ABOUT

Jawn:

Philly slang for a person, place, or thing. (urban dictionary)

ville:

place, category, or quality of a specified nature. (merriam-webster)

Born in Kensington, raised in Juniata Park, and living in South Philly. Jawnville, holding true to the nature of “jawn” is home to the opinion, observations, thoughts, and rants of this Philly born-and-raised writer, philosopher, beer-drinking, and music-loving, bloke on anything and everything.

What makes my voice so special? Other than having one’s formitive years defined by Santucci Pizza (the original “O” Street location), the Juniata Boys & Girls Club, making out with girls in alleys, drinking beers in Piccoli Playground, dead bodies popping up in the Tacony Creek (pronounced Crick), smoking weed in Scanlan Playground, hearing someone shoot themself in the head, having your Miniature Schnauzer stolen by a crazed neighbor to mate him with theirs so they could sell purebred Miniature Schnauzer puppies, the Roosevelt Mall, having elderly next-door neighbors running a bootleg pharmaceutical mercury ring in their basement with their house catching fire, and then breaking my neck in a darn-near-fatal car wreck, and getting caught on the street during a police shootout, nothing. Nothing at all.

I’m just a Philly kid, law-school-dropout, still figuring out the entire adulting thing and trying to make sense of the world around us. Hopefully, along the way, some of the drivel that’s posted here will make you laugh, entertain or inform you, or even irritate you.

If ya never irritate anyone, ya ain’t doing it right.

Thanks for stopping by.