Agents with NYC’s Parks Department fined a 10-year-old girl named Clementine and her dad for setting up a lemonade stand in Riverside Park without a permit. Instead of just asking the capitalist duo to leave, a $50 ticket was issued that ultimately won’t have to be payed: “A spokesperson for the Parks Department says the agents showed poor judgment and that the ticket will be dismissed.” |CBS|
Attention Queens residents: run for your lives! Rapper 50 Cent is throwing a free concert, for a charity, at the end of August and according to a “worried source” quoted in the New York Post, the show is going to turn into one giant bloodbath, it’s almost guaranteed: “Someone’s gonna try to make a name for themselves. They’re gonna take a shot at him, and they’re either gonna hit him or they’re gonna miss him and hit some poor, innocent kid or grandmother.” In quasi-related news, more people get murdered in NYC when its hot out, so pray for a cloudy day or death is imminent. |NYP|
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Wow, looks like someone pissed off Shepard Fairey. The wheatpasting vandal railed against TheEastSiderLA for their alleged portrayal of him as “anti-street art” just because he likes to keep his design studio free from street art. While he admits to using anti-graffiti chemicals to maintain the purity of Studio Number One’s walls, he denies hating vandalism. Fairey goes on to remind them how many times he’s been arrested—15—calls them “slime,” and accuses the editors of being economically motivated. He also insists they post their “home and office address” so people can damage their property. Read the full tirade below: Read more »
With all the creatures either invading JFK’s runways or getting rounded up to be murdered, it’s not all that surprising that there’s jackrabbits there too. From the man in charge of keeping the airport from turning into a zoo: “Any given day while working as a falconer at Kennedy I’ll see kestrels, peregrines, osprey, jackrabbits (yep, urban legend they escaped from a shipment there over 50 years ago) and muskrat, just to name of few.” |CityBirder via Gothamist|
Today marks the 64th anniversary of the official end to World War II. On August 15th, 1945 (August 14th in North America), six days after the United States did the unthinkable and became the first and only country to ever detonate a nuclear weapon against another enemy, the Japanese officially surrendered. The above photograph was taken in Times Square as crowds gathered to celebrate what became affectionately known as Victory Over Japan Day.
Charlize Theron is probably not a cokehead, but she does ramble on like one in an interview with Vogue about speaking freely and how it’s like doing cocaine or something, but then it’s like coming down and feeling guilty and this and that: “People tell me that cocaine makes you feel superhuman and you’ll say anything. Then when you come down like all of a sudden you have guilt. But I have that feeling innately, even without the cocaine.” Note: The whole “people tell me” thing is the celebrity way of projecting without the personal entanglement. |PopEater|
While the British are busy speaking that fancy version of English, their government is royally fucking them with “requests for surveillance” and continues to plunge the country into an Orwellian nightmare that would even frighten Eric Arthur Blair. In addition to having a camera up the arse (and nostrils) of virtually every citizen, “officials seek access to phone and email data 1,381 times a day,” reports the Guardian. Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne blames the British people themselves, saying “We have sleepwalked into a surveillance state” and describes how a certain author’s book is becoming a little too real:
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The acclaimed Harvard professor who was arrested on his own property for bruising a police officer’s ego has achieved the ultimate distinction: a street art homage. This poster with Henry Louis Gates’ mugshot and the words “I’ll speak with your mama outside” was spotted in downtown Cambridge. |TauntonGazette|
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If someone was going to make a ridiculously expensive head covering that’s not a crown, it kind of makes sense that they’d choose a Panama hat design. Only the world’s most ostentatious asshole could pull off a look like this or be willing to shell out the $100K it costs. |BornRich|
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