Even though it’s anything-but-beach weather in the Sunset, I’ve decided we’re taking a slight detour through some beach related news today, so hang onto your Lotto visers boys and girls, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
It’s been a big week for Coney Island. As the beachfront neighborhood wears down it’s third last summer in [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Coney Island’
July 23, 2009
Life’s a Beach!
July 1, 2009
Top Ten NYC Sucks of June ‘09
There’s very few days of the week when I DON’T miss the fuck out of New York City, but if there was ever a time to leave, it seems like this June was it.
It all started with the endless, endless rain that swept the city from Floral Park to Coney Island and the George Washington [...]
June 16, 2009
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 hear.
GLOBE:
More than a billion people go hungry, says the World Food Program. That’s about as [...]
June 10, 2009
Daily Oddities, June 9th/10th
We’re starting this round of Daily Oddities with something everybody wants–a job! Today’s odd job listings include counting bees in New York City and catelouging controlled substances for the NYPD. Awesome much?
Now that you’re gainfully employed, lets take a quick gander around the globe.
GLOBE: Things are getting ridiculous in Russia, where the racing collapse of [...]
April 19, 2009
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 least i’m thin”
Usually in those exact words . Anyone who knows me knows that i write [...]
March 11, 2009
The Reimagineers, Chapter 11: Sept. 7th, The Coney Island Apocalypse
I’m already several chapters past this, but it felt like a good time to share. Cuz I FELT LIKE IT, motherfuckers
CHAPTER 11: SEPT. 7TH, 2008—THE CONEY ISLAND APOCALYPSE:
Look up.
There in the sky, ten thousand feet straight up from here, a four-and-a-half year old refugee with thick plastic glasses will see his first American seagull. He [...]
March 3, 2009
The Unbreakable New York Yellow
In a time of unprecedented belt-tightening, there is one industry that never stumbles—and no, it’s not foreclosure agents and short-sellers. It’s taxi service. Yes, hard-hit New Yorkers and those no longer commuting downtown to work every day are likely to scale back their yellow cab consumption, but as long as there are credit-card readers in [...]
February 13, 2009
Terrorist, moi? Why the Maya Arulpragasam LTTE-drama is NYT Tiger-shit
The fact that it takes an emphatically pregnant young rapper who samples Bollywood and AK47s, writes songs about Bird Flu and does Day-Glo animal-print schizophrenia as an ethos rapping with Jay-Z on her due date to make us stand up and take notice of a conflict an order of magnitude more deadly than the one in Gaza should say something about us, not her.
February 8, 2009
The 3WI NYC Recession Survival Diet
Looking for a way to save money in one of the world’s most expensive cities can be a challenge. Even if you buy all your shoes at V.I.M. in Coney Island ($10 Nikes are totally worth the schlep) and your rent gets knocked down a peg after your elevator is permanently disabled, the cost [...]
January 1, 2009
New Year’s Miracles (not so much)
The first post of 2009 comes in the form of a warning: be careful what you wish for. Or, more precisely, be careful what you write about—it might just come true.
First, there’s the tragedy of 61-year-old livery-cab driver Khadim Bhatti, who was killed on the job in Coney Island Wednesday morning in pretty much the same time, [...]
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