December 2011
aconybell:
leslieleslie:
What’s Up / 4 Non...
Fuck Cuomo.
I just paid $38 - plus a $1.50 credit card surcharge - to take a car service from Red Hook to Bushwick. The same ride under the new outer borough taxi program - and in any yellow cab willing to take me - would cost $16.30.
I know, he finally signed it, but the sheer fact that he sat on this bill, nearly vetoed it, and only “brokered a deal” when every single newspaper in town came...
Home at last.
And by home, I mean New York. The seven days spent away from here were the longest amount of time I’ve spent outside New York in six years. It actually felt kind of weird - and comforting - to come back.
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The destination of this train is
Riverside.
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jheath replied to your photo: This is so crazy that it just might work. (I…
Don’t know if I’ll be on the line by then but technically speaking it could be me at the helm of that BOI-SLC leg.
Ha! It’s funny, when I was looking at that itinerary, I thought of that. I don’t think I’ve actually ever flown Skywest before.
Isn't it, though?
nancymartira:
My brother’s response to my email outlining logistics for Christmas 2012:
“You need to relax. You make it sound like Rhode Island is a post-apocolyptic wasteland.”
Little bit? I mean, what do you call a place with no sidewalks, no take-out delivery options and a Legislative battle over a Christmas tree?
Ha! I’ve found myself spending more and more of my time in...
So who's coming to my neighborhood to have the... →
Of course, I’ve been saying NEK has the best burger in the city for more than a year. Glad someone else caught on… or am I?
So this just happened.
I’m sitting at my desk and all of a sudden it starts shaking violently… shades of the earthquake back in August, but less of a swaying motion and more of a violent, rhythmic tremble. I started thinking that this was an even more intense - or closer - quake than the one over the summer.
And just as I was about to jump up and say, “oh my God, we’re having another...
Fun fact!
I just got a raise a couple months ago at work. Thanks to our inept Congress, the take-home pay that I got out of that raise will be completely wiped out by the expiration of the payroll tax cut.
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Deal reached on outer borough taxi bill
thebrooklynpolitics:
From the Daily Politics, it seems that the legislation legalizing the already-ubiquitous practice of hailing livery cabs in the outer boroughs shall become law:
Gov. Cuomo will announce will announce within the half hour a deal on the controversial taxi bill.
Sources says the agreement was reached after a final day of talks between Cuomo, disability groups, aides to the...
On to the fantasy championship!
It’s my third year in a row playing in the championship game in this league.
And this is despite my QB problems that have put Andy Dalton, Josh Freeman, Christian Ponder, and now… Rex Grossman in my QB spot.
Birthday party!
Hey, NYC Tumblr friends! I’m celebrating the big 3-0 at Breukelen Bier Merchants in Williamsburg till 7, then moving the party to Barcade after that. Feel free to come by!
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CRISIS IN ALABAMA: Investigating the Devastating... →
thetart:
excerpt from the report, bold by me:
At an ad hoc hearing on Nov. 21, Mary Bauer shared a “small sample of the kinds of concerns people have raised” through the hot line, including:
A worker called to say his employer refused to pay him, citing HB 56, and stated the worker had no right to be paid under this law.
Latino workers on a construction jobsite were threatened by a group of...
“Forget political correctness. Lowe’s, the national chain, did the right thing in...”
– Asra Q. Nomani on why advertisers, including Lowe’s, was right to boycott the TLC show “All-American Muslim”. Robert Birge, chief marketing officer at travel website Kayak, put it even more bluntly: ”Mostly, I just thought the show sucked.” (via cheatsheet)
Remind me never to work for Kayak’s...
Gross.
In my Twitter timeline just now:
I’ve always found women drinking beer quite unattractive and unfeminine.
I know of a few hundred thousand women who’d beat you to a pulp for that remark, asshole.
