Recently, I took a LIRR train out to visit my mom and was appauled to see that the “big board” train schedule sign has changed from the “old school” rotating sign to a new electronic model. I for one absolutely hate this change. Something major has been lost in the update and its not just […]
The World Cup started about an hour ago. I’m currently in a bar with a laptop, borrowing someone’s wi-fi signal, watching Germany play Costa Rica, drinking a Stella and doing work. Footie Fever has infected me and I guess the only cure will be for July 10th to arrive (the final is 7/9). I thought […]
This is what it is like to be and feel old. It is to wake up each day and to feel that everything good has passed, at least in terms of an apex, at least in terms of appreciation of said apex. Nothing produced today, no art, no music, no films, etc can equal the […]
I saw this scene where Darth Vader has to break the Death Star destruction news to the Emperor the other week on Robot Chicken and found it hilarious. Today, it showed up on Chris’s site. I didn’t realize that there was a clip of it at YouTube but I should have. I swear, You Tube […]
For all those potheads out there, WGTCTIP2 has some good news for you. To follow up on a post from a few months back about the long term effects of smoking marijuana, according to the findings of a new study at the University of California Los Angeles “that surprised even the researchers,” marijuana smoking does […]
An Inconvient Truth opens this coming Friday, 5/26 and I for one cannot wait to see it, even though it may very well be “the most terrifying film you will ever see” as its producers claim. Wired and other media outlets have written alot lately about how Al Gore, freed from politics, is focusing all […]
Freddy “Freddy Sez” Schulman, my favorite octogenarian Yankee fan, is in the NY Times today, which is great timing considering I went to the Yankee game last week and talked all about Freddy to my co-worker Tony, who was not familiar with him. To me, seeing Freddy is a rite of Spring. When I hear […]
Okay, this clip of Shane karaoking almost broke my ears but it also really made me smile, in a painfully funny way. Be prepared. Via Jessie
Watching this YouTube “Evolution of Dance” clip is a fantastic way to get a smile on your face. It’s 6 minutes long and totally worth it – damn this white boy can move! Via Chris
The Center for American Progress said it better than I could: SCANDAL-TIED CIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RESIGNS CIA Executive Director Kyle “Dusty” Foggo “announced his resignation in an e-mail message to agency staff” yesterday, leading to further speculation that the recent CIA upheaval is “linked to the broadening bribe probe centered on disgraced former California GOP […]