A Tour of Philly's Least Desirable

Chateaubriand grant: pretty much done :)

Jeopardy : I've been called in twice so far. Overall the assignments have been fairly easy (only about 4-5 hours each) so I suppose not a lot to complain about.

After resident report today my friend Pete Gabriel went for a tour of the least scenic areas of Philadelphia, cruisin' the streets in his 64. The goal? To collect video footage for our Holiday XMas Skit, an annual tradition in our Department of Medicine where residents throw together some brief skits which make fun of our attendings, the hospital, and most of all ourselves. The gag this year is making use of the fact that Pete was really hired to do a "recruitment video" to show to prospective applicants--it turned out great. For the XMas Skit we are going to make an "anti-recruitment video" which shows all the crappy areas of Philadelphia and all the shitty aspects of our job (neither of which, in all honesty, should be all that difficult).

Anyways, our little field trip was pretty memorable. Highlights included a visit to the Philadelphia Oil Refinery (photo below), collecting multiple photo shots of a variety of fried chicken joints in the hood, having Pete's car assaulted by a gang of uppity teens on Broad Street, and talking to this one dude who asked specifically not to be filmed because, "I've got warrants out, Pimp Daddy!"

Should be interesting to see what turns out from all of this...