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Office Edition Blinq
Thought it would be helpful, since we are largely a nine-to-five site, to come up with a special Office Edition of Blinq, filled with the sort of practical, real world information you've come to expect on this page. So, no, I am going to avoid making much of Yahoo!'s Seven... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2014 at Blinq
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Thanks for Noticing, Evan
What's made the Best of Craigslist? "To the women who work in my office... I hate you." Yes, a rant written by a soon-to-be-very-unpopular Philadelphian apparently named Evan. Yes, with its sexual frankness, unsafe for work -- or breakfast. And yes, entertaining enough to have made Digg's hot posts of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2014 at Blinq
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Music You Can Stand a Spoon In
You hear a Black Keys song, and you can be forgiven if your first thought is, "I could play that." Yeah, but would you think of that? Elemental riffs, fuzzy chords, and a voice that exudes heaviosity drive this Akron-based, lo-fi, blues-rock duo that plays the Electric Factory Saturday night.... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2014 at Blinq
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Mergers & Acquisitions
It's the weekend in Warsaw, so let's get going. If I weren't already booked -- two nights of the fall play, where Blinq Spawn B tries on his Irish accent -- I'd be thinking about seeing a couple merged acts with promise. Like Spencer Dickinson tonight at the TLA. This... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2014 at Blinq
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Hear This, Robert Zimmerman
The All The Same Tour rolls into town, and attention must be paid. The Raconteurs open Saturday night at the Spectrum for Mr. Robert Zimmerman and his seasoned band of brothers. We devote the whole Weekend Tunes to the return of the sage, the reluctant prophet, with the voice like... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2014 at Blinq
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Holding It Down
Before we go dumpster diving for some weekend tunes, attention must be paid to the bow-tied gentleman holding it down on our left. Butch Ballard will be picking up a Mellon Jazz achievement award tonight before the Sonny Rollins concert at the Kimmel Center. Butch told Suzanne Cloud, president of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2014 at Blinq
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Alejandro
A weekend of worthy music - Marah at the TLA and Graham Parker at the Tin Angel Saturday, then We Are Scientists at the First Unitarian Church Sunday - but I'm going long with one man - Alejandro Escovedo returns to the World Cafe Live Saturday. With his string quintet.... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2014 at Blinq
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Damien Rice
Damien Rice leaned into the mic and mumbled, "This one is about messing it up even more than the previous," and he was into another delicate song about a broken love. Bed hair and all, he arrived on stage at the World Cafe Live a good half hour late -... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2014 at Blinq
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Used To Be One Of The Rotten Ones ...
One tip for the weekend - something for the whole family. By that I mean, I'll be listening to a Broken Social Scene song with Emily Haines' voice haunting me ("Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl" in particular), and one of my teenage sons will walk into the room and grunt,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2014 at Blinq
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Elegance To Be Heard
There was a track I put on a compilation in Berlin called Abie The Fishman, after the scene in Animal Crackers when Marx Brothers taunt some poseur they recognize from the old country. And toward the end of the mix the mood changes, the power pop blissfully surges -- Owsley,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2014 at Blinq
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Benjy Ferree
shhhhhh. we don't want to disturb him. i'm going to forgo my usual diet of haute americana, such as dave alvin, james mcmurtry and the bottle rockets, all of whom are are coming to town this weekend, to try something new. on the advice of our aging pop critic, i'm... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2014 at Blinq
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Three Worth Hearing
For this weekend's tunes, we look toward the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, where - supporting his first album in 17 years - guitar maestro David Bromberg and his Big Band take the stage Friday night. "Try Me One More Time" comes out Feb. 27. Its 16 songs of acoustic folk... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2014 at Blinq
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They Are Black Friday Zombies!!
Psst! Wanna know a badly kept secret? With Black Friday approaching like an good-old-zombies-in-the-mall movie, several Internet sites have gotten into the business of spoiling retailers' secrets by leaking what products are going to be on sale. And some of those big-box retailers haven't loved letting the world know their... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2014 at Blinq
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Poured Out
With Saddam hanged and reports of arguments at the end -- American advisers counseling caution, Iraqi officials rushing to the gallows -- there's one spot in the blogosphere that could be counted on to make sense of the confusion. And now it's gone. If you stopped by Whiskey Bar over... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2014 at Blinq
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Photo Of The Day
If we had a Photo of the Day department, like Londonist has, we would have posted this. Reminds me of all those deflated Santas you drive by in my neighborhood. Do people let the air out at night? Is it the drop in temperature? Is it vandals, systematically working their... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2014 at Blinq
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Blogs From the 19th Century
It's been 146 years since a Prince of Wales last visited our fair city. The royal in question was the slight, pale, 18-year-old son of Queen Victoria and heir to the throne of England -- known as Albert Edward, and called Baron Renfrew. Decades later, he would become King Edward... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2014 at Blinq
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Is This Thing On?
No, we haven't been decommissioned, as the BM Rant wrote this weekend. Blinq was just a momentary casualty of the switch to a new publishing system at Philly.com, and it took lots of woman hours to make it look the way it does now. (Thanks Jennifer and Nadya) We lost... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2014 at Blinq
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Whiskey On Ice
Every few months I try to call up a dead link on my list of "favorites," hoping to be surprised by some activity in a shuttered Web site. I'll play Rbally, to see if the music blogger's gone back to posting great shows from rock's golden ages. And I'll drop... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2014 at Blinq
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Ms. Dewey
A friend over at WHYY sends this link to his favorite new search engine. Turn your speakers on. Don't forget to search for something. I asked "Who is Ms. Dewey?" Found this. Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2014 at Blinq
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It's All About Us
Time Magazine picks YOU as the Person of the Year -- the podcasting, social-networking, YouTubing masses. Captain's Quarters calls it a suck-up choice. Jeff Jarvis asks, What took Time so long? Nora Ephron writes a thank you speech: Time might want to know how I manage to Do It All,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2014 at Blinq
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Shiny
No, I don't need it. Yes, I want it. Time to ditch that phone, that Palm Pilot, the laptop, the digital camera and that 3rd generation iPod for an all-in-one pocket pal? Not me. Not yet. But, so shiny... Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone today at the Macworld 2007 in... Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2014 at Blinq
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New Blogs!
Went far and wide for the two new local blogs we've got for you today - they're produced by people here at 400 N. Broad. Dave Hiltbrand has created a cyber-version of Dave on Demand, his Saturday column at the Inquirer, and in it he goes deep on some pet... Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2014 at Blinq
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Searching For Sound
Here's a pretty shiny bit of Web tech - a site that will search through audio files to help you hear key portions of speeches, broadcasts or podcasts. To illustrate its product, Pluggd has created the State of The Union Smackdown. In the red corner is the president, in the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2014 at Blinq
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Tech Briefs
The CIA's rocking the Facebook to get recruits. Microsoft hires blogger to tweak details about the company on its Wikipedia page. Fox subpoenas YouTube to find out which fan of 24 and The Simpsons posted a bunch of episodes online. Washington is killing the Internet Radio star. Googling blogs made... Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2014 at Blinq
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Persona non Ph'der
This week's New Yorker has a curious editor's note on page 10. It sheds light on something that's become known to the magazine since its July 31 piece on Wikipedia -- mainly that the site administrator whose bio identifies him as a tenured professor with a Ph'd D in theology... Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2014 at Blinq
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