how she figured out her impression of Gov Palin. "PAULA'S SLEEPUHN!")



My next question is: When is Amy Poehler gonna pop?

THE PHILLIES TAKE THE PENNANT!

Well, last night they did.

Parties in the streets, honking, drinking, bells, boobs and screaming! Oh to be a Phillies fan right now. Oh to be a bandwagon fan right now! Oh to live in Philadelphia right now!

Good Luck in the World Series!

10 Reasons Why John McCain Should Not Be President.

1. If John McCain died in office, Sarah Palin would become President.
How long has it been now since the Vice Presidential candidates were announced? Well, count those days and weeks and that's how long I've cared about this election. Previously, I could give two shits in a Rumpelstiltskin outfit handing out candies who was running for president. Now I'd like to thank Sarah Palin herself, her in her Tina Fey glasses, for pissing me off so much that I feel the need to vote NOT BECAUSE I care anything about the Democratic party winning this election, but because I feel so deeply inside my soul and bones that Sarah Palin does not deserve it.

2. John McCain is already the “After” picture.
You’ve seen the before and after pictures of all the presidents of the United States. How young, buff and hunky they looked prior to their stay in office, and then how terrible they looked after! The zinger right here is that John McCain ALREADY LOOKS LIKE THE AFTER. You can’t elect a man who ALREADY, no stay in the oval office yet, looks like he’s too stressed/fragile/at risk of a heart attack/prone to death over something like too much variety and anxiety over what to pick off of the Wendy’s dollar menu.

3. John McCain opposes women’s rights.
If John McCain were President, women would lose their right to choose. Whether if it’s deciding if Lifetime really is television for women, what shoes to wear with this shirt, or whether or not she wants to have this child…John McCain does not want women to have this right. He would rather tack up women's choices on a wall on index cards, pour a beer in a whiffle bat, chug that beer, spin around in a circle ten times, run towards the direction of said wall, and make his choice by whichever index card his forehead slammed into first.

4. John McCain can’t lift his hands above his shoulders.
In a time of joy and victory... what do we, as Americans tend to do to symbolize this? WE HIGH FIVE! As President, John McCain would only be able to give you a middle five. Do you want a President who is only capable of giving middle fives? What does that say about you, about your country? America! Home of the apple pie, baseball and childhood obesity, does NOT deserve a middle five!

5. If John McCain died in office, Sarah Palin would become President.
Could you honestly say that you wouldn't be frightened if this woman was in the White House? She lets her children LICK each other! IN PUBLIC.

6. John McCain divorced his former super model wife [AFTER…he had relations with another woman] when he saw that she was ugly as a result of a serious car accident.
I do believe this act would have earned him a supporting role and then killed in the film ‘Seven’. “What’s in the booooooooooooox???”

7. John McCain has no idea how many homes he has.
If John McCain has no idea how many homes he has, how on earth is he able to maintain the interests 300 plus million people? Hm? Hello? Anyone? What this is, folks, is not a sign of just another politician who wants this position for himself and not for the betterment of our country…but a sign of early but most likely advanced Alzheimer’s. John McCain does not know where he is. John McCain does not know he is John McCain. John McCain would rather be eating cereal from a high chair dangling his legs over the edge in his onesies with the rubber soles that prevent him from slipping on slippery surfaces watching Spongebob Squarepants.

8. If John McCain died in office.... Sarah Palin......... would become President.....
Is this sinking in to ANYONE yet?

9. IF JOHN MCCAIN DIED IN OFFICE SARAH PALIN WOULD BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WOULD HAVE COMPLETE RULE OVER EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE AND TAKE ALL OF YOUR RIGHTS AWAY!
http://palinaspresident.com/
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10. John McCain supports rabid kangaroo boxing and paving over cabbage patch kids farms and selling land to chain grocery stores like ACME and Giant.
Or I just wanted something to round out an even 10. Either way, COULD YOU IMAGINE?

Be wise when it comes to who you vote for this election. Don't be stupid and vote for the party of the woman who may or may not have been the voice of Martha Generic aka Bobby's mom from Bobby's world.

Thank you.

Now with that, I'm going to step off and take a nice bresh of freath air and enjoy this warm autumn night.

Janet Jackson Left Me A Message On My Phone Tonight.

She told me how excited she was to start her tour back up tomorrow night in DC, and to not believe anything I hear or read because nothing is cancelled!

I don't know if I believe her.

New Eargasms: Ingrid Michaelson, Vampire Weekend & Nickel Creek (what?)

For the second week in a row, I am pleased to say that my ears are STILL PLEASED with what they're hearing lately! (Despite my heart being broken/crushed/destroyed with no word of explanation, ahem)

ANYWAY! Who would have ever thought that there could be something(s) so soon that would be able to rip me away from my beloved Foreign Exchange's recent album (see post below)? Not me! And there are! THREE!

Let us begin.

