July 2010
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Hey Steve Cuozzo and editors at the New York Post: I guess bikes are the real terror on the streets, right?
UPDATE: asdkljfalsdjfl;asjdf;lasdjf
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Ironically, most bike lanes are little used. I’ve counted as few as 10 cyclists in a half-hour using the lanes on Ninth Avenue and Grand Street.
Well, if that intersection existed, you might see more cyclists there!
(I know, I know - he means “either” on Ninth or on Grand.)
20 cyclists an hour is… not bad. If he checked the West Side path a couple blocks away from...
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Ten Orange Things That Are Not as Orange as the... →
“Fit To Print”
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ninety9:
joecoscarelli:
Every night with Dash felt like The Night. It was like he invited you here from your small town and felt responsible if you had a bad time. I remember coming from Black & White on 10th St. and everyone being mildly bummed at what a mediocre evening it had been. Without warning, Dash lit a discarded Christmas tree on fire, which exploded into flames and brought down...
An article in Slate, by Dana Vachon, about the economy, The Hills, and Jersey Shore? How many “Blogger Required Reading” points does that add up to, ten billion?
In other news, I thought Jersey Shore was getting nonstop publicity just because they’d rather talk about the grease on Pauly D’s head than the oil in the Gulf. So I was quite taken by surprise to hear that the...
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I’m going to take all my Rick Astley MP3s and post them as songs from The National. Thanks, Tumblr!
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disgustingthingsihaveeaten replied to your post: Picture this
but seriously man, fuck Target.
Target sells lemonade, but not sandwiches.
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Picture this
Somewhere on First Avenue, Dan Abrams sets up a lemonade stand with a bunch of friends. Gives away lemonade. All the neighborhood kids who work at the stand are obsessed with talking about everyone else’s lemonade.
A couple blocks up, Alex Balk, Choire Sicha, and David Cho are also giving away lemonade. The lemonade tastes better, and the kids running this stand are acerbic, funnier, and...
whenitstrikesme:
Brian: as someone familiar with Target’s real estate practices in the past, the general policy of Target is to own the land on which their stores are placed. This is generally impractical in Manhattan which is part of the reason they started in the outer boroughs and have been slow to move into congested urban centers (another reason is the Costco, WalMart and Target...
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I have to stop reading this now, before it convinces me that I have terminal cancer and I suffer a panic attack in the middle of my workday. (I have been through a number of diagnostics lately that would make that very unlikely, anyway) Open it at your own risk… it is very good and very relevant, but if it doesn’t make you ponder your own mortality (and scare the shit out of you in the...
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JINX
Just out of curiosity... →
maura:
Where in Manhattan would one build a Target that is convenient to the subway (and I’m going to guess bicyclists too cough)? Also the whole “build a store for this city” argument would work better if more people who, you know, actually lived in the neighborhood to weigh in on the supposed pedestrian-hostile quotient of this store! Numbers are not experiences.
Please take this humble list...
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Don’t go to the Target at Atlantic Terminal. (I concur)
Kottke may have recommended a magazine article about himself
Pwned →
whenitstrikesme:
tdpj:
samsplace:
Like a lot of people here I once was a regular on Deadspin. Since Will left the site has really gone to hell. I did enjoy Magary’s work there at first but the schtick got old fast. Relying on bathroom humor, prurience and shock value for attention will only get you so far. The linked article shows what happens when you reflexively whore yourself for page...
tumblklaat asked: what if you grew up in the projects and happened find a computer in the garbage?
WHAT THEN!?
WHAT THEN!?
ninety9:
I’m not saying that all the usual markers of privilege didn’t and don’t apply. Just that after 1980, ‘computers’ were not exceptionally out of reach relative to the other ways the affluent or privilege classes exert their advantages (social connections, generations of education or wealth, etc), and if anything are one of the few areas where you could collapse that difference for a...
justinday:
Yeah I had an Atari 800XL until high school. We certainly weren’t rich.
Ha, that’s exactly what I had! We also had an Atari 2600, making me an exceedingly lucky early gamer - I was born in 1979 and was playing Pac-Man at home when I was 4. So, like, don’t bet against me at Ms. Pac-Man. I’m a ringer.
[re: rich kids and computers]
ninety9:
Broadly put, it’s a fair point. But adjusted for inflation, a C64 in 1986 was about as much as the PS3 (It retailed for $595, versus $199 for a Colecovision, launched the same year). And the C64 could be plugged into a television, remember? For teens in the 70s, access to a computer was culture as much as money (if you weren’t in Boston or California, how...
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If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were... →
Jesus Christ.
But it’s soooo true. All of us “started hacking before 10” people are just as bad as those stories of kids who are “starting their own business at 14”. Or sailing around the world at 16. How could anyone assign themselves a retroactive expectation of being able to afford very expensive shit when they were 5 years old?
