Philadelphia

Brian has asked me to at times do my best to give small windows about the Philadelphia community. While i am a southerner at heart, and will always be, living here has given me new sights to unique communities. This is a rare area, a big city, blue collared, and deeply angry about something. You know those acquaintences/friends that you have that no matter how serious and tragic the situation in your life is,and they can only talk about themselves? You can be talking about how your parent just died, and they cut you off saying "I don't know what i'm going to do for vacation this year, i mean it's such a big decision." Well, thats Philly. This city believes it's on par with New York, Washington, Boston...but deep down, it knows its getting the shaft-- and they are pissed about it! They take out their frustration in multiple ways, regularly noticible in the news.

Here is my example from last night, the local news sports segment, this is how they spent their 5 minutes: 30 seconds of Phillies highlights and 4 minutes and 30 seconds reading excerpts from Terrell Owens new book entitled 'T.O.'--the sports anchor tried to make a case that the book was absurd and not worth reading at all. I thought it quite funny, that as he was pleading fans not to read it....he was reading it. Then in passing remarks as he turns back to the 'anchorman' says "Oh yeah, and France won the world Cup game today and I think that puts them in the finals."

Now you don't have to love sports at all, in fact you can hate passionately hate soccer, and still you know with me that the WORLD CUP semifinal result is a bit more important than an ex-philadelphia eagle's new book...am I alone on this? Remember Paul Rudd's character in 'The 40 year old Virgin'? His girlfriend had broken up with him 2 years ago and he still daily talked obsessently about her, it drove everyone around him crazy. Well, Paul Rudd's character...That's Philadelphia!