holly shishkabob this is great news!!! This is right on my hood

Fantabulous.

Incidentally, we met Joe one day when we were doing one of our open house snoops at The Artisans. Not only does he build beautiful buildings, but he seems like a really nice guy too. Good for him.

Philly folks flock to the 16th annual Wing Bowl

Posted: Friday February 1, 2008 4:07PM; Updated: Friday February 1, 2008 4:07PM

Joey Chestnut downed 241 wings in 30 minutes on Friday.
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By Joseph Santoliquito, Special to SI.com
PHILADELPHIA -- A pair of 30ish men in leather jackets are waiting in a deli line one weekday afternoon in South Philadelphia talking sports. They aren't talking about another year of no world championship in Philadelphia -- and can't help but discus something the area is anxiously waiting to see in a few days.
No, it wasn't about Kevin Garnett and the Boston Celtics visiting. Nor was it whether or not Johan Santana would sign with the New York Mets, or a stop by Martin Brodeur and the New Jersey Devils. No, the Wachovia Center was about to play host to a classic clash of two eating titans on Friday morning, Joey Chestnut and Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, in the 16th Wing Bowl, the annual Philadelphia affair that's more indoor Mardi Gras than anything remotely close to an athletic contest, more an intoxicating celebration of one city's ineptitude to produce a world champion in 100 seasons (none of the four major Philadelphia pro sports teams have won a world championship in 25 years).
The event, hosted each year by sportstalk radio station 610 WIP, takes over the city the Friday of Super Bowl weekend, and is enough to cause two sports fans in a deli line to analytically look at the eaters as if comparing the range of Phillies MVP shortstop Jimmy Rollins to the Mets' Jose Reyes.
What made it unique this year, other than the pageantry of characters that yearly cavort through the Wachovia Center like a Friday night at Caligula's palace, is that it marked the first time the legendary Simmons, a five-time Wing Bowl champion who even has a banner hanging from the rafters of the Wachovia Center, faced off against two-time defending champion Chestnut, the world's best competitive eater who already downed one legend last July, when he out ate Takeru Kobayashi in The Nathan's International July Fourth Hot Dog Eating Contest.
This time, it was a case of the young buck, Chestnut, shattering all records by chomping down an astounding 241 chicken wings in 30 minutes, an average of eight wings a minute, outdistancing 22-year old Patrick Bertoletti, who finished with 227, and Simmons came in third with 205.







This is Philly.

It fills the house every year.

"Let them eat cake" right?

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Last night I noticed some happenings on the West side of Broad between Fitz and Bainbridge. There was suddenly a new 3 story building just south of Bainbridge, I guess on Pemberton, where there hadn’t been one just days before. It looks like the developer who is building just south of The Artisan is putting up modular units, otherwise his crew is really fast, or I missed something, but based upon the presence of a large crane, I'm going with the modular guess.

As I approached the corner of Broad and Fitz I noticed what looked like a few trailers on Joe Wilson's new property. I guess they could have been more modules, but they were wrapped in plastic, so I couldn't tell, but they didn't look like the right dimensions to be modules, and they looked to have pitched roofs. Sales trailers maybe?

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