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.......

This week, we bring you the buzz from ONE 215 blog... namely, Philadelphia Will Do. We've featured PWD in Blogged Around Philly on numerous occasions because, hey, we often like what editor Daniel McQuade has to say. But this time he basically said this Phillyist is a whiny elitist. That's right: the unattributed chicken wing quote was courtesy of yours truly. The chicken wings in question were served at a Yelp Elite event at the......

We bring you the buzz in the 215 blogs this week. Philebrity found fault with local columnist/DJ/man-about-town A.D. Amorosi's grammar and punctuation skills. For the record, this Phillyist is horrified, too. No more privately-owned cars on our potholed streets? Philadelphia Will Do isn't so sure about that. We're as flummoxed as Phillybits about the whole feminist terrorist thing. And who knew raising kids was a form of jihad? That sort of takes the whole concept......

Philebrity applauded the installation of solar panels at the Philadelphia Naval Yard while simultaneously making fun of Naval Yard denizen Urban Outfitters. Maybe next we'll get some windmills. We know of a few places to put them where there's plenty of hot air being blown about. Geeky Mom pondered why nice people finish last, while pointing out the glaring discrepancies in how local students purport to think and how they actually act. Slacktivist made an......

We bring you the buzz from the 215 blogs this week: Philebrity was as annoyed as we are with Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal's daily "one question for Obama" emails—especially since there is NO QUESTION MARK in the email. Oh... no question, Mark... no pun intended. Heh. The Philadelphia Turkey wrote about the battle for control of shrubbery at the Delaware Avenue casinos. The satire stars DiCicco and Nutter in the modern day version......

Here's what went down in the 215 blogs this week, with some unintentional emphasis on cheesesteaks. Dan Gross at the Daily News Philly Gossip blog spilled the latest pseudo-celebrity gossip: cheesesteak mogul Tony Luke Jr. has landed a starring role as a boxer in upcoming film The Nail, set to start shooting in South Philly May 20. We can't wait to have our streets blocked off for camera crews and craft services. In other cheesesteak......

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......

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. D-Mac over at Philadelphia Will Do just emailed us to let us know about this article in today's Inquirer. We think that good "roll" models don't just eat right and......

Weekend's here, so most bloggers will be taking it light for the next two days. That's because most people blog from work while they're supposed to be getting things done. Yeah you. You know you do it too. So you're reading blogs at work. So? Then it happens, that funny headline or article at which you laugh just a little too hard, then minimize Firefox so the people glancing over don't see. So yeah, you......

Ugh. Milton Street is more of a fiasco than a real candidate, something of a sideshow in the political circus. He may even sideline Brady's chances! Oh the shame! So, to hell with politics. It's freaking warm again, and that means another miserable failure of an Eagles season is behind us (along with Jeff Garcia), and we can finally get back to the true American pastime. Phillyist is giddy like so many schoolgirls over watching......

We know we told you about this earlier today, but there's no such thing as too much coverage on a good, or entertaining, story. This promises to be both. Common logic dictates that if, mere months ago you were indicted for tax fraud, your chances of winning a mayoral race are slim. Same for if you don’t live in the city where you are seeking office. Or the same state in which that city is......

Philly.com has a couple of big articles about the illegal drug trade in Philly: one focusing on the dealers and how they're getting younger all the time (as young as 10, in fact) and another focusing more on narcotics officers, and the fact that city cops have seized more drugs in 2006 than in any other year (which is... good... we guess). The recent death of President Gerald Ford has Philly.com and Philadelphia Will......

- Identity fraud seems to be the hot crime this week. The feds shut down SIX separate id-theft related crime rings this week, and a would-be rapist got access to a building by claiming he was an FBI agent (allegedly). It's enough to make Phillyist paranoid. - July has gotten the dubious honor of being the deadliest month of the year. Let's hope none of the remaining month's in 2006 attempt to steal that......

- Philadelphia Will Do breaks the story that isn't a really a story (or is it?): despite an incriminating item in his Wikipedia entry (an item which no longer appears), local ABC affiliate news anchor Jim Gardner (aka James Goldman) was not arrested in New York for solicitation. Philadelphia Will Do's inevitable question: Who's out to get Jim Gardner? Phillyist can't wait to see how this plays out - mostly because we're hoping it will......

The Philadelphia branch of the Paul Green School of Rock has numerous music videos on YouTube.  Above is their rendition of Sweet Transvestite from Rocky Horror. Only Partially Insane creates a musical movie meme about the best get-up-and-dance moments.  (Why did no one tell Phillyist that Hugh Grant shook his thang in Love, Actually?  We might have bothered to have seen it if we knew...) Brad at Philly Future is pleased to see Y100......

- The recently returned Tattered Coat has a few words for Philly's disgruntled smokers. - Akkam's Razor is apparently very excited about the upcoming, live-action Transformers movie. They've got loads of related links. - In one fell swoop, Philadelphia Will Do has forever changed the way we look at sex...and Ben Franklin. - Johnny Goodtimes want to know what's the best TV Show theme song...ever. - Metroblogging Philadelphia has list of free wi fi spots.......

