Month: March 2014
Abigail, Washington Square Park. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Vegiees good” box truck by STEF. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
If there’s one thing that Americans from all walks of life can agree with, it’s our national love affair with opiates. From fancy oxycontin pills to grimy packets of heroin, the U.S. is consuming opioid-based narcotics at an alarming rate. Things have gotten so bad, that Attorney General Eric Holder is urging first responders to […]
The New York Times notoriously avoids printing curse words. They don’t print “fucks.” They don’t print “Fucked Up,” even when reviewing their album. They don’t even like printing “screw.” Watching their writers and editors weasel out of shit not fit to print is like reading absurdist literature. There’s Tumblr that highlights various instances of the strange shit that […]
On the heels of our parodies of Diet Coke’s accidentally drug-referencing new ads comes this shot-by-shot remake of one of the campaign’s Taylor Swift-featuring TV spot. In the remake, each of the clip’s scenes — the best man preparing for a wedding toast, a college student standing up in a lecture hall, and Swift at […]
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development , you can afford to live somewhere when the rent is 30 percent or less of your income. That is, if you make $40,000 a year and your rent is more than $1000, you can’t afford your apartment. As you might imagine, there are lots […]
There is a David Lynch tribute art show at Spoke Art San Francisco and, alongside fan art of his idée fixes and memes — severed ears in the grass, the Black Lodge, various heroines in trouble (and plastic) — there’s some fun stuff. Akira Beard’s watercolor on yupo paper of Elephant Man is pretty, in the way […]
The NYPD’s ill-advised bid to issue more jaywalking tickets as a safety measure after a spat of traffic deaths on the Upper West Side isn’t going so well. As Streetsblog reports, cops cited pedestrians on New York State Vehicle & Traffic Law Section 1152, legislation that’s superseded by city law, and sent them to criminal court, […]
DNAinfo reports on the demise Tamara Blaine, who was allegedly killed after receiving silicone butt implants at a pay-by-the-hour hotel. Tamira Mobley, 28, was arrested Monday and accused of killing Tamara Blaine, who was found convulsing on a bed inside a second-floor room at the Liberty Inn Hotel, 51 Tenth Avenue, about 12:33PM July 8, police said. Blaine, whose […]
The latest video from the Eclectic Method samples Matthew McConaughey “inspirational” chest thump routine that weaves itself throughout the most frattiest moments of The Wolf of Wall Street. Warning: “This video contains NSFW drug abuse to a tribal chest thumping capitalist tribal chant.” And this cultural run-off has the best backstory. It wasn’t even in the script. […]
