True to their word, Ad Hoc Art continues showcasing their artists despite the September closure of their permanent Bushwick space. The gallery recently coordinated a new wall painting by M-City, his New York debut in Long Island City. Stenciled in black and white, the mural featuring the Polish street artist’s signature collage of buildings and smokey machinery is a fitting complement to the dreariness of the street’s dirty snow and ice. Read more »
Cock-bomb-gate just gets better by the second…two of the “masterminds” behind the botched bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit were released from from the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay in November of 2007, under the regime of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Irony! |ABC News|
Graffiti artist EZO has been pasting up some new works on the streets. The series of poster illustrations features a Grinch-like Mayor Bloomberg, appropriately timed for the holiday season. Similarly, the New York-based artist takes on Chase Bank, FOX, scantily-clad gunslingers as well as any detractors, proclaiming himself a “sellout” and “gallery outlaw” lest they say it first. Read more »
Just when you thought it wasn’t humanly possible to loathe Republican muppet Joe Lieberman any more than you already do, the worst human asshole on the planet is now going around saying America needs to “act preemptively” with Yemen because some misguided son of a rich asshole tried to ignite a cock-bomb on a plane over Detroit after allegedly getting an email from al Qaeda. Read more »
Lawyers representing Demi Moore are threatening to sue Boing Boing and a few other blogs for slander after they dared to point out the obvious: that a chunk of her hip appears to have been Photoshopped out of the cover of the American issue of W magazine. Read more »
The Army Corps of Engineers has triumphantly announced that they’ve wiped out graffiti in the LA River. Yes, months after contractors began covering up SABER’s giant piece and MTA’s massive roller, the glorified ditch has been whitewashed, thanks in no small part to more than $800k in federal stimulus funding. Read more »
Memo from AT&T to all New Yorkers who may have been hoping to ring in the new year with a brand spanking new iPhone: go fuck yourselves! According to one of their reps, “New York is not ready for the iPhone.” Wait, what?! Read more »
Good news fellow New Yorkers and tourists alike. Although people might be stabbing and punching each other like crazy, murders are way down and we could be on our way to setting a record low. The New York Times reports: “The city is on track, for the second time in three years, to have the fewest number of homicides in a 12-month period since 1962.” That’s the first year the NYPD began keeping murder statistics. |NYT|
Hey remember that photo of JFK frolicking on a boat with a bunch of naked ladies that TMZ published earlier today? Yeah, well, it was a fake.
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 »
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