My Sick Mind

The nitwit patrol is out in Trenton this week, and I was once again reminded why I don't watch local news. This one comes from nitwit #1, named L.A. Parker, who works (allegedly) for The Trentonian, one of the local rags that publishes bird cage liner in Trenton, New Jersey. To wit... TRENTON - Internet photos of a local school director who lives a second life as a biker chick for her boyfriend-boss are serving as eye candy for students under her supervision. Photos lingering on the World Wide Web of the 20-something Kelly Zimmerman, a former Titusville Academy teacher turned director of Lighthouse Academy in Ewing, show the hot divorcee in fine form and working a July crowd into a frenzy at Del’s July Fry in Englishtown. The adolescent boys at Lighthouse Academy - an institution that serves male students with social and emotional problems - could see Zimmerman in an entirely different light as she struts in her bikini and black heels or watches as other bikini babes show off. Che...

I know, it's a cheap rip-off of that Creedence song, but that's what the photo is, so give me a break. On my drive home from the gym, I listen to Kids Corner , the local public radio show that is supposed to be for kids (hence the name) but I find it kind of relaxing, and the music they play is a welcomed change from the adult-oriented-rock (the so-called AOR) that gets played on so-called adult radio. Kathy O'Connell (the host) had Derrick Pitts from the Franklin Institute's Fels Planetarium on the show, talking about the evening sky and which constellations we would see if we looked outside during the spring, which I hear is coming soon. They call it "Deep Space, with our Sky Guy Derrick Pitts". It's a kids show. He also told us that on a normal evening, approximately 10 objects enter the Earth's atmosphere and flash across the sky like meteors. If we look up, at any given moment, we have a pretty good chance of seeing something streaking across t...

I’ve realized what my perfect job would be. Writing advice columns with answers so obvious that my cat could think of them – and I’d get paid for it. In other words, telling you what you already know. On my 1040 form, under “occupation” it would read “Dispensing useless information.” Here’s the latest example from Yahoo, under the heading “ 10 Tips to Cut Car Costs .” It sounds like must-reading, right? After all, oil is at $105 a barrel, so we can all use some helpful tips. It's copyrighted by The Kiplinger Magazine editors - probably because it's so stupid that nobody at the office wanted to put their name on it. I couldn't resist - **click**. Buy a Used Car. Genius! Or, you could just keep your new car, since technically it’s used now. Buy a Sipper, Not a Guzzler. This one is particularly useful, since the writer figures that we don’t know that big cars generally get worse gas mileage than smaller ones. They even go so far to provide math... Drive 1,200 miles per mon...

I left one photo out of the group that I posted yesterday. This is Monk's , at 16 th and Spruce. There are at least 3 regular readers who are intimately familiar with this fine establishment. And no, I didn't go in. It was too early. If I had gone in, you never would have seen that nice shot of Rohm and Haas, which attracted attention from at least one person from the home office. Hi Pat, how are ya? First - turn off the lights, you'll save energy. Second - if there's anyone in there working after dark, send them home. It's a one-way street. You're getting rich off them, they're not getting rich off you. They have families and people to care for. Tonight , I watched a great performance that was largely overlooked by the greater movie-going public. It was probably overlooked because the greater movie-going public was not exposed to this film. Generally, we are exposed to junk like "Semi Pro" and "Be Kind Rewind" while great films li...

Lately, it's been Blogger Block around here, with nothing interesting to say, hence the weekend without a peep and the subsequent minor rant about the primary yesterday. I haven't been out with my new D40 on a real photo safari in a while, so on Monday night I decided to force myself to hang out in Philadelphia and wander around with the camera and my trusty mini tripod. The first thing that caught my eye was a flower bouquet herd at the Spruce Market on ... anyone ... Spruce Street. It's across the street from our Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the place the Philadelphia Orchestra calls home. This one took a few minutes to set up, and just as I was ready to push the button a van pulled up in front of me. This was location choice number two. The rap on the Kimmel Center is that it's a cold building with a glass roof that looks up into space. From the street it's difficult to know where the entrance is, and just as difficult to know if you should go near ...

Today's Jeopardy category: Desperation Answer: "For some people this election is about how you feel, it's about speeches," Hillary Clinton said. "Well, that's not what it's about for me. It's about solutions." Question: What does somebody say when they are not a good speaker? It sounds like Hillary is a little peeved about the Kennedy- esque traits being attributed to Senator Obama . It’s true, if not a little irritating, to hear people comparing his campaign to the hopeful (albeit naïve ) spirit of the 1960s-era John/Bobby Kennedy campaigns. I think it’s partly because people want to believe that he can change the world. Whether he can remains to be seen. My inherent cynicism is making me doubt it – just a little. It’s a nice idea though. It’s full of hope, and people need hope, especially when they don’t have much else. Gasoline prices are at record levels, the price of wheat is ready to jump so high that a simple sandwich will cost much ...