I’m singing Neil Young’s “Helpless” to myself right now – the entire NYC transit system is currently shut down due to flooding and most of my office is working from home – good thing we have a slick VPN set up where nothing is really affected. MTA officials are instructing people to “stay home for […]
I had no clue the Onion is doing video until I saw the clip below and after watching it, I for one am going to start watching more of their Onion News Network. Prepare to laugh – alot – so get your beverage away from the keyboard. Sometimes I feel like control-alt-deleting myself too… Via […]
Mothership, a two-CD compilation of 24 remastered tracks culled from all eight Led Zeppelin studio albums is scheduled to be released on November 13th 2007 on the Atlantic/Rhino records label. The tracklist was handpicked by surviving Zep members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones and will boast such signatures as Whole Lotta Love, […]
Like many people, I love the Simpsons. Seriously. I have seasons 2 – 11 on VHS tape because my mother said when I was in 7th grade, “You should tape the episodes if you like the show because its going to be canceled any day now.” That statement was made in the year 1990. In […]
I loved Brian May, the lead guitarist from “Queen” before but now I love him even more. It seems that being a rock god isn’t enough for him: he wants to finish the astrophysics degree which he put aside when “Queen” started to take off. While his thesis is titled “Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal […]
Recently I was sent a humor piece titled “The Seven Deadly Sins of Dating” written by Jonathan Selwood which was definitely good enough to share. Lust, envy, wrath, gluttony, pride, greed and sloth have never been so funny. If only “Seven” was like this – Brad Pitt would have been crying out of laughter, not […]
After watching a car careening around Paris, I thought of another unauthorized car ride around a metropolis: the famous car chase from “The French Connection” which is considered the best movie car chase of all time. The scene was filmed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn roughly running down the B (now the D) subway line which runs […]
The video below is from 1976, it was shot at 4 or 5 in the morning (which makes sense considering how little traffic is on the road – thankfully) and it is flat out ridiculous. If you have ever been to Paris, enjoy the ride!
It seems that I have not posted a damn thing for the past almost 3 weeks. It’s the summer: TV shows should be in repeats, your shrink should be away (oh wait, that is just August) and everything moves a bit, well, slower. That being said constant reader, look forward to a post barrage coming […]
Up to 126,000 Americans, Iraqis and other foreigners are working for the United States government in Iraq as contractors yet the toll the war’s toll on them has largely been hidden. About 1,000 have died since the conflict began, and nearly 13,000 have been injured. Although some are well paid, many more actually collect only […]