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Time Magazine is home to a colorful, if brief, story about a Philadelphia publishing house taking over a New York outfit—in 1941. The Philadelphia firm, J.B. Lippincott, has an interesting past (one of its previous presidents married the daughter of the man who founded the Wharton School of Business) and survives to this day, as Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.

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Sometimes, it's hard to resist the hate. You may not be having an especially bad day – you may in fact be in a good mood. But sometimes the snark comes so naturally that you have to marinate in it. Like it's Lawry's.

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank.

You may notice that there's not a lot going on on the site today. After the whirlwinds of the Film Festival, the POPPED! Festival, and all those play openings, we decided to reward ourselves with a day off.

, to coincide with the publishing of the text of his original draft scroll (yep, you heard us: scroll). Well, that reading begins today at 4:00 p.m. and will continue to midnight or later: they won't stop till the whole book has been read. The Writers House promises live jazz music and foods mentioned in the novel (no Benzedrine though—sorry!), and readers of the scroll will include local literary luminaries, Writers House employees and volunteers, and, ehem, this Phillyist. (She's reading at 8:00 p.m., if you're trying to avoid her.)

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Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to.

You may have perhaps heard at some point this week that an NFL team known as the Dallas Cowboys is coming to town this Sunday night to play against our Philadelphia Eagles. You may also remember that said Cowboys have playing for them a fellow named Terrell Owens, who used to play for us. What does all of that mean? It means, as the AP so aptly puts it, that the T.O. circus is coming to town again. The Daily News is preparing with a brutal article full of "love" for Dallas; T.O. prepared by publishing his first children's book. We shit you not. Yeah, it was mostly ghostwritten by Courtney Parker, and the illustrations were done by Todd Harris, but it's T.O.'s name that's in big bold capital letters on the cover. The book is called Little T Learns to Share, and it's about a little boy "learning to share his new football with friends." T.O. says that for him the book is about "sharing with children the lessons he didn't learn as a child (and has had to painfully acquire as an adult)." Yeah, well, we're not so sure he's learned all those lessons quite yet. Anyway, we're hoping the Eagles can teach him one or two on Sunday night.

Blogging is a strange animal. It's an extremely social activity, encouraging the free exchange of ideas across borders through self-publishing, link sharing and comment capability. Conversely - it's a hermit-like activity - done surreptiously in offices (for shame!) or at home, late at night and in our pajamas (or is it in our Open Source? We're not sure anymore).