This brief article from the New York Times begins by asking who hasn't thought about what you'd do if you fell onto the subway tracks. I've certainly wondered, and more to the point I've wondered what it would be like to press
Damn, this is a shame, and damn, I wish I'd known sooner: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/nyregion/31coliseum.html
Via █████: I Elfed myself.
I love Christmas music, but "The Twelve Days of Christmas" can be pretty tedious to listen to. Especially so as an instrumental number, where each verse gets that much more repetitive than the previous one. Something you might want to think about.
My subway reading the past couple of days has been the Bruce Sterling collection Globalhead. This morning I was sailing right through—until I decided to change things up and take a different route to work. When I hopped onto the 6 train downtown, I entered the flow of a
Whoever told Lidle he couldn't hit the side of a building must be feeling awful this morning.
I really don't want that much of the sidewalk. I'm only asking for the width of my shoulders. So why is it, when there's more than enough room for three big guys to walk abreast, and there are only two of you coming my
So I have a chance to review the new Mike Judge film Idiocracy, opening September 1st in New York and Los Angeles ... if only I can fucking find it. I've scoured the Web for information, including the movie ticketing sites, including the 20th Century Fox site, and gotten
Just a quick reminder that I will be reading with Elizabeth Bear a/k/a ❦matociquala this evening at Manhattan's KGB Bar at 7:00 pm. Doors open 6:30 pm. Admission is free! Details KGB is at 85 East 4th Street, near Second Avenue.
I was half-listening to WNYC this morning as I made the last preparations to leave, when suddenly I heard my friend Ali's voice on the radio. We had noticed that his restaurant, Kabab Cafe, has been closed since the blackout, and we keep stopping by to see if
Okay, okay, God, we get it. We'll curtail our greenhouse gas emissions a lot. We'll pour all our research dollars into alternative fuels. We'll stop fucking around with oil, not to mention fighting over access to that poison. Just, for Christs's sake,
After the various indignities of the day and long night, some of which were heaped upon me by others, some of which I heaped upon myself, I was finally on my way home from work last night at 2:15 am when the cab I was riding in stopped in
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