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I'm old. I want soup.
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On The Rent Is Too Damn Hilarious
Wait, what the hell? I just looked at that RentJuice chart and it has Williamsburg several hundred dollars less than Greenpoint?
Yeah, no. Go figure, that something called "RentJuice" is just randomly making shit up.
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On The Rent Is Too Damn Hilarious
That Greenpoint number seems too damn high. What is the source on that? I mean, I kind of hope it's true, since it finally means the rent stabilized place I've been clinging to is paying off, bigtime, and I am a winner. But if that's a true average, something is skewing it way high. I just can't figure out what the hell that would be. The luxo joints haven't been built yet. I suspect an actual *average* these days is around $2,000. And I still win.
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On You Still Won't Like The Three Stooges
Larry has always been my favorite, too. Just watch Larry. Moe and Curly (or Shemp, or, eesh, Curly Joe) are spazzing out ten ways to Sunday, but just watch Larry. He gets some quiet bits of business in that are really marvelous.
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On Okay, Help: What's Your Ideal Afternoon in Brooklyn for Tourists?
Am a little baffled by the multiple mentions of Smorgasburg. A gravel lot in the shadow of behemoth condo nonsense, grit blowing in your eyes, Port-a-Potties, and crowds of idiots lining up for expensive thimbles of gourmet food truck bullshit? I'd be one angry tourist if someone took me there.
I mean, every once in awhile I'll waltz through to see if there's some bottle of hot sauce or something I want to bring home, but screw the rest of that noise.
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On Okay, Help: What's Your Ideal Afternoon in Brooklyn for Tourists?
If it was Sunday, I'd say Junior's for lunch. Junior's when the church folk let out is great. Often a lot of ladies in them churchy hats of theirs.
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On Are You Jewish?
I get it from those guys every time they're out in the mitzvah tank. I am so very obviously of Irish descent that it's pretty much ridiculous. I've always assumed it's the red hair, but it's Irish clown red, not sandy Jewish red, so, you know, whatever.
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On How Much More Does A Steak Dinner Cost Today?
@CB in NOLA
Yah, the New York Public Libary has a fantastic menu collection, going back to at least the mid-19th Century. A couple of times in the last decade that I know of they've trotted a selection out for public exhibitions, and it's one of the most fascinating motherfucking things to go get a load of. The accompanying text pointed out the foods once sold on streetcorners everywhere by dirty immigrants, and on a blustery day I really wish I could come across a cart selling a baked potato, as once they did. How great would it be to trudge down a slushy brown winter street in New York with a fistful of steaming potato?
I'm sure they're available for research purposes, and probably online with a card. Though, haha, who the hell has a libary card anymore?
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On Let's Stop Pretending Herman Cain's a Real Thing
@Senor_Wences I hate people. If that choice isn't easy, just please crawl into your grave.
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On Do Bicyclists Deserve Sympathy?
I dislike both motorists and bicyclists, but at least motorists don't haul their stupid cars onto the subway with them. Look, you brought out your damn bike, ride it up top, on the street. You made your damn bike bed, freaking ride it. The subway is not for you. Pick one. You don't get to do both. Don't be all carrying your stupid bike up the stairs in front of me, with your damn dirty tire all in my face. Be a pedestrian, like decent people. Bicyclists on the subway should be ashamed of themselves, and then be jailed.