Despite the Post’s aggressive fear mongering attempts and the NYPD’s desperate assurances that mass murder would erupt, 50 Cent performed on Saturday in his old Queens neighborhood and not one drop of blood was spilled. Always the gentleman, he even gave the cops a shout out of sorts. “I ain’t never seen this before. That’s the motherfucking police, you see them up there, now everybody wave,” said the rapper to the crowd. In addition to the warm welcome, he invited the legions of law enforcement to stand down and enjoy the show: Read more »

Once a week (or so), Copyranter brings you retro advertising good/badness. Oh, like you’re just too damn sophisticated for a little semantical dick joke (See what I did there? “Semantical” almost starts with “semen.”). Seventy-eight year-old WSJ owner Rupert Murdoch would certainly appreciate this subscription ad from long ago—He’d probably pay $15,000 for each and every non-pill-created boner he could muster for the rest of his life. Read more »

They may not be the biggest or dirtiest, but New York’s rats are no less detestable. Over the weekend I had the pleasure of watching nature do its part to control the furry rodents in Prospect Park. A Red-tailed Hawk swooped down and plucked a rat out of Long Meadow, before shredding and devouring its carcass as a small crowd of onlookers quietly applauded.

Photos by Will Sherman

Twitter gives the world access to people’s most mundane details and it’s amazing how many women love to announce to the world that, yes, they’re on the rag. Here are today’s brave, bloated over-sharers. Read more »

Over the weekend a friend of mine sent me this photo she took with her phone as she was walking downtown in the area of Wall Street. These two are truly Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves.