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Today's featured Twitter user is @VisitPhilly, a production of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation. Their goal? Bring people to Philadelphia. By now, you have probably seen their unique With Love ad campaign, featuring hand-written notes about all the many reasons one may have for visiting Philly. We're still waiting for something like "Dear Lovers of Local Color: You'll love the local news and culture coverage on Phillyist.com" to show up on a bus shelter or a billboard, but we're hopeful.

People, people, people. We know we begged of you last week to vote your hearts out for Shane Victorino. And as it turns out, y'all listened to us! So, we're calling on your super voting powers again; this time to bring the Travelocity Gnome to Philadelphia. He's gotta beat out Boston and DC and right now Philly is neck-and-neck with that swampoodle down south. (Ed. note: Sorry, DCist.) So do your civil duty and bring that little guy over here!

A+ for conceptualization. C- for voice acting.

We actually love the GPTMC's new ad campaign (isn't that kind of the point?) but we've got to agree with WHYY here: in context, "Steak du Cheese" makes not much sense.

Pennsylvania's tourism gurus, VisitPA, have decided to up the ante with some creative promotional material, not mention a beautifully integrated web site. They recently launched PAStories.com, which tells the tale of Peter Arthur and his search for a lost love. His journey takes him all over the state as he tries to find the waitress that served him the most amazing slice of shoofly pie he has ever had.

How about, instead of running, we dance? And instead of Bill Conti, we get Michael Jackson? Awesome.

One hundred forty years ago, the founder of Stanford University drove a Golden Spike into the ground in Utah, connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railways, connecting the nation through rail and forever changing travel as the world knew it.

The New York Times' Travel section ran a piece today that calls Philadelphia a "destination city"—something we could have told them years ago. We're happy that The Times has finally decided to show the City of Brotherly Love a little affection (instead of that Sixth Borough crap from a few years ago), but we'd like to point out that their recommended schedule is almost as improbable as the route of the Rocky run.

We're sensing a bit of a disconnect here: when you call your video "Philly Phootage," it implies that you've maybe got a sense of humor. So wherefore the music choice?

The Inquirer reports that a federal court will hold proceedings today regarding a law passed last year that requires the city's tour guides to undergo licensing. The idea is that everyone who dispenses cheeky history lessons all day should actually know history. The stay that delayed implementation of the law is up at the end of this month, so a decision is expected soon. In the meantime, it might be fun to dig up some accurate historical facts and go around the city correcting tour guides. Just an idea.

We at Phillyist love food. And Shakespeare. So when we heard that City Food Tours was teaming with the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre to present a tasting tour in honor of the Bard's birthday, we naturally had to pass our findings on to you—and then we found out the one-time-only tour is completely sold out.

This might be the best documentary on Old City, ever.

Listen. We don't go to your city and dance on your civic buildings. Why the disrespect?

O hai. You can haz Filadelfia... And sum udder stuffs.

We wish we could be this thrifty!

To all the people who visit Philly and put the resulting videos on YouTube: Thank you for making our job easier.

Did any one attend the Love Park kissykissy commercial shoot this past sunday? I didn't—choosing instead to do research on this week's park: Dickinson Square. Although Dickinson is in its name, the park is actually located a block south of Dickinson Street, between Tasker and Morris, and bordered by 4th Street and Moyamensing Avenue on the West and East sides. The park has been a park since 1900, after the Pascal Iron Works packed up and moved to Delaware, deeding the land to the city, who then gave it to the Children's Culture League (hence its rather awesome playground). The name comes from John Dickinson, governor of Pennsylvania from 1782-1785 (who also happened to found Dickinson College, serve as governor as Delaware, and advocate for NOT separating from Britain. The man got around: he deserves his park).

We agree.

The best part of this video is definitely the contents of the wad of cash.

Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2009 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know!

Note to Candidate Carpenter: If you want to win the PA vote, you probably should know that our baseball team is the Phillies, not the Philly's. But we totally dig your VP pick.

The London Observer just called Phillyist "the pick of the city's blogs." Just us. Nobody else. To those of you who were directed here from Tom Hall's excellent article, welcome! We're having a slow day while we recover from the Phillies parade and Halloween festivities over the weekend, but we'll be back up to full speed tomorrow. For those of you who are regular Phillyist readers, pay it forward and give The Observer some link love today!

Sure, we'd all like to be carried up the stairs of the PMA. But if you're gonna do the Rocky run, you've gotta do it right—even if you are only a toddler.

This video is actually really adorable, and we can't argue with the musical selection. But the mistake in the Please Touch Museum title is just the teeniest bit disturbing.

#487: Filming the skyline while driving on the interstate.

We've seen a lot of these videos, but this is the first one we've posted from this vantage—and now we know why.

But wouldn't it be nice if once—just once—we came across a tourist video that used no music from the Rocky movies?

This guy is clearly not a good Philadelphia tourist.

It's actually pretty impressive how many people like to post their videos of their trips to Philadelphia on YouTube.

Remember when we told you about Shut the Duck Up? Here's more about the founder.