Just one surfing ticket has been issued this year on Long Island and Rockaway Beach by city and state parks department. And now that sole summons has been tossed out, further evidence that authorities are backing off ticketing surfers in supposedly off limits areas.
Reverend Billy Talen won’t be the only musical in the mayoral race this year. Tomorrow in Times Square, underwear clad crooner the Naked Cowboy will announce his candidacy, running on a platform of “bringing transparency to a whole new level.” Of course he does have to gather 7,500 signatures before he can get on the ballot, and his tourist fans don’t count. |NYP|
Brooklyn Woman Flaunts Her Filth
Unashamed of living in squalor, a Crown Heights woman is vieing to win a nationwide “Dirtiest Apartment” contest. 29-year-old Lisa Henderson is “our for bragging rights,” and the $1000 top prize for the highest ranked filthy apartment dweller. In her online entry, Henderson describes the “self-induced squalor.” Read more »
Celebrity gossipers at TMZ are grossed out that someone would take an upskirt photo of Paris Hilton. So much so, that they posted a video of the shameful incident. After replaying a clip showing LA photographer The Arab Parrot “creep up behind her and put his camera up her skirt and take a shot,” producer Harvey Levin chimes in: “I was just going to say how creepy that is….It’s just creepy on every level.” Read more »
Nissan Bravely Mocks Blenders & Vacuums
Let’s see: what other motorized devices is a Nissan vehicle badder-ass than? Golf carts? An electric toothbrush? The Roomba? Yes, there is a REASON no one dreams of their first fucking vacuum cleaner. That’s because—stay with me here—vacuum cleaners fucking suck because they are used to fucking clean, and cleaning fucking sucks. Am I warm, TBWA Toronto (the creators of this absolutely mind-boggling Canadian campaign)? And what’s with the fucking annoying line break on the bus ad? At least a bus is something else besides a Nissan that is driven on roads. Yep. if I was in the market for a sports car, I’d definitely chose a Nissan over a fucking bus. |Images: AdsOfTheWorld|
Eleven years after being shot by one of his subordinate officers, former NYPD sergeant Dexter Brown has settled a wrongful injury lawsuit against the city for $3.25 million. Brown subdued a suspect during a Bed Stuy drug bust, “but was shot twice in the back by Detective Luis Lopez,” who then shot and killed a second unarmed suspect. The friendly fire victim says officers were not trained in “justifiable use of deadly force” and too quick in targeting minorities. |NYDN|
Facing a string of robbery charges, 20-year-old Joshua Walter isn’t letting go of his dreams, insisting, “I still am modeling.” However, the former Hugo Boss model, accused of sticking up more than a dozen gas stations and corner stores, wouldn’t say who he’s modeling for on the Bronx jail barge where he’s locked up. |NYP|
Parting Shot: Don’t Fuck With… [Insert Saying Here]
Behold the evolving, communal style of discourse that spray paint in Bushwick provides.
Photo by Becki Fuller
Jason Kottke offers the chance to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing live as people did 40 years ago: huddled around a crappy television set with the late Walter Cronkite announcing. The landing was broadcast already but the moonwalk will air at 10:51 PM tonight. |Kottke|
As Curbed notes, this hyper strange “system of modular floating docks designed to harness energy from the tidal action of New York City’s rivers” will probably never be built, but look how cool the renderings are anyway. |Curbed|
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