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Howard Dean Just Really Passionate About Strange, Well-Funded Issues

Choire Sicha — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:40:09 +0000

Hey, what's Howard Dean up to these days? Oh. He's a filthy little shill.

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Now We'll Never Know When Steve Buscemi Throws Away Hats

Choire Sicha — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:00:31 +0000

Oh no. One of the Internet's most wonderful things is closing up shop: "This morning I received a nice e-mail from Lucian Buscemi, Steve’s son, asking me to discontinue the blog. While the notion of going all V for Vendetta on Park Slope’s ass has its appeal, I don’t want to be slinking around the neighborhood taking pictures in defiance of the Buscemi family’s express wishes. I always said I would honor any request from Steve to stop documenting the activity on his stoop, and this is close enough. Accordingly, this blog is officially discontinued." What's On Steve Buscemi's Stoop was a masterpiece, a commentary on fame, on the impossibility of knowing others, and on the many wacky mysteries of New York City. While closing it down upon request is surely the right thing to do, we are all poorer for its death.

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Sad News, Russian Bears

Alex Balk — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:00:14 +0000

"For two years, a 36-year-old bear who performed during the 1980 Moscow Olympics has been kept with other retired circus animals in a rusty old bus parked on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.... Since her retirement in 2009, Katya and the painted bus on which she once toured with the circus have not left a parking lot near a busy highway. The aging bear spends the long hours jumping up and down in her cage and trying to crack the rusty metal railings with her chipped and yellowed teeth." It is hard to believe, but this story gets worse.

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Happy 40th, River Phoenix

Choire Sicha — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:35:08 +0000

Happy 40th birthday, River Phoenix! Oh right. Dead. Don't do heroin.

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Gay Games Starts... Anonymously

Choire Sicha — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:49:14 +0000

The Gay Games are starting tomorrow in Germany... and pretty much everyone there is traveling under a pseudonym. Especially Mexico's big gay soccer team.

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'The Big Money' Runs Out Of Such

Choire Sicha — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:14:07 +0000

The Big Money is out of money.

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Russia Has A Drunk-Drowning Epidemic

Choire Sicha — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:50:59 +0000

It's been a billion degrees in Russia since mid-June, and as a consequence, 1200 people have drowned-and"49 people, including two children, had drowned in the last day," is what CNN says. "The majority of those drowned were drunk," said Vadim Seryogin, a department head at Russia's Emergencies Ministry. "The children died because adults simply did not look after them." I don't really have a funny name for Russia to go with this because somehow this seems sadder than English people stabbing each other constantly, though it's probably not.

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The Curse of the Lottery Takes Another

Choire Sicha — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:50:51 +0000

How come everyone who wins the lottery just doesn't know the rules? Basically, it's just like the Final Destination franchise. You are on death's radar. When you win the lottery, you must immediately stop smoking, stop drinking, stop eating meat, you go to the doctor like once a week (or you get your OWN doctor! Live-in!) and you basically put yourself inside the bubble. No jaywalking. No skydiving. No futzing around. And you know why? Because when you win the second biggest lottery in Britain's history you will inevitably drop dead, at the age of 59, just five years later. (If no one stabs you first, of course.)

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Hoax McRibble Too Beautiful To Exist

Choire Sicha — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:00:35 +0000

Sad news (for wild animals that eat out of dumpsters): "The McRibble," as glorious and end-of-the-empire and probable as it may sound, is a hoax, McDonald's tells Consumerist. Sure it is. The truth is out there, etc.

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Fleet Week Ends With, Presumably, Some Whimpering

Choire Sicha — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:50:55 +0000

There they go. Sailing out of our lives the same way they just sailed in. Sniff. (Photo by.)

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