Category Archives: Brooklyn
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Daily Oddities, July 23rd, 2009
We’ve got lots to talk about today, so lets get right down to the real serious stuff. Globe: Things still really suck for EU little cousins Bulgaria and Romania, where infighting, corruption and graft are making it difficult to get … Continue reading
Cheating, made simple
GOOD magazine has an article about the new market for lying, cheating and otherwise behaving badly without getting caught at it. For a pretty penny, you can get fake receipts, Phony ATM records, falsified alibis and corrupted word files (ones … Continue reading
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Daily Oddities: July 17, 2009
It’s another day in the neighborhood, and Oddities are all around us. In fact, I’d say it’s a banner week for weird. Brooklyn: Despite preliminary approval for the city’s first Wal-Mart, Brooklynites are still fighting the man, while the Man uncovers … Continue reading
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Your Intifada was Made in China: Commodity Fetishism Killing Palestine
A version of this is up at Mother Jones, but this one is too hard for the homepage. Oh the keffiyeh. How long have I waited, in vain, for you to die? Before it was the emblem of the hipster generation, … Continue reading
Daily Oddities: Monday World Edition
There’s a lot to talk about in the World today, so lets jump right into it. You know about Tehran and you know about Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech, so we’re skipping that and getting straight down into the stuff you didn’t … Continue reading
This Week: Transit Oddities
This week, NY Mag’s Daily Intel wants to know: Would you rather give birth on the R train or the B61 bus? It’s not an idle question. Back to back MTA births last week confirm what we always knew—public transit … Continue reading
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the things i like to write about (are weird)
From time to time, when I am writing, I have this thought—which I occasionally post on FB: “sometimes i sit down and i write some shit and i think, holy mother of G-d i am a sick, terrible person. at … Continue reading
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