On 17 Better Names for the Color of the New NYC Taxi Cabs than "Apple Green"
Aren't subway/sewer alligators traditionally albino?
Sky before the Brooklyn Bro-tornado green
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On Killer Diaresis Keeps New Yorker Editors Living In Fear
@boyofdestiny LIVE FREE OR DIE-ARESIS
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On Public Awareness Campaign Working
"Shiv", however, has gone up. I blame The Wire.
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On Crying Button Accurate For Entire Content Of Internet
REBLOB IF U CREY ):
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On 'The Secret History': I Know What You Did Last Reading Period
@RonMwangaguhung No! It totally reminded me of The Magus. I recently described it as "semi-trashy, let's say John Fowles-trashy."
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On Buying The Bottom Shelf: An Adventure In Cheap Liquor
@Matt I was about to say, Rittenhouse over Ol' Holt Jesus Christ you have to be kidding me.
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On The Scourge Of Pour-Over Coffee
@Annie K. This is a local shop, for local people, there's nothing for you here.
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On Boy Happy
Wait about 20 years, kid, and you'll find yourself in a fourth floor walkup with a Clavinova you're usually too drunk to play after coming home from your soul-crushing science postdoc with no hope of a paper much less career advancement, and every time you scrounge up money to go to Carnegie Hall, you'll pull a flask out of your bag and say, "I performed here once, when I was younger," and nobody will believe you...
not that I am speaking from personal experience or anything ):
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On Heroes And Villains
If my behavior on the subway is any example, I am the person who hovers near where the next lifeboat was expected to arrive, muttering rude comments under their breath, initially trying to cram on then wussing out at the last second like "oh, ugh, there'll be another one in a minute," and then that's the last lifeboat and they're dead.
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On 'Gone With The Wind': Devil In A Black Bombazine Dress
Aaah I read this in maybe 5th grade, when I was too young/innocent to really get the Holy Institutionalized Racism, and the sociopathy of the heroine, and wow was it different reading it as an adult!
Fun Fact: My great-great-(great?)-grandmother worked with Margaret Mitchell at the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine! She went on to write the most ridiculous cookbook ever. "Put in proper oven, cook until done." !!!