Hike: Ashokan High Point to Peekamoose Mountain

September 7, 2010

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One time, I reached two Catskill summits with Robert.  We reached the Ashokan High Point (3,081 ft.) summit in two and a half hours and took one and a half to get back down. Then we drove a few miles to reach Peekamoose’s (3,843 ft.) trailhead and climbed that one as well, except it was not… [Read more…]

Posted in: Excursions

Movie Recommendation: “Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)”

April 12, 2011

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Posted in: Movies, YouTube Wins

Facebook is Great

March 18, 2011

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Saw this today, and you know, Facebook is right. Maybe it should be the first thing I see everyday, since I use a computer everyday, and since my social life is governed by an online network. If it weren’t for Facebook, my #1 priority in life (next to hygiene, and self-fulfillment), I’d be missing out… [Read more…]

Your Search Queries

March 3, 2011

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WordPress enables its users to see how their articles are found, either through direct searches, or peripheral links from various search engines. Below is a collection of search queries that have led to this site, and that I’ve found AMUSING: man putting down coat in puddle for women snid bits “john holmes” big cock anthony… [Read more…]

Posted in: Social Commentary

Good Listens: Amanda Merdzan

January 27, 2011

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Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Amanda Merdzan visited New York recently to play eight gigs over the course of three months and we just so happened to meet at a competition where people humped the air! It was a pleasure. Give her a listen at http://www.myspace.com/amandamerdzan My favorite song is “To Know You”

Posted in: Good Listens, Music

Air Sex East Coast Regionals (2011)

January 20, 2011

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Tim League, owner and founder of the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas (also home to the music festival Austin City Limits) saw how popular air sex had become in Japan and decided to bring it to America, Iron Chef style. I attended the Air Sex East Coast Regionals in NYC on Friday, 11 January, at the Mercury Lounge… [Read more…]

Today’s Distraction

January 14, 2011

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From the Guardian (UK):  Chicago nanny Vivian Maier died in 2009, leaving behind 100,000 negatives that no one but she had ever seen. Her work was discovered by chance, and now the photographs she took on her days off are being hailed as ‘ranking up there’ with the best in 20th-century street photography (link added).

Today’s Distraction

January 13, 2011

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http://www.banksy.co.uk/

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YAWP

January 10, 2011

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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world.

Posted in: YouTube Wins

Times Square for New Years (2010-1)

January 5, 2011

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One of my closer friends from high school, Antonia, came home for the holidays and told me that  two of her law school buddies wished to experience New Year’s eve in Times Square–so I decided to tag along. Having lived on Long Island for 23 years, this would be my first time ringing in the… [Read more…]

You Complacent Bastards

January 5, 2011

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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Churchill I remember reading once, “Ignorance is an act of will,” and I’ve agreed ever since. None of the bliss bullshit. I think ignorance is… [Read more…]

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