Traditionally, when the NYPD does something wrong involving bikes, they either ratchet things up even further and make the situation way worse or they dig-in, but rarely do they say sorry. Surprise, surprise. Gothamist reports that the officers who WRONGLY ticketed cyclists in Central Park for allegedly speeding after clocking them going a little over 15 mph, personally apologized to 9 out of the 10 riders. Read more »
While the majority of media outlets have focused on the viral improbability of Rebecca Black’s “Friday” song (over 38 million views on YouTube), its cacophony of mind-numbing auto-tuned lyrics, or the money she’s already raked in on the single, no one has spoken up against the sinister esoteric message the video is really sending: promiscuous auto safety. Read more »
The Downtown Diaries interviewed Curtis Kulig, the person responsible for writing and plastering ‘Love Me‘ around NYC for the past few years. Hailing from North Dakota, he eventually ended up in Manhattan thanks to the urging of a girlfriend, who not long after his arrival, broke up with him, motivating his unsanctioned (art)work ethic. Read more »
Here is vomit artist Millie Brown sipping some multicolored paint-shakes and projectile regurgitating it on a canvas while the affair is serenaded by ghostly, professional opera singers and it looks like this in action on video. Word’s out that Nexus Vomitus is still on sale for $2,400 if you wish to drop some dough on a very personal update on Jackson Pollock technique. Bleeeerghegh. (Images: Today and Tomorrow)
Nuclear reactors at Fukushima are still way unstable, radiation has contaminated Tokyo’s water supply making it unsafe for babies, and the death toll in Japan continues to rise, but not all is bad in the Land of the Rising Sun. A baby dolphin was rescued reports Reuters or for the more anally aquatic among you, a “porpoise,” according to the Australia’s Herald Sun. Read more »
The snow just can’t get enough of NYC this year and even though it’s late March, decided to sprinkle Central Park with a light coat of white as one final bitch slap after a full winter beat down. (Photo: @isardasorensen/twitpic)
How did 23-year-old Ed Cooke really train to become the U.S. Memory Champion in less than a year? He’s a pervert! Learn it, people. Associate your most “bizarre and debauched mental images” with your target data and presto pervo! You will remember. Got a card deck to memorize? Fantasize about each of those dirty little whore cards. Turn your pin number into “elaborate sexual configurations.” The more fetishistic, the better. Albeit, don’t go whining if the winding road of your imagination leads you to “uncomfortable places.” Be a champ!
Manhattan’s official east-west diving line, 5th Avenue, a byproduct of the city’s revolutionary street grid, is causing some confusion, hundreds of years later. Bus and street signs along the fancy corridor don’t seem to vibe. The New York Times’ caption reports: Read more »
Begging for change on Houston Street nude, browsing books at the NYU Library nude, buying a street hot dog nude – photographer Erica Simone created this series of self-portraits exposing herself all over New York City doing typical New York City things. Twenty photographs from Nue York are presented at Damon Dash’s gallery as evidence. See some below (NSFW) and… UPDATE: Erica Simone herself tells ANIMAL how she didn’t get arrested doing this. Read more »
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