Just like NYC’s Department of Education had a “rubber room” for shitty teaches, the NYPD has their own version for fuck-up cops, who are in the process of being disciplined, but still get to collect a check.
Performance artist Nate Hill, known for creating an array of mascot-based alter egos, self-explores his changing attitude while he’s in Punch Me Panda mode. He’s apparently becoming more and more confrontational. Sounds like he’s just settling into his permanent role… that of a New Yorker!
Morrissey Stars in KATSU’s Latest Fake Ad
Morrissey circa mid-90s finds himself endorsing Nike in KATSU’s latest series of faux-ads. This one just popped up on Avenue A and 12th Street. There’s a doughnut-grubbing Chief Wiggum in Chinatown on Allen Street too, but the Moz had more passerby doing a WTF double-take. Read more »
Small, mysterious doors are popping up in San Francisco. Shipped from across the country to artist Jeff Waldman to install, twenty conspicuous portals will eventually round off the Doors collab project a la Dan Witz school of street art. Now where’s my damn “drink me” bottle? Read more »
Back in 1811, city officials did something remarkable when they instituted a rectangular street grid. Unlike the confusing twisty streets found in Lower Manhattan, a more orderly system that one critic called a “primal topographic curse,” would forever alter the development of NYC and most importantly, give residents the twice a year urban-solar phenomenon know as Manhattanhenge. Someone—the Illuminati?—clearly knew what they were doing. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork)
The Human Right Watch endorsed the Guggenheim boycott last week. The advocacy group cited “a cycle of abuse that leaves migrant workers deeply indebted, poorly paid, and unable to defend their rights or even quit their jobs” on the Gugg Abu Dhabi construction site in 2009, but the Gugg’s been all “lip service.” Well, it just got real. Read more »
Although no spaghetti was thrown in this subway video recently uploaded to YouTube, one man calling himself “Bloody Loco” did hurl a lot of threats and mean looks at another passenger, who sat there unfazed. The angry guy is basically the embodiment of the idiom: “His bark is worse than his bite.”
Since You Are Listening to Los Angeles, the hypnotic police radio masher-upper has sprouted four more varieties. Is that an “officer down” dispatch I just heard at the NYC version? The ambient music gurgling is decidedly more suspenseful on ours. Plug into San Fransisco, Chicago, and for calm Canadian police chatter en français, oui oui, Montréal.
Parting Shot
The most “awesome” part about this particular tour bus o’ hate visiting NYC is the reminder that we only have to wait until 2012 for them to go away. (Photo: Reddit)
Here’s one young YouTuber’s valiant first “stab” at a supercut remix that attempts to ruin plots for 71 films… that you’ve probably seen already. The spoilers are mostly snippets of key characters getting their heads blown off, blowing something up, getting down or getting away. Read more »
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