As it is already known, I am a huge Ingrid Michaelson fan. After finding her around 6 months ago, I still can't stop playing her songs on repeat. And to make my fandom of hers rise even higher on this make believe chart I just created, she has finally joined, follows AND replies to her fans on Twitter! So if you haven't already...

Today she released her third album entitled "Be OK"



...which some of the proceeds go to breast cancer "SO NO STEALING" -her website. (Oh that's why I can't find it on Limewire). I'm ultra excited that she has finally put up The Chain on this album because every time I hear it my legs give out and I want to lay down and cry. Perfect walking to work at 7 in the morning music if you ask me!


Next up, I introduce (or re-intro to others) to you, Vampire Weekend. I don't get to listen to the radio too much anymore, but when I do I flip around to whatever station comes through until something happens to catch my ear. And the other day, that station happened to be XPN, and that song happened to be Ottoman, by Vampire Weekend.



This song is set to appear on Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (which is already out....?) and I can't get enough. This group formed sometime in 2006 at Columbia U, have a couple albums, and describes themselves as rock alternative with afropop influences. Crazy mix eh, but they're a great listen. Do explore.


AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST! (But certainly least expected)

I just want to put out there how after putting my entire playlist of 4k + songs on random this past weekend, up comes Nickel Creek's "Green and Grey"



I've known them as always killing my soul with songs like The Lighthouse's Tale and When You Come Back Down but, I never really paid too much attention to their others. However when you get a song whose very first line is: "I'm in a room full of people and hanging on one person's breath..." how could you not help but collapse to the ground and keep pressing pay over and over again? Well that's exactly what this song did to me, almost 3 years after it was initially released, ha!

Old music is new music sometimes and that's alright with me!

I hope you take these delicious mix of songs and add them on your "I really need to stop playing these" playlist because eventually, you really will need to...you know, to give others a chance.

New Eargasms: Rachael Yamagata & The Foreign Exchange

After FOUR PAINSTAKING LONG YEARS (on both sides, mind you) one of my top favorite artists evar released their newest and 2nd albums today. Yes, both of them their second and both on the same day!

Today October 7th 2008 The Foreign Exchange Released their second installment:

Leave It All Behind



Only after a first listen, its everything you can expect from it. The sweet sounds of Darien Brockington harmonizing mixed with excellent electronics and beats. Also a new voice comes along for the ride, one named Muhsinah. I know nothing about her, though over the next few days I plan to be listening to this one A LOT and researching everything I can on every single aspect of every song. I'm positive it won't be a let down, as it's got me hooked in only a matter of seconds.




Also on this unknowingly magical day, Rachael Yamagata also released her sophomore album entitled:

Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart



Since going to a few of her concerts, a few of these tracks aren't unfamiliar to me. Nevertheless, her raspy voice still grabs my heart the same as the last. Like the previous paragraph, I haven't gotten through the entire thing backwards and forwards yet, but I am excited for it's potential. Something different than the last, especially because of the track called "Faster". Completely rocker chick with it. Let me tell you it's just as awesome here recorded as it is live.

Now let me get back to it! I'll have some reviews in a few. In the meantime, don't watch the debate. Find something else to do instead. Unless of course, you're an undecided voter. But in that case, do not vote for McCain and SheBush because in all honesty if you do, you're an idiot.

Sarah Palin Is An Idiot!

Stumbled on this great blog titled Sarah Palin is an idiot! that exploits well no...shows the veil of truthiness that IS the crazed rabbit, Sarah Palin.

I hate her.

Anyway,

After the debates I couldn't really tell who came out as a real "winner", despite how CNN's voice ticker thing tried to help? Turned out to only be a distraction in the end. However, I do think it's entertaining how Sarah Palin and her "camp" consider that debate a victory. Victory? Just because she didn't fumble over her words and maybe answered ONE or TWO questions directly is a VICTORY? Jesus anyone really can be Vice President!

I do believe she even threw a sentence out there of "just because I'm not answering the questions the way you want me to..." ..WHAT!?! The way WHO wants you to? You get a question and you answer it with the truth and preferably without a Martha Generic accent. I also thought it was pretty tacky and ridiculous to give her brother's 3rd grade class a "shout out" and "extra credit for watching!" Wtf this is not MTV TRL, if that was the case HER ASS would have been canceled a week ago.

30 days...30 days...

Stare Too Long And It'll Make Ya Dizzy!

Keep up with all the Twitter comments out there tonight on the VP Debate on Twitter's Election 2008.

Like I said, stare too long and it'll make ya dizzy! And laugh!

http://election.twitter.com/

This Will Surely Be Picked Up As A Primetime Comedy

Don't forget to tune in tonight to the circus show that will be the vice presidential debates. No one cares what Joe Biden has to say. Frankly, I could care less if the camera even points at him or if the man even SPEAKS! Well, maybe just a bit to see his facial reactions to the horseshit that will surely come out of Sarah Palin's mouth.

If I'm feeling up to it later tonight (assuming I'm not too drunk to misspell things) I'll try and post a little something on the aftermath. For my own good of course, because we all know ...

THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING! THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING!

Go Phillies!