Air Quotes
An old picture I was just sent where I display my disdain for unnecessary quotes on signs with pixel demonstrating her anonymous rocking style.
via Senorita Overdrive
mike sold out at - 23:21
3.28.2005
Breakin' the Law
Participants in the Critical Mass bicycle rides again accused the police yesterday of trying to thwart the group's protests. Officers arrested 37 cyclists as they left Union Square on Friday night, and seized 50 bicycles locked nearby, the police said... the lawyer Norman Siegel, above, who has represented members of Critical Mass, said the seizures were 'without legal basis.' But a police spokesman, Jason Post, said, 'Only bikes in violation of the law were seized.'
Um, how exactly do bikes break laws? Don't people break laws? It seems unlikely that siezing an inanimate object is a prudent law enforcement strategy to prevent said objects from "violating the law."
mike sold out at - 17:29
Credit where credit is due
Sharpton Endorses West Side Stadium
A sure sign that nothing will ever be built on those rail yards. Every political initiative or campaign he has touched has turned to dust.
mike sold out at - 14:49
Credit where credit is due
3.24.2005
A Night At The Circus
The cheap version, that is. We went to the Barnum & Bailey elephant walk from LIC to Madison Square Garden last night.
First we saw the elephants walk at about 12:10 am
Then the lady wanted to be a clown.
Then the lady wanted M&Ms.
mike sold out at - 00:00
3.23.2005
Dangit! Jeopardy had a category that I heard as "Mr. T" but it turns out they spelled it "Mr. Tea." Stupid homophones.
mike sold out at - 19:23
3.15.2005
Dumb MTA
The MTA is threatening the owner of a bagel store with legal action for naming his business "F Line Bagel," as well as "copying the look and feel of the NYC Subway System." What's next? Will the MTA sue the DC Metro for also saying "stand clear of the closing doors"? Will they force private parking garages to spray lysol everywhere because they are copying the public urination smell of the subway?
mike sold out at - 13:15
3.10.2005
Bad Rhymez
A subject of deep thought lately - sometimes, in order to write a good song, you've got to make some bad, bad rhymes. A sampling:
Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn’t last
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California Grass
-Beatles Get Back
This one is so contorted that Steve Tyler had to make up a new word in order for it to work:
Take me back to a south Tallahassee
Down cross the bridge to my sweet sassafrassy
-Aerosmith Last Child
This one is the trifecta of bad rhyming:
Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is
He ain't gonna let those two escape justice
He makes his livin' off of the people's taxes
-Steve Miller Take the Money and Run
and the all time clincher...
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
-Ozzy Osborne War Pigs
What bad rhymez do you know?
mike sold out at - 23:01
3.02.2005
The Haps in the 'Hood
Here's a neat radio piece about Art & Manufacturing in Greenpoint/Williamsburg (Realplayer, 5:00m). It talks a lot about how the rezoning will change my neighborhod and interviews some of the people I've been working with a lot.
