If the feds conduct another mass murder of geese around New York City in the coming weeks for the sake of air safety, instead of just gassing them and chucking their lifeless bodies into a landfill, the birds will be harvested for food. The tasty fowl morsels will be fed to poor people in Pennsylvania and not the city’s area homeless, because that state is legally set up to dish out wild slaughtered geese to its residents. Aren’t they lucky?
The NYPL has purchased 335 boxes of papers, photos and videotapes from academic-turned-acid guru Timothy Leary. The documents feature detailed drop out session accounts with counter-culture celebs and scribbled gab on “the sexiest season in the long annals of the human race,” the summer of ’69. Read more »
This morning, FEMEN staged a motorcade/traffic jam by the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Ukraine. Hanging out the car windows with bare breasts and niqāb veils, they protested the arrests and whippings of women who attempted to drive in the conservative country. NSFW Read more »
Here’s a fresh series of colorful mosaics from Russian graffiti artist and graphic designer Aske. His new works recently appeared at the Faces & Laces Street Culture Show in Moscow. Here’s the step-by-step: He slices up the plywood, paints the parts with acrylics and mounts them in layers for a subtle relief and more POP.
Kudos to Justin Timberlake for not being a scurrred little celebrity pussy and extolling the virtues of smoking weed in a Playboy interview: “Sometimes I have a brain that needs to be turned off. Some people are just better high.”
You may recall the still photo showing the aftermath of KIDULT’s paint-filled fire extinguisher attack on Supreme’s NYC storefront work and now here’s video of the elusive Frenchman in action. It warms the heart, no?
A Manchester Evening News photographer Sean Wilton was documenting a fight outside a court building and was ordered to stop by a threatening cop. When the photographer explained his rights, he was arrested for “breaching the peace” and thrown in the back of a police van with six brawlers. Read more »
First, the good news via the Wall Street Journal: New York City’s four-year graduation rate reached an all time high of 65 percent in 2010. Now, the bad news: The majority of them are still not ready for college. Even worse news: Apart from the dummy enclaves of Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester, the rest of the state boasts an graduation rate of over 80 percent.
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