Posts tagged as NYC
Highlights From The New York Gubernatorial Debate
This is actually pretty much all you need to know about last night's circus. Paladino campaign spokesman Michael Caputo's explanation of his boss' early departure from the stage to hit the men's room-"When you gotta go, you gotta go"-deserves to go down in New York political lore.
Carl Paladino: The Movie
Our friends over at Taiwan's most amazing animation factory are killing it. The Pultizer organization needs to make a new category for CGI animation of the news just so they get what they deserve.
The Recession's Bravest: I Was an English Major Who Taught Your Children Math
When my manager at the test prep company called me to teach a summer school program, I jumped on the opportunity. I was six months out of New York University, and I was determined to stay in New York to become a writer. The only obstacle was New York's price of living, and the impending deluge of student debt. READ MORE
Random New Yorker: Shaka Shervington, Maintenance Man, Future Therapist
Tell me about your job. READ MORE
Royce Mullins and The Case of Virtue's Burn, A Novel: Chapter 6
The last man I punched was the owner of a vegan grocery store. In general, I don't take issue with the vegans, but I'd recently discovered this particular soy-milquetoast had been having it tantric with Claudette who, at that point, I had still planned to make my common-law wife. I caught up with the vegan in the produce aisle and clipped him in the ear. He told me that no amount of fisticuffs would make Claudette love me again, and then he had me arrested. READ MORE
Beware of This Woman: Emily Smith
This write-up on Page Six's new honcho delivers an old-fashioned thrill: does New York City again have a chief gossip hustler that can inspire fear? It's been a while! So look out for tiny blonde women with English accents. (Not that you weren't already afraid of such.) Ms. Emily Smith is a five-footer, surely appealing to men, who are always stupid about talking to women in the first place, and is also apparently incredibly lethal. She actually might make Page Six fearsome again.
"My God Runs New York"
after work i walk to the whole foods in tribeca where you can just walk in and go upstairs to the seating area and use two hours of free wifi, even if you don't buy any food, and i post a blog entry and then mike meets me and we eat dinner and then he brings me to an art party in Nolita, on Prince St. and either Elizabeth St. or Mott St., and when we get there i see some fashion models smoking outside and i try to comb my hair with my hand but it won't stay in the position i move it into so i put a cap on and then we walk in READ MORE
'NYDN': Favre "Too Little"
This is way harsh back-cover treatment in light of, you know, his alleged naked pics. (via)
Freak Storm Attacks New York (Again), Now With Extra Hail
This picture, by Reid Epstein of Newsday, is of hail. Tom Keaney agrees! Yup that is icy, icy hail. It appears to be strongest (and hippest) in Brooklyn. Hug your cats, this is the end times!
For A Tiny Man, Mike Bloomberg Has Enormous Balls
"It would be a disaster if the government tries to get in to run small businesses. If they run the bars and restaurants, they'll try to run everything else. This is going down a path which is a terrible, terrible idea and would be disastrous for New York City." READ MORE
