Quiz Night
Ended up (accidentally) at quiz night at The Mark Bar in Greenpoint after a community meeting last night. Unfortunately it is the red-headed step-brother of quiz night at Pete's Candy Store. Neal & I won third place, and would have gotten first. Note to dude: if you're running quiz night, make sure you know the actual answers! Tampa Bay won the 2003 Super bowl.
Zing. Take that dude. I burned you on my blog. Big time.
Seriously though it was good times.
mike sold out at - 22:18
The Big House
Two artists who performed at the Tank were arrested for hanging up posters for their show. What a crock of shit. I can't believe that they didn't just write these guys a summons. This is such a waste of resources and police time.
mike sold out at - 12:20
10.22.2005
Heifer International?
So I got a "catalog" from this group called "Heifer International" which ostensibly gives livestock to people in the third-world. The only thing is that the quote on the top of the catalog called it "The Most Important Gift Catalog in the World" and had the picture of the above two b-list celebrities, Brad Whitford (Billy Madison) and Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle) on the front. So it was kind of hard to believe it wasn't an Onion-like parody for those reasons.
mike sold out at - 11:02
10.20.2005
New York Changing, by Douglas Levere
This site is freaking facinating
mike sold out at - 16:16
But How Many Chrysler Buildings is That?
My standard metric of large amounts of space that I use in policy talks - equivalents of the Empire State Building's floor space (2.3 million square feet) - has finally caught on.
NY Times
"As the project has moved out of its conceptual phase, awareness of its sheer size - nine million square feet, the equivalent of four Empire State Buildings - and potential impact has spread across Brooklyn, charging a much broader debate about its virtues and flaws."
mike sold out at - 15:10
10.19.2005