-By way of the This Is the City of Brotherly Love LJ Community, (and subsequently The Inquirer and Bizjournal.com) we learn that Philly isn't as smart as we might think we are. We were going to start a discussion about how this was a syllogistic fallacy to equate "degreed" with intelligence, but we just couldn't be arsed, frankly. So, um, yeah. How do you like those apples, smarty pants? - Please, won't some one......

- Phillybits spots an UFO. Luckily, not only did he have his DV cam at the ready, but there was also a band playing nearby to provide a rockin' soundtrack. - Luckily, we needn't fear much from these alien invaders, as Phreaking Philly has introduced us to our new, local superhero - Super Rat! - Rat man may not be very glamorous - but we'll take what we can get - especially since no......

- Both philly and Philadelphia Will Do have some strong words for Geno's owner, Joe Vento, in reaction to his "When Ordering, Speak English" policy. Since when has "Whiz wit" been considered English? - Someone on Craigslist is having a missed connection...with our mythical citywide wireless connection. (Aren't we all?) - Books, Inq. points us towards news of "the world's first audio-only novel." Phillyist thought these were called "radio dramas;" or perhaps "MP3 drama"......

The 700Level (by way of Philadelphia Will Do) informs us that this weekend, EverQuest II will allow users try and challenge an online, in game version of "Curt Schilling." Defeat Schilling, and Sony Online will donate $5 to the ALS association. Akkam's Razor links to ChannelBreak.com - "Free live streaming internet channel videos and television shows!" Great. Because what we really needed was another excuse to spend all of our time online. And finally......

- By way of Philly Future, we find that phillyskyline.com invited local university students to give their views on their respective campuses (literally). - Oh, and thanks to Philadelphia Will Do we now know that you can email well-wishes to the recovering Barbaro. Man - a horse that can race and read. Is there anything he can't do? - Books Inq. points us towards Poetryvlog. It's a vlog...of poets reading their poetry. - Blankbaby......

Eschaton points towards news that Big Brother may have been paying more attention than any of us thought. dovate (via Philly Future) has a new plan for some old viaducts. Philadelphia Will Do let's us know that the smoking ban may go through...sort of. Citizen Mom has a question about rainbow vs. chocolate jimmies (and whether "rainbow jimmies" means what she thinks it means). Strangely, Phillyist was having a similar debate not too long ago.......

- Phillywriters give the heads up about an upcoming silent auction to support Philadelphia Stories magazine. - Philadelphia Will Do notes some profanity on, of all places, CNN! Is this the sort of journalistic integrity that's got Michelle Malkin's site advertising those troublesome t-shirts? - The Philadelphia Craig's List Missed Connections section has gotten strangely stalkerish this week. Well, more strangely stalkerish than usual. Image via MDA Carnival......

And the Philly bloggers say: Johnny Goodtimes wants to know who offers the best pizza in town. (Clearly he should just ask Messy and Picky - we hear picking apart Philly pizza is one of their favorite topics.) Philadelphia Will Do warns us not to flash the local constabulary. Phillyist agrees; public displays of nudity should remain on the Internet, where they can be anonymously enjoyed by many. Why should just a few local cops......

The Oscars may be over, but while promohthree was satisfied with live-blogging the award show, other Philly bloggers have been busy giving out awards of their own: King Wenclas awards poet Jason Shinder the title of "Pet Poet of the Year." Ouch.Johnny Goodtimes names Andy Nolan "Master of the Obituary."Philadelphia Will Do hails Philadelphia as a city where "simply awesome" things happen. What grand achievement afforded us this honor? Local morning show hosts dancing with......

What's on Philly's blogging mind: Philly Future alerts us that New Jersey auteur; actor and comic book writer, purveyor and aficionado, Kevin Smith, will be speaking at Penn's Irvine auditorium on March 27th. Tickets for this event will be made available for purchase through an online lottery. In Mallrats, Smith's Silent Bob cautioned us all that, "Adventure, excitement.. a Jedi craves not these things." And fair enough; but we'd bet a Jedi would crave seeing......

By Star Foster Local Philly blogging talk: Phillyist isn't the only Philly blog blabbing about Senator Ricky's latest shenanigans: Attytood has the scoop on Santorum's spending habits, while D-mac at Philadelphia Will Do highlights all the really important bits, like where Santorum and his PAC gets their fast food, of which they are apparently fond. (Haven't they read about that fast food ice/toilet water study?) Mac at the Pesky Apostrophe challenges the blogosphere to be......

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......

Despite the protests of our Grey's Anatomy-lovin' readership, we're going to march on with our coverage of the T.O. drama that has strangled the city over the past week. Today, Owens gave a press conference in front of his New Jersey home. Because he's upset with the media for not printing/broadcasting his interviews unfiltered (this would probably be a good idea for the staff-cutting local papers, they only need to hire a transcriber for their......

City Councilman Rick Mariano, a local politician who has had federal indictment rumors swirling about him recently, climbed onto a ledge and City Hall tonight and threatened to commit suicide. He was talked down from the ledge by Mayor John Street and Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson. Mariano was then taken to a hospital, where he presumably is now. Mariano was at City Hall's observation deck, which stands approximately 500 feet above street level. We don't......