Philadelphia recently announced plans to all but decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana (up to 30 grams) for personal use, but that certainly didn’t help out a 33-year-old single parent who was busted by cops this week after stashing weed in his son’s Elmo backpack. Ronald Washington — who accidentally placed two bags holding 105 grams of dope in his six-year-old son’s bag and was met by police when he went to school to retrieve it — is being held after failing to post $100,000 bail on charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver, and disorderly conduct. “It was something dumb,” said Washington, who realized the stoner switch-a-roo when he tried to roll up and smoke his son’s school lunch.

Porno movie titles are known for terribly clever puns: Romancing the Bone, Fill Bill, E3: The Extra Testicle. But porn producer Michael Lucas took things a step further with La Dolce Vita, a gay adult movie that borrows both the title and the plot of Fellini’s classic flick of the same name.

The XXX Vita — shot in NYC with a $250,000 budget that makes it one of the most expensive gay pornos ever made — was at the center of a legal tiff recently, as a company claiming ownership of the original’s copyright sued Lucas, alleging copyright infringement. But this week a judge ruled that copyright ownnership could not be shown, and the remake could proceed. Check out a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie that New York magazine called a “glossy gay remake” of Dolce here:

Pizza Hut In Japan Announces Stoner’s Delight, Again

Look at this delicious Pizza with a crust of mini hotdogs

Jesus. Just LOOK AT IT! It commands you, to look at it!

Why can’t we have this here! We are so fat! Don’t we deserve this colon shredding, heartstopping monstrosity? Is that the price in yen or the calorie count?

Is that a TACO in the middle? Paella? This is sickening and delightful all at once. The US has finally conquered Japan.

I lived next to my RA freshman year of college, and he generously used to spray Glade in the hallway and would jokingly remind me to put a towel under my door before my daily 4:20 sessions. Then there are the fucking ridiculous passive aggressive neighbors in the East Village who heroically defend their families from toxic bong hit second hand smoke with passive aggressive notes like this:

Can animals be gay? A ten-thousand word New York Times Magazine piece delves deeply into the topic and discovers that . . . well, just read it for yourself.

Leave it to Times Frugal Traveler columnist Matt Gross to discover a free drinking avenue in NYC I’ve never explored in all my years of searching for dirt-cheap libations: the wine shop wine tasting. Sure, I’ve sampled a few selected vinos during tastings at the various liquor stores I purchase booze — who hasn’t? — but actually mapping out a series of stores in close proximity and then hitting all of them up in a mad dash like some glorified college bar crawl? Brilliant!

Astor Wines & Spirits at its relatively new spot on Laffeyette, Union Square Wines on Fourth Ave. and Bottlerocket Wine and Spirit North of Union Square — and Gross managed to hit all three without spending a dime. But then he desecrates the whole experience by actually complaining about the wine being offered. One thing to remember when on the prowl for alcohol giveaways in NYC: free boozers can’t be choosers.

This happy little street brawl supposedly took place outside of Penn Station last week, although it’s honestly hard to tell if it’s a genuine fight or a staged altercation. Regardless, what starts as one dude with a stick fighting another dude with an umbrella quickly turns into a five-on-one beatdown — and one worth watching, if you’re into this sort of thing:

I’m not the first to write about an herbal marijuana substitute called K2 — media hysteria over the (mostly) legal blend of herbs and spices has been sweeping the Midwest, the state of Kansas banned it last week and Missouri is looking to outlaw it as well. But I may be one of the first writers that has actually tried it. K2 is gaining attention for its weed-like buzz, and my one experience smoking it confirmed that K2 can produce a pleasantly mild buzz somewhat similar to puffing on ganja, without common side effects like red eyes, dry mouth and the munchies. But the high was definitely weak compared to strong, dank buds (we even smoked a whole K2 joint between two people), the taste was terrible (think nasty truck-stop pouch tobacco) and I was told the price wasn’t much less than its illegal counterpart (I didn’t pay).

Wanna try it for yourself? Plenty of websites sell various blends of K2, with names like Pink, Blue, Blonde, Summit, Citron and Standard. Check out K24Real.com or K2Herbal.com to get started (sorry, Kansas, they won’t ship to you).

So this decidedly hip boutique hotel The Standard was built straddling NYC’s High Line park in such a manner that the “337 rooms framed by huge, non-reflective glass windows” have become a stage of sorts — a popular stage for randy exhibitionists to exhibit their various sexual fantasies to the people walking the High Line below them. The flashing first was exposed in a Post article last summer. The tabloid posted a series of photos called Peep Show at the Standard Hotel and the hotel’s official blog even solicited amateur erotic pictures shot at the hotel in a post titled “Cum on over!”

But has the tide turned on the Standard’s sexual ? Because of a house rule prohibiting more than three guests per room, the website Palagia — an organizer of swingers parties in NYC — recently was rejected when it trying to book a room for a bash at the Standard. “It’s insane. Why not? My guests would love to be seen having sex,” Palagia recently told Page Six. A rep for the hotel called the incident a misunderstanding.

Think of it as New York’s version of the running of the bulls, except — OK, it’s actually nothing like that. Every spring ahead of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus‘ spring visit to Madison Square Garden, a herd of Asian elephants — along with donkeys, stilt walkers, animal trainers and a watusi — parade their way into Manhattan and across town to MSG after taking a midnight stroll through the Queens Midtown Tunnel. The event was even immortalized in a scene in Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Hundreds of people come out to watch the surreal spectacle, and this year’s Elephant Walk was no different, despite last night’s torrential rains. Check out a slew of photos of the stroll here. The circus will be in town through April 4.