Do you have a Twitter account that you barely use anymore (or stopped using altogether)? Same. Because Twitter blows and its megalomaniac owner/mouthpiece Elon Musk is a lunatic attention whore who’s made an already mostly unsafe place basically intolerable. I’m not quite ready to delete my account just yet, but I did finally have to block Musk from delivering his nut-job rants to my feed (I’ve never followed him) by blocking him completely. If you need to do so as well, please then make a post using the hashtag that I made up for this occasion #nofussnomusk because I would love to see that trend. Thank you, please drive through.
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Holiday Photo Of The Day: Letters For Santa Mailbox
Spotted In Stuyvesant Town, East Village NYC (Photo By Gail)
Seasons Beatings, Dear Readers. Is the sending of Christmas / Holiday cards something you enjoy doing? I generally do. I don’t think I’ve missed a year of mailing out dozens of cards to friends and family since I moved to NYC 32 years ago. But this year it’s been difficult to rustle-up the energy to get the card-sending thing together. Confession: that’s mostly due to my lack of access to a printer for creating the address labels, and the fact that my hands don’t work quite as well as they used to for holding a pen for hours on end. Just being serious! Continue reading Holiday Photo Of The Day: Letters For Santa Mailbox
Hey Douche! Put Your Phone Down And Watch Where You’re Going!
Stencil Street Art By Adam Dare, Photographed By Gail on Bleecker Street
On occasion, there will be an article in the paper or on the web about a person who inadvertently falls down an open manhole or (and this is especially fun if there is Video Documentation) trips and stumbles into a fountain in the middle of a busy shopping mall, because he or she is so enraptured with gazing dreamily at his or her smart phone that they forget to watch where they are going. Hilarious! When I read these articles or see these videos, I am filled with an overwhelming feeling of schadenfreude. Because it is my pleasure to see you injured because you are too brain dead to put your phone down and pay attention to where you’re walking. Continue reading Hey Douche! Put Your Phone Down And Watch Where You’re Going!
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love Justin Bieber: A Music Industry Insider Ponders The Decline Of Popular Music
(A Guest Blog By Terry Douglas)
I really think the moment the “music died” (popular/rock based music) was the day that Kurt Cobain (or whoever killed him!) blew his brains out. Now, allow me a moment (hopefully not being too long winded and redundant) to give you an abbreviated, yet somewhat concise opinion of how we got to where we are now… Continue reading How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love Justin Bieber: A Music Industry Insider Ponders The Decline Of Popular Music
What the Hell is Up with American Apparel and Their $6 Scrunchies?
Cheap Scrunchies Rule, OK
I realize that wearing a scrunchie in the hair is verboten in accepted fashion circles. But fuck that: I have very long hair that needs to be tied up on my daily commute through the PATH train wind tunnels, or if I am in any kind of breeze at all, otherwise I’ve got my hair flying all over the place and sticking to my lipstick and all kinds of unacceptableness. So, the scrunchie is pretty much a part of my daily accessorizing ritual, as it keeps the hair tied back neatly while adding a little splash of color to whatever outfit I am wearing.
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