Is it Love? Or Shove? What's it gonna be, people?

It seems pretty unfriendly out here in the cold city...

Someone went out of their way today to tell me that I shoulnt be riding my bike on the sidewalk...I was just trying to live...I only ride up on the sidewalk when I absoulutly have to...but anyway I told them "I do what I need to do to stay safe!" Same as it ever was...

The "greeter" @ my bank that I talk to all the time said one of the branches was held up @ gunpoint recently. Three guys, three guns...they got into the locked area behind the "bulletproof" glass...the "greeter" said they don't pay bank tellers enough to be risking their lives like that besides it's a bullshit job. How much is a life worth anyway?

I was in a Food Court down town recently and these obseesive-compulsive images kept popping into my mind: I don' t want to die crawling on my belly through wreckage/carnage with these people I see around me in this god-forsaken place...earlier in the day I spotted a "Homeland Security" vehicle parked outside. The occupants were eating donuts...

Gunshots Rang Out...

Not long ago there was an attempted robbery...these guys ran through our streets in a residential area in broad daylight with the cops chasing them...my roommate said she heard b/w 30-50 shots ring out...one of the bullets flew into someones house and hit an innocent bystander... I was running late that morning on my bike and there was only a ten or fifteen minute gap that prevented me from possibly getting caught up in the mix... rained on by a hail of bullets...I guess timing is everything in life...we tried to forget about it but not long after ( in an unrelated incident)some young guy was found murdered... shot in the head and chest @the bar down the street... read the local neighborhood papers...it just gets worse...and they want to build casinos here?!?!

stop the violence philly!

Here is a blog to vent your frustration about the sad situation in the city of brotherly (love? shove?)