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Midtown Humanity On Parade, Volume 1
May 24, 2007 – 4:48 PM | 49 Comments

I remember my 17-year-old body — not well, because I had it half a lifetime ago, but I remember it, and my only regret about it is that I had to use it at a …

“Rank” for sure
May 21, 2007 – 7:34 PM | 13 Comments

I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with New York for years — never had a complaint with them as an employee, but as a subscriber, whenever I let my subscription lapse, it was because of …

AIDS Walk Benefit: Friday May 18
May 18, 2007 – 12:58 PM | 2 Comments

Please join me and the rest of Team SuperSnack at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn for a benefit concert/reading, Friday May 18  — songs! stories! guys on stilts! Information, ticketing, and a partial roster of …

Pledge-driving me nuts
May 15, 2007 – 2:01 PM | 32 Comments

I wish WNYC.org had some sort of code that let me skip the pledge-period haranguing now that I’ve already donated. Every time I have to restart the audio stream, Brian What’shisnuts is giving me guilt …

Recs Du Jour: “It Wasn’t THAT Funny” Edition
May 8, 2007 – 2:24 PM | 26 Comments

Stuff that made me laugh over the last 48 hours:
1. Russian performance art with cats. My favorite part: “A few minutes later police arrived and arrested them together with a few cats as a clue …

Signs
April 11, 2007 – 9:07 AM | 16 Comments

On my block, there is a deli.It is not a good deli; the coffee is awful, the ice-cream “selection” is buried in a grimy chunk of Hoth, and between the lottery people, the OCD bacon-sandwich …

Hockey hair optional
April 9, 2007 – 1:38 PM | 7 Comments

Joe R could use some help here, folks:

Need: a bar that’ll be showing the Islanders-Sabres playoff game next Friday night.
It’s for a Sabres fan (obviously), so on the off chance that some
Buffalo expat has …

Needed: bar in 212
April 6, 2007 – 11:22 AM | 8 Comments

We’d like to go out and watch the game tonight but we can’t settle on a place.   Desired specs:
1. Below 23rd Street; west side of Manhattan preferred
2. Not a super-crowded hipster joint — more …

The jerk store called
April 3, 2007 – 1:13 PM | 27 Comments

It’s from an old-ish issue, but I just yesterday ran across Time Out New York‘s Con Ed Awards For Bad Service.   I think they went too easy on Duane Reade — zombies aren’t usually …

Giving Is Such Sweet Sorrow
December 4, 2006 – 11:46 AM | One Comment

I can’t seem to get any holiday-shopping momentum going this year. I’d like to blame the weather, which had lodged itself firmly in t-shirt territory until two days ago, but it got cold Friday night …