In 1995, I won a poetry contest for kids on Compuserve. The prize was an America’s Funniest Home Videos t-shirt. Once I repressed got over my dad’s refusal to let me get AOL (FATHER, WHY?!) thereby rendering me a giant loser/pariah who couldn’t instant message, I became hooked on using the internet for everything Read More
Apparently Josh Duhamhel (aka husband to the Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie) got kicked off a flight out of LaGuardia for refusing to turn off his phone. When you’re that rich, can’t you just use the in-flight phone?
We found Waldo. He’s hailing a cab to get outta the public eye.
This Read More
What’s that? You miss Four Loko? Don’t worry, there’s a whipped cream with booze in it, called “Whipped Lightning.” Flavors include amaretto and white chocolate “whipahol,” and it apparently contains 18% alcohol. Eddie Huang, are you out there?
Or, for the classier Read More
Originally published by Minyanville.com.
The easiest thing in the world to do is say “Wall Street is evil” and throw every hedge fund under the bus.
I’ve read a lot of news reports overnight and virtually every one of them adopted the same populist cry. I even saw Inspector Kemp interviewed on Read More
The 50th anniversary party for Dorrian’s looked, well, exactly as you would have expected.
Pete Hamill says keep dreaming, boys and girls, for the future of The Internet: “The youngsters I meet at NYU have true passion. They want to do good, solid, reported work. I think they will get the Read More
- Here lies Four Loko, commemorated with a vigil in Union Square. Blackout in a can, we hardly knew ye.
- Ever wonder what it’s like to be on the party circuit in New York? Well, now you can find out. Hint: you can wear Forever21 clothing to meet Marc Jacobs, Read More
- Tom Wolfe is great for many reasons, including the fact that he wears white tuxedos and the fact that he was quoted last night blaming computer screens’ poor backlighting for the mortgage crisis. Also, his books are good.
- No. NO! A bedbug on a subway seat! No one is safe. At Read More
- No aspiring Oliver Twists in New York, it seems, as pickpockets are now a dying breed. That said, if you get drunk and pass out on the train, don’t expect to wake up with your iPod.
- Remember when we said that thing about the Kardashians shirking their party responsibilities? Well, Read More
More than 1,000 lawsuits are coming soon that will target the victims of Bernard Madoff and ask them to give back money they thought was theirs. Those civil complaints will be filed by lawyers from Baker & Hostetler, the firm of Irving Picard, the bankruptcy trustee in the Bernard Madoff case.
Picard faces a hard Read More
-The Kardashian sisters get paid tens of thousands of dollars just to go to a party and sit there looking pretty for a few hours. And yet they shirk these responsibilities!
-Heh. Camel markets to Brooklyn hipsters. Next up: American Spirit smoking lounge to open at the Bedford stop on the Read More
