Dan McQuade of Philadelphia Will Do (maybe you've seen us mention him) has been assigned the enviable task of getting paid (by Vanity Fair!) to watch television for the next two weeks—specifically, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, which kick off tonight on various NBC networks. You can check out his blog, chronicling as much of the 3,600 hours of coverage as he can stand, right here.......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Mr. Philadelphia Will Do himself, Dan McQuade, submitted this gem from Mayor Nutter's itinerary from last Friday. Surely, a mayor with a new plan for public education (PDF) should hire......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: PW Writers: An evening with Writers from the Philadelphia Weekly at The Kelly Writers House (3805 Locust Walk), with Cassidy Hartman, Dan McQuade, Liz Spikol, & Steve Volk. Free at 6PM. Cereality Open Mic & Music: Open mic from 5-6 PM at Cereal Bar Cereality (3631 Walnut Street) followed by music from Naughty Naught Nurses, Girl Bike and Mother Mime. Free. The Pact: Reelblack is sponsoring the Philadelphia......

Dear Readers: Before we begin, we thought we should give a shout-out to Dan McQuade over at Philadelphia Will Do, because he so loves it when we talk about getting hit on (and because we haven’t indulged him in some time). Unfortunately for Dan and the other players of “The Phillyist Jill Ivey Game,” we weren’t the only ones getting hit on – our friends were getting plenty of lines, too. We just couldn’t hear......

Gonna find my blog, gonna hold it tight. Gonna grab some afternoon delight. My motto's always been; when it's right (you know, conservative), it's right. Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night to blog? (yeah, that doesn't rhyme) When everything's a little clearer in the light of day. And you know the night is always gonna be there any way. (We're just not trying any more) Blog rockets in flight. Afternoon delight.......

Hey, look, we're back visiting blogs! And we're linking to some of the same blogs! And some new blogs! Wowee! This blogging thing truly is going to change the world. >>> When the Kimmel Center blog launched, we were cynical and assholes about it (not that it's out of the norm for us), but it turns out that they're really into the blogging thing. Here's a post about Antony and the Johnsons. And Antony and......

We know it can be intimidating to step into that vast pool that is the Philadelphia blogosphere. Being the kind people we are, we'll do it for you. Here's a round-up of some of the things happening around the web: >>> If blogs could win Pulitzers, and if Pulitzers were awarded for getting leaked memos from the Inquirer and Daily News, then Dan McQuade just might win a Pulitzer. Or, maybe not. You never know......

We'd really like to write up a big piece on the Inquirer and Daily News buyouts that were announced today. OK, OK, we really don't want to write about the buyouts, but even if we did, there'd be no point: Dan McQuade at Philadelphia Will Do is all over it, like a blogger on Cindy Sheehan. It's a sordid tale of soon-to-be unemployed writers and soon-to-be-copy-editing again Amanda Bennetts. The Inquirer wants to lose 75......

We like to go and cruise that Information Superhighway from time to time. And when we're not doing that, we like to get sucked into the big black hole that is the Philadelphia Blogosphere. Here's the good, the bad and the Eskin for Friday, September 9th. >>> Remembering Dave Roberts: Even though Channel 6's Dave Roberts isn't dead (in fact, um, he's still on the air), the kind folks at Philadelphia's LiveJournal community are "fondly"......

Philadelphia Weekly has been stewing for months, wondering why they couldn't find the next Will Bunch. Or the next Dan Rubin. Or the next...Um, does City Paper have a blog? But there will be stew no more. Philadelphia Weekly, starved to be even more alternative, has gone out and joined that wild blogging craze by bringing Philadelphia blogger/writer/Randy Wolf-lookalike Dan McQuade on-board as the new staff blogger. The PW folks took McQuade's old blog, Philadelphia......