On Wednesday this past week, I hit the Hudson River Road Crossing Trifeca, travelling across the GWB, the Lincoln Tunnel and the Holland Tunnel all within 6 hours. I’m not sure if this is cool or not but I thought I’d share in case. While this is not exactly like the guy who is living […]
When I worked in retail clothing during high school in Roosevelt Field, the brightest star in the LI mall constellation, I had to listen to the store’s musical soundtrack four times during a shift. The tapes were exactly two hours long, were controlled and sent by Corporate and changed on a monthly basis. Music became […]
I wish this was a joke but it is not: this Pakistan Airlines ad appeared in the March 19th, 1979 issue of Le Point (and surely countless other publications). As 2spare.com points out, the shadow is in pretty much in the same place as where the planes hit on September 11th, and there’s no way […]
The new year always brings new resolutions. Mine this year is twofold: to try and post more frequently and to change my eating habits. For the first one, in the words of Michael Pollan, the author of In Defense of Food, I plan to “eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” For the second, as […]
Who wouldn’t want their very own decorative Flux Capacitor? Maybe someone wants an actual working one, that’s who. How much does 1.21 gigawatt’s worth of power equal anyway? Via Neu
Maybe you, like me, have been getting a lot of “you would be perfect for this job” spam emails lately. These emails try to dupe you into thinking that you are filling out a real job application in order for the spammer to collect reams of personal information about you. Usually, these fake applications for […]
Stairway to Here, a Led Zeppelin returns review in the NYer, by Sasha Frere-Jones is a quality review of the show. The genius of the piece is that she pens a turn of phrase that quite effectively sums up how I feel about the band: “My affection for Led Zeppelin is limitless and somewhat irrational.” […]
The Golden Age of Geekdom continues into this coming summer as even more comic book adaptations are hitting the big screen. What better way to celebrate entry #600 on WGTCTIP2 than to talk comics? First off, I confess that I have yet to see “FF: Rise of the Silver Surfer” which came out last summer […]
They said it could not be done, that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema hated each other so much due to post LOTR legal & fiscal squabbling that Jackson would never, never, ever have a chance to direct a “Hobbit” movie. Well, they were only half wrong, because reports today are surfacing that not one […]
It was only a matter of time: Digital wanted signs have arrived and are already proving to be quite effective. One guy in Alabama was on the run for 10 days – the police had no leads except for his photo. So, the police posted his photo to a digital billboard which acted as a […]