Beverungen I’ve long been an admirer of the linguistic wit of tabloid headline writers, the alliteration, the monikers, the brevity, the improbable juxtapositions. So I was happy to get a chance to try my hand while at Gothamist. And it seems I’ve done it: I made what will be a lasting (i.e., a few months) contribution […]
Category Archives: Dumb Stuff
New Jersey Nyets
27-Sep-09Ernie Anastos.
18-Sep-09Someday maybe we can take apart just why this is so funny. But for now I’m just enjoying it: http://gothamist.com/2009/09/18/catch_phrase_of_the_year_nominee_ke.php
Not a Bad Idea.
10-Sep-09Saw this bumper sticker in Woodstock. An internet search by my inept self revealed no information about who is running this particular dead man’s campaign. With the exception of his untimely 1987 death, this is not a terrible idea.
The Brothers K.
18-Aug-09Even though I love the book, this made me laugh out loud. Especially the bit about Aleksey and Alyosha.
Being in West Virginia at the time of my appointed court date, and confident I could put my case in writing, and certain that I would lose it, I opted for the “hearing by mail” option on my subway ticket. I got it postmarked by July 10th, which I thought was enough time to make […]
Subway Kerfuffle.
29-Jul-09Now that the Gothamist traffic has moved on through, for those unfamiliar with the whole story, let me offer the links to sum up the funny little kerfuffle that blew through here a few weeks ago. The Gothamist story: http://gothamist.com/2009/07/07/smart_guy_gets_rounded_up_in_late_n.php Other links to the story: http://everbosity.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/vitriol/ http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-cops-are-doing-in-subway-these.html http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/07/08/knowing-the-rules-underground/
I wonder…
19-Jul-09On the way down to Maryland, the odometer on my truck froze at 173 thousand and between 399 and 400 miles. It stayed that way for at least fifty miles or so, before resuming motion today. Makes me wonder how many miles the truck really has on it.
It was a dark and stormy night…
09-Jul-09In high school we used to read the books put together by the Bulwer-Lytton contest organizers, a yearly contest for the worst opening sentence of the worst book never written. Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote innumerable novels, none of which promise well from their first pages. The Last Days of Pompeii begins thus: “Ho, Diomed, well met! […]
Getting Around.
03-Jun-09A most unusual five days in New York City, spending time in all five boroughs as well as Nassau County and Jersey City. On Tuesday I drove from Richmond Hill to Jersey City, leaving at 2:45 p.m. I arrived in Jersey City, which is certainly less than 15 miles away as the Crow Flies and […]
Viral Fish.
06-Oct-09http://venturearchitecture.com/author/nathan/ I heard from a friend that the story I penned for Gothamist about the Great Fish of Richmond Hill still had some legs and was getting traffic, and since I doubted this traffic was coming solely from Gothamist, I decided to fish around the internet and see where the story had gone. Sure enough, if […]