May 2008
12 posts
Four Things That Happened in the New York City...
a daily briefing from the archives of the New York Times: “Some boys were annoying August Levin on St Paul’s avenue, Jersey City Heights yesterday, when he picked up a stone and, throwing it with great force, struck James Gorman, aged ten years, in the mouth, knocking out several teeth and badly disfiguring him. Levin, how had just completed a term in the Penitentiary, was committed...
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Episode #355 of This American Life does a great... →
zachklein: Listen to the episode for free online. Besides the fantastic, narrative way it breaks down the mortgage crisis, one of the things I love about this episode (which I’m still finishing) is its focus on how nobody believed housing prices could possibly go down. You have people whose entire income was built on the idea that since houses would always increase in value, the people at...
“DO NOT open bottles with your teeth! You will chip your teeth! Many of my molars...”
– comment from How To Open A Beer Without An Opener
“Schaap puts his frenzied memory and his obsessive attention to the arcane in the...”
– David Remnick, “Bird-Watcher”, the New Yorker
“it was weird… the muttering, the crashing, the cheetos”
– Raul, on his harrowing cab ride
“Do not tell them they smell bad straight up.”
– WikiAnswers - How do you tell someone they smell bad?
nick: wouldn't Mikhail McHale be a cool name? russian-irish.
AIM: *nick is now offline*
“White People, Go Back To Europe”
– A paper sign flapping against the side of a bicycle ridden by a white person. He was Irish, and said he was “saving up for a ticket.”
The Three Most Hazardous Moving Objects For...
Windowless Vans Delivery Bikes Going The Wrong Way Down One Way Streets Traffic Cops