Good news. The Real World Philadelphia is back on like Donkey Kong. Philly Mayor John Street sat down with both the producers of the show and the unions and worked out the dispute over the use of non-union labor. I assume this means that the union guys will now get to watch the non-union guys do work. Perhaps they’ll call it union supervision. Whatever. I’m already plotting how I will change my daily routine. For one thing, Chew is going to be taking a longer damn walk in the morning and evening. I think I’ll be eating at Old City Pizza (located across the street from the Seaman’s Center). There’s a Starbucks across the other side of the street. Real World removes references to actual store names and brands, so you’d probably never know if they were in a Starbucks or a Einstein Bagels. There’s clubs up and down 3rd and 2nd, but the swankier joints are around the Rittenhouse area in the teen streets. I predict the Real Worlders will stick close to home base. Did I mention that Fox’s COPS was filming at Mardi Gras? They nearly ran me over more than a couple of times while they dragged unsuspecting partiers away. ”What’d I do? What’d I do? What’d I do?” was the usual mantra I’d hear as the crew filmed an overly righteous cop dragging away someone who was probably doing the same stuff everyone else had been doing — only they did it at the wrong place and the wrong time. Those Mardi Gras cops have to show off for the show. So, my point in bringing that up is that if I didn’t accidentally get my ugly mug on COPS, I’m definitely going to accidentally get my ugly mug on Real World.