Yes, Yes, Yes!! We are the champions! It took Philadelphia however many years are between 1983 and now, but the curse is dead. The Philadelphia Soul won the Whatever-It’s-Called Bowl maybe a couple days ago or whenever (I didn’t actually see the game… but I hear it was football related). This means that we proud Philadelphians are world champions in … [continue]
Philadelphia, PA - Receiving Me? is currently immersed in the long term process of a short-term business stimulus plan that includes a proposal to offer free gas to its loyal readership.
Readers will receive a $50 gas voucher if they can prove that they peruse Receiving Me? on a regular basis and actually enjoy doing so. This progressive … [continue]
Philadelphia, PA - Former Receiving Me? Editor and Chief, Bernard Bygott, will begin a new reign of terror over Receiving Me?’s vast corner of the blogosphere upon appropriation of reliable internet access. Over the past two months, loyal readers of Receiving Me? surely noticed several changes in the editorial standards and picturesque layout one comes to expect from a … [continue]
Philadelphia, PA – The house has been reserved and the rent paid. A trip to Wal-Mart has procured the requisite oversized towels and horseshoe set. Only one thing remains to be done before Joe Canella packs his bags and leaves for the South Jersey shore next weekend. He needs to lose 25 lbs and maybe tone up the guns … [continue]
Reflections on driving a cab. Waking up early, like 4 am, the city of Philadelphia and its surrounding environs have a quiet beauty, particularly some of the worst sections. The kind of surreal stillness that the city has between breaths, where just the bones are alive, all the human and automotive muscle stripped away, exposing just what’s left: the … [continue]
Philadelphia, PA - In a center city apartment a man sat quietly drinking beer and eating olives spiced with red pepper. He had already watched the total destruction of the Flyers at the hand of the Pittsburgh Penguins and was now watching Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. It’s a movie about shame and failure on a catastrophic … [continue]
I approach this article with extreme trepidation. Cautiously I peck at my keyboard knowing full well I have no right to be typing. Since the dawn of time, Athletic Support has been the domain of an intelligent and knowledgeable source of athletic wisdom known simply as Brett “The Hitman” Harsch; but due to unforeseen “work obligations”, Support has … [continue]
PHILADELPHIA, PA (April 29) - A civil suit against Democratic senator Barack Obama was filed today in a Philadelphia county court on behalf of the United States Aids Creation Guild (USACG). This comes in response to Mr. Obama’s “outrage and appall” at his former pastor’s words during a recent NAACP dinner in Detroit. As keynote speaker, Rev. Jeremiah Wright … [continue]
For the first time in what feels like eternity, the Sun peaked its face around some clouds this past week and introduced the people of Philadelphia once more to its gentle warmth and comforting embrace. Winter’s cold grasp and early Spring’s grey doldrums has departed for now and the evidence is everywhere. In South Philadelphia Old men and women sit … [continue]
