That is really cool. Also makes me think of:

CORNERBOY(Imitating white tourist): Excuse me, young man? Could you tell me where the Poe house is?

His FRIEND: So what you tell 'em?

CORNERBOY: Dag, man,(Indicating beat-up rowhouses) look around.

I heard a joke that made me laugh more than it maybe should.

Q: What's the difference between Lawrence Welk and a moose?

A: On a moose, the asshole is in back and the horns are in front.

Hey ita, I'm watching Corwin's Quest on Animal Planet and he's in Kenya. The country is so beautiful.

Aimee has just made me hysterical.

Tht joke has made me laugh and laugh over the past few days

::switches to Animal Planet::

It's like reading reviews of movies you've already seen ... validation seeking? Wallowing in things that haven't even had time to become nostalgia yet? Dunno.

But thanks for the heads up, Eddie.

erika, HAH. Some of the touristy-famous places are in iffy neighborhood. Like the Babe Ruth museum.

I know the station does simulcasting over the web (I don't know about podcasting. Oh, they do for select stuff: [link] ) You'd probably like this show. It's pretty much random stories from around the area. It runs at 7 pm eastern on friday on WYPR .

So I have an etiquette question.

What do you do when you get invited to a big party at someone's house, and when you check the Evite for the directions, you realize that at the bottom it says, "$10 at the door".

t is boggled

Erm, unless you really really really want to go, you decline respectfully. And make appropriately aghast faces as you click the submit button.

What do you do when you get invited to a big party at someone's house, and when you check the Evite for the directions, you realize that at the bottom it says, "$10 at the door".

You realize you've been invited to an impromptu restaurant/club opening and decide you're not in the mood to patronize a commercial establishment.