we just wanna say one thing

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

victory

Today was the Phillies victory parade. The streets were insane, the trains were insane, people were tearing down barricades, making garbage and playing with it. It was like an end of days celebration.

hausguests: dorothy

10/15/2008

hausguests: mia

10/15/2008

go phillies

celebration time

VICTORY

about boners

hausguests: dave

10/15/2008

hausguests: simon

10/15/2008

philly top five: pizza

5. Fishtown Pizza
They tell us Fishtown is no good for pizza so this place should have been a dead giveaway for a dud. How/why was this pizza so bad? It was like the shit at Chuck E. Cheese, Discovery Zone even (overcheesed+not cooked long enough=fatal)

4. The Pizza Shop
Favorite line from a review: "The pizza is horrible, but that's to be expected of almost every place in Fishtown, and the guy in there is always grumpy, but that's not a big deal." Overheard at the Pizza Shop: "Why don't youse guyse stops complainin?" We get pizza from this place: sometimes its hot (tonight's xtra large 4 example was delish), sometimes its not (Nikki caught a funky bite).

3. Father and Son's
This place and The Pizza Shop are kind of interchangeable, the slice is "good" but not "mama mia!" We put it at #3 because the name makes us think of Turgenev eating a cheesesteak.

2. Lorenzo's
Big, crispy (yet floppy) slices of providence. The perfect slice to fold and chomp. They have a lot of rules posted everywhere about how to order, gotta respect a pizza with standards. This place is so good because it isn't in Fishtown, it's on South Street.

1. Slice
South Philly real deal, thin slices, notably well-seasoned sauce. Lorenzo's is great, but its still NYC style. Slice is all Philly.

hausguests: erika

10/15/2008

sorry florida,

but I am currently consuming the last solid thing that I will ingest all day. 

Go phillies! 

hausguests: dana

10/15/2008

slow week

Today was my first time going to Cousin's, our neighborhood supermarket. On 5th & Berks, Cousin's is a nice bike ride away, made lovelier by the fall morning weather.

I found some of the things I needed, including vegetable oil, wheat bread, and black beans, but no Nutella. As I made my way down the cleaning supplies aisle towards the register, I noticed something strange: a tiny bird hopping from one dish soap to another as if trying to decide between them. "Hi! What are you doing here?" and then it flew away to what I think may have been the cookie aisle. Rude ass bird.

What did you want with soap anyway? And why didn't you take me with you?

thud

It's not funny when Nikki slams her face into things.

overheard @ CH

"all of a sudden everybody loooooves vodka water"

"i'll have just-water"

never ending supply of group pix

prevomit

hall of frienship

CROOKEDHAUSBLOG continues, even though it seems a little futile since approximately 97% of our readership is currently@crooked. Whatever. I love you, 3%.

1492-2008

sad day in history

end of days

dark sun, armless padi and bizarro lifeforms.

night travel

waiting for the EL,
spot a needle on the tracks
funny fishtown poem

R.I.P september transpass

overheard @ CH

"Nikki! Talk to me about the titties in Top Gun"