Late last sum­mer our neigh­bor­hood end­ed up being named Olde Rich­mond after an abortive meet­ing in which an estab­lished orga­ni­za­tion stat­ed its inten­tion to absorb our human resources. So instead of Flat­iron, which many of the locals call this tri­an­gle between Fish­town prop­er and Port Rich­mond, we got Olde Rich­mond, which is embar­rass­ing beyond words.

In light of this and the forth­com­ing Con­stan­tines album, I plan on refer­ring to where I live as Kens­ing­ton Heights. Let’s see if it catch­es on. Real­tors, be on alert: Port Fish­ing­ton is the stu­pid­est thing you’ve come up with lately.

Also, when search­ing the unfor­tu­nate­ly named ORCA, I hap­pened across a very rea­son­able blog, Kens­ingdel­phia. Its author seems to be some­one who’s nei­ther a pro-growth nut, nor a ‘more pow­er to the gen­tri­fiers’ type guy, which is refresh­ing since most things I read by nu-Fish­town­ers reek of the sort of enti­tle­ment which stank up Williams­burg back when I lived there five years ago.

Maybe I’ll start try­ing to attend ORCA meet­ings! I can get caught up here!

From the Inquir­er’s series on home­less­ness in Philadel­phia:

Nut­ter has not laid out specifics on how he will address the home­less sit­u­a­tion. Yet change is already afoot. Since Nut­ter took office Jan. 7, police in Cen­ter City’s Ninth Police Dis­trict have begun a “qual­i­ty-of-life ini­tia­tive” in which indi­vid­u­als caught loi­ter­ing, pub­licly intox­i­cat­ed, uri­nat­ing in pub­lic or block­ing a high­way will get a cita­tion and be ordered to appear in Philadel­phia Com­mu­ni­ty Court.

William G. Bab­cock, the Com­mu­ni­ty Court’s coor­di­na­tor, said that in just a few weeks his staff had noticed an increase in the case­load out of the Ninth.

In an inter­view short­ly before he took office, Nut­ter said the city would have to be fair and humane, “but we will also have to be relent­less.… We can­not allow peo­ple to sleep on side­walks, sleep on bench­es, sleep in parks as if that is their reg­u­lar liv­ing space.”

This is what is con­sid­ered ‘pro­gres­sive’ in 2008? And he likes ‘stop and frisk?’ How long before phrenol­o­gy makes its big comeback?

Last­ly, I guess Mari­mow’s liv­ing out this sea­son of the Wire for real. This sto­ry has a real Dick­en­sian feel to it.

You could do worse than nu-gaze. This is my way of say­ing that the new Raveonettes album is com­plete­ly accept­able listening.

I have two. The sec­ond song seems to be the only dif­fer­ence between them. I ful­ly expect Boris to pro­duce four more ver­sions and for South­ern Lord to only mar­ket one of them. This is actu­al­ly fine.

At this point the Inter­net is a pub­li­cist who gets you the pro­mo you request­ed and nev­er asks ques­tions after that, which is pret­ty great if you ask me. And yeah that Mae Shi album is pret­ty great. These New Puri­tans aren’t half bad either.