Catching Up

I took a stack of old newspapers to my friend’s apartment so I could catch up on about a week of Style sections and Metro sections.  Here are the fruits of my labor.  Sorry it’s so old.
Ah, the Heat, the Crowd, the Park and the Booze (Times, Metro, July 16)
Around the City, a Shortage at [...]

I’ve Been Busy…

Sorry I haven’t been up here in the blogosphere recently. I went to the beach with some fabulous people last week and had a great time. I also went to Central Park to hear the NY Philharmonic play a free concert AND a fireworks show. My life is pretty fantastic, but it [...]

McCain Vows to Eliminate Those Pesky E-Mail Taxes

Short today, even though I promise you I read both the WaPo and the NYT. The funniest thing I read though, was from John McCain’s economic plan, from his “Pro-Innovation Tax Cuts” section:
“Ban New Cell Phone Taxes: John McCain understands that the same people that would tax e-mail will tax every text message – and [...]

Science, Weddings, Flip-Flops and Flipping the Bird. Sounds Like the 2008 Presidential Campaign.

Photos of hilarious science fair experiments; make sure to scroll down at least to “Crystal Meth: Friend or Foe?”
Wedding Guests Behaving Badly.  Almost as good as Tanno’s story about the hunting themed wedding she attended…If you’re friends with her, ask her to tell the story, it’s fantastic.
Flip-flop podcast from the New York Times.
A glimpse of [...]

Now We Don Our Homosexual Apparel

I already decided not to post most of these stories because either friends already blogged them, gstatus-ed them, or e-mailed them, but my dad wanted to see them in my own little corner of cyberspace, so here goes…
The Boys and the Subway (fast, good, and will make you happy)
Now to my headline, this story is [...]

Articles By People I Know (But Don’t Work With, Because That Wouldn’t Be Fair)

Ok, I don’t know ALL the authors, but enough of them that it was worth bragging in the title.
From The Mayor, rich NYC parents and their anger over their kids not getting into Ivies.  And I thought Whitman was ridiculous…
No, we just have parents repping on the op-ed pages of the Sunday New York Times [...]

Facial Hair, Bruuudevold, Cool Dead Women, and Black Jews From Nebraska

Baseball, fund raising and silly facial hair. Sweet.
Voter turnout in North Dakota town is a big whopping zero. Mayor Darrel Brudevold wins (without even voting for himself)!
“Brudevold said he intended to vote, but that he had crops to tend.”
The title of the obituary already makes it a winner: “Dorothy King, 99; Proud Passenger [...]

Gangsta Shtick

If you’re a loyal Nerd reader, you already know that I love it when The New York Times reviews rap albums.  They’ve outdone themselves this week though, with a review of Lil Wayne’s new album/mixtape, Tha Carter III:
“The mixtapes are inconsistent, of course, and the songs fall back more often on the standard gangsta shtick [...]

New Jersey Transit

I had a lot of articles to post tonight.  Unfortunately I had some personal business to take care of in Hoboken this evening.  Although I don’t usually talk about my life on here, I’d like to explain why this posting is weak.  I work in Manhattan, and usually to get from Manhattan to Hoboken, you [...]

Professor Frank Popper

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, straight from Rutgers University in lovely downtown New Brunswick… Professor Frank Popper
If you think he’s good on the Internet, wait till you meet him in person!  Our faculty is great.
In other, unrelated news:
Remainders of a Shopkeeping Heyday, but Now Simply Trying to Survive (Mom & Dad, you’ll especially [...]