There’s a sort-of trend piece in today’s New York Times about how the economy’s so awful that loads of people are applying to become cops out of desperation for a job. Buried within that piece is an interesting quote from former Washington Mutual financial adviser turned cop comparing his current dealings with people as a police officer to his former dealings with people as a finance dude. Read more »
South American “drug lords” are stepping up their game big time according to U.N. officials, who say its the first time they’ve ever seen a Boeing jet used to smuggle cocaine from one continent to another. Now if they could only manage a proper getaway. |AFP|
Surprisingly, the spineless City Council passed a new resolution allowing for a five-minute grace period on parking regulations, a measure the mayor is adamantly opposed to and promises to veto. |NYP|
While it’s applaudable for the MTA to finally get around to installing arrival clocks in subway stations just like other transit systems around the world, it should be interesting to see whether they delight straphangers or piss them off even more. Will the clocks “improve the customer experience” like the transit agency hopes or just serve as poignant digital reminders of just how late the trains are running? Best not install these things on the G-line anytime soon. |NYDN|
Page Six reports today that Anthony Michael Hall, he of the 80′s hit films Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and the National Lampoon’s Vacation flicks, has been order to stay away from Huffington Post “relationship columnist” and Julia Allison wannabe Diana Falzone after going all Chris Brown on her. This is sort of disturbing. Read more »
Last night on the Fox News network, two ejaculations that should have been swallowed some time during the mid-20th century held a very serious policy discussion regarding President Blackie McMuslimcommunist and how he’s systematically destroying America by bending over for the Mexicans, Arabs, Asians, etc. Read more »
On Monday 200 Italian women showed up to a Villa in Rome after answering an ad that read, “Seeking 500 attractive girls between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 foot, 7 inches) tall, well-dressed but not in mini-skirts or low cut dresses.” In return for showing up, the women were promised money and “Libyan gifts.” Read more »
Between their misuse as protest weapons and otherwise, there’s not much to envy about a cow’s life, certainly not when they’re grazing a garbage dump in Indonesia. |WSJ|
You see that there deer? It was hit by a car in Delaware and stuck inside the grill, so the driver of the car drove to a police station, where the nice local cops dislodged the deer and released it, only for it to be shot at by a passing motorist as it was being released. Somehow the deer survived all of this calamity and remains at large to be killed another day and served in a tasty venison chili with buttered Saltines on the side. |NBC|
Out of broken toys, mechanical parts and other detritus, artist Kris Kukis builds intriciately macabre sculptures requiring a studied look. A “scavenger of pop-cultural castoffs,” the Kansas-based artist opens an exhibition of these assemblages, which include St. Anthony, patron of lost causes, darkly pondering a small soldier in one hand and a spiked bat in the other. “Beast Anthology” opens November 21st at Joshua Liner Gallery.
“Beast Anthology,” November 21 – December 19, Joshua Liner Gallery, 548 West 28th, 3rd Floor
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