It’s reminiscent of the...
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Good thing: I burned over 2,000 calories today on the bike.
Bad thing: I ate something like 4,000 - 4,500 calories throughout the day. That includes a cheeseburger and seven beers as my post-ride reward.
Worst thing: My body right now is saying “Fuck you for doing this to me in the 95 degree heat!” and the relentless heat is just making that feeling worse. But I guess the feeling...
The new traffic patterns upset drivers as well. “I think it’s just wrong the drivers have nowhere to drive now,” says Andy Pabon, who commutes through the East Village often and picks up his prescriptions at the Rite-Aid on First Avenue and 5th Street.
It would be sad if I actually had to qualify my stance with a map or pictures to show all the driving lanes on both First and...
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“As a female, I usually have a hard time admitting that I read your articles. I have a harder time admitting that I think you’re hilarious. I feel like I should despise you on principle, because let’s be honest, you’re a pig. But I do like you. More than I care to admit.”
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From The Inbox
Please tell me if any part of this invitation takes place in NYC like the subject indicates, because apparently my $80,000 degree wasn’t enough education for me to be able to find that part. asdf;lkasjdfl;kajsdfasdfkl;jas;df
Oh, and since when do universities have a 5-year reunion? Must be a new thing because my graduating class never had one. Probably better off that way because half the...
organizingthesoup:
[re: Jones Beach] We saw a bunch of people breaking the law…and we should’ve joined them (and gotten free ice cream from JM). Instead we went inside, looked for liquor, and were told by a proud employee, “We’re dry!” Next time, we’re double-fisting on the LIRR.
Yes, good idea! I attended a festival concert there years back, while I still owned a car, and you can imagine how...
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youngmanhattanite:
You’re missing the “I’ll always choose to go down fighting” tag.
I fought the law, and the drunk tank at Jones Beach won.
BP Photoshops Another Official Image Terribly
hyperallergic:
The internet wins again. BP 0 - Internet 1,000
conscientious:
Just scroll down to the comments to see some readers do a better job than BP.
BP UNLEASHES OIL ATTACK!!! 40,000,000,000 POINTS + CONSECUTIVE STATE HIT MULTIPLIER!!! HIGH SCORE!!!
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In which I travel back in time on the Internet and...
katiebakes:
Sorry to bring Rangers talk in here … but …
If anything, it’s the other way around. Neil Smith is an incredible talent scout, but his problem is that his bosses give him a payroll that is way too big and often money clouds everything else. Look at the two-time Cup winning Redwings…Neil Smith was the head scout when almost all of their key players were drafted. He drafted ...
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It is absolutely unacceptable that Wayne Chrebet was not on this list.
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Best Wiki ever
katiebakes:
hellofriend:
“On a cool, clear night, typical in Southern California, Warren G is traveling around his neighborhood, searching for women to have sex with. He’s chosen to engage in this pursuit alone.
Nate Dogg, however, has just arrived in Long Beach, seeking Warren. Ironically, Nate passes a car full of women who are excited to see him. He insists to the women that there’s no...
Riding bicycles is the safest mode of personal... →
youngmanhattanite:
mikehudack:
jayparkinsonmd:
Bicyclists killed in NYC in 2009 = 12
Pedestrians killed in NYC in 2009 = 155
There were 50% fewer bicycle deaths in NYC as compared to 2008, despite ridership increasing 26% since 2008.
There’s been some misinformation on the innernets regarding bicycles in NYC. I just wanted to clarify things.
Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t wear a helmet. ...
sheilamcclear:
OK obviously I’m biased re: the writer of the Post article, and also I work there, but still, this knee-jerk hysterical response on the part of the bikers is so childish, ganging up on immigrant shop owners who work 14-hour days.
Whether you like bike lanes or not (I ride my bike sometimes) the very idea of a “boycott” is abhorrent for a number of reasons I won’t get into...
jeninla replied to your photo:Front page of MSN right now. Really, guys? Is…
You don’t think you’re pretty, Brian Van?
The bigger problem is that I’m anxious about my weight, my height, the quality of my clothes, whether of not I’m having a good hair day, the pitch of my voice, etc… anything that’s not perfect or ideal… and that’s when I’m...
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mattharvey:
The real indictment of the web’s dominant reporting style—in which reporters are “shackled to their computers, where they try to eke out a fresh thought or be first to report even the smallest nugget of news”—is that it’s incapable of allocating two years uncovering “what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and ...
“Finally, in the third appeal, Chris Reeve just snaps and loses it, furious at the audience. “I don’t know what to say. Words cannot express my contempt for you people. You sit there stuffing your faces in your Reeboks and your Levis 501s. You don’t care about the children. You just want to beat the crowd out of the parking lot at the end of the movie. Well, as far...
