Archive: April 11, 2009
red-hook-grain-factory

If you’re wondering why there have been no posts today, it’s because I’ve been here. More pictures to come so stay tuned.

NBC has an amazingly funny new mockumentary TV show called Parks and Recreation about a government committee that is trying to build a new city park. It stars Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, and Rashida Jones and is created by Greg Daniels who is one of the people behind the hugely successful American adaptation of The [...]

5-pointz-collapse

An exterior staircase at Long Island City’s famed 5 Pointz building collapsed yesterday as a woman was walking over it. The building is well-known because of the extensive graffiti covering just about every square inch of the building (inside and out). I’ve walked up those stairs a couple of times before and I never in [...]

How did this happen? And how come nobody jumped in to save him, remove him, or just stop this from continuing through to the entire song? Fake? Maybe. I couldn’t seem to find anything about it on the WDEF website.

I think I’d be more impressed with this 6-year-old ping pong player if she was actually playing somebody for real and not just hitting ping pong balls thrown by her instructor. Sure, she hits really hard and moves pretty quickly, but that’s about it really. Still, I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt since [...]