He’s no Ted Williams, but this homeless man is talented in his own right. Listen as he zips through a bunch of musical performer impersonations, from Flavor Flav to Frank Sinatra and even a “comedy KKK song” in the Meat Packing district Sunday night. (Video: Kris Hambas/Tumblr)
Mayor Bloomberg and the heartless bastards who run New York City’s Department of Homeless Services have another brilliant idea to compliment the already cruel initiative that the City Council is suing them over. Under that proposal, the homeless need to prove they don’t have anywhere else to stay. Read more »
Despite Lindsay Lohan’s Playboy issue getting leaked on the internet ahead of its newsstand date, Hugh Hefner boasted on Twitter this weekend, that the magazine is “breaking sales records.” Even a homeless man in the Financial District was recently spotted taking advantage of the zeitgeist. (Photo: Joe Stevens/ANIMALNewYork)
Increasingly detached rich guy mayor, Mike Bloomberg, wants to put an end to freeloaders who are just faking their homelessness so they can enjoy the luxury facilities that are NYC’s shelter system. Read more »
An obscene measure that would have required homeless people seeking shelter to prove they have no where else to go is being scrapped by the city… for now. And it’s not because officials had a sudden change of conscience, but due to the possibility of a judge issuing an injunction against the practice. Read more »
Artist Norman Kirby made this sculpture of a figure sleeping on the ground: “I call it, Figure Sleeping on the Ground.” He’s been here for a few weeks, but slept out once and it was very unpleasant. Read more »
In this latest stretch of the high-end fashion imagination, we see supermodel Magdalena Frackowiak playing the part of a bougie bag-lady, lazing about on heaps of cardboard and flattened out Hermès bags. Shot by Giampaolo Sgura for Magazine Antidote, the editorial features a dirt-covered Frackowiak squatting all over Paris – furs, feathers, and quilted Chanel in tow. Aw boo-hoo! Looks like someone just got divorced from their hedge-fund hubby, sans prenup!
Meet Eric Horvitz, a relatively well-put-together homeless man, who says he’s “available” as a “good husband for the night.” For women seeking a longer term arrangement, he’ll consider it, but he does have some prerequisites, like a house in the country with a satellite dish.
Ukraine’s activist troupe FEMEN is keeping busy. In their latest provocation, topless, scuffed and tattered Jenya of FEMEN manhandled and begged metro commuters to spare some change for Ukraine’s national debt and posed next to drunk-napping vagrants. (NSFW) Read more »
Jack Cahill and David Eberhardt spent seven years riding the rails with scraggly punk runaways and derelict sages (and their dogs), capturing the American hobo culture for Long Gone. And now, another seven years after winning at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2003, the phenomenal doc gets its release. Read more »
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