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...which, normally, is not such a big deal. Except that this one was about 50 feet tall and inflatable.
Ironically, I've seen this thing before in the city. Maybe it was made specifically for protests, because that's what it was being used for here. The rat is positioned in front of The Time Hotel, and kept company by an impressive total of two protestors.
They handed me this:
If asbestos is important to you, then so might asbestos.org.
Most Halloween costumes are all selfish and weird and greedy. Not mine. This year I decided to give back. More "details" after the jump...
Trick or treat, kids...
Closed...
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and, of course, props to the original:
Superphotographer Taku Onoda just had not one, but two spreads in shi-shi Own Magazine. And, he's about to have another in Blackbook Magazine.
If you don't feel like waiting an eon for Own's site to load, why not do to the source? You can see a good sampling of Taku's work here, at his site TAKUStudio.
I've been getting assloads of emails from my zillions of readers about the lack of PowderBlueOrbit posts.
Truth is, I've been growing my nut hair extra long in anticipation of you all sucking them.
Proceed.
This was going around on the InterWebs, and if it's true, it may be the best thing ever.
Oct 21, 2007 9:25 AMSubject:
Swervedriver reuniting!?Body:
Hey, if it's in Billboard, Punknews.org and NYC's the Daily Swarm, what are the possibilities of this actually going through?I'll find out from Adam the truth to these articles and will post info as it comes in. Go get those tour shirts cleaned up and ready! (Garff!)
Bret (yeah, get on it whomever the fuck this is)
Swervedriver Returning To Duty For 2008 Tour
October 19, 2007, 1:20 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. (another whomever the fuck this is)
"U.K. rock act Swervedriver will reunite for a worldwide 2008 tour after a nearly decade-long hiatus. Dates and other details have yet to be announced."
The group (vocalist/guitarist Adam Franklin, guitarist Jimmy Hartridge, bassist Steve George and drummer Jez) split on the heels of its 1998 album "99th Dream." Although it never enjoyed major commercial success in the U.S., Swervedriver was beloved by fans for its psychedelia-tinged rock sound, best heard on the 1993 album "Mezcal Head."
Of late, Franklin has recorded with his band Toshack Highway and as a solo artist. He's presently in the midst of a solo outing in support of his recent album, "Bolts of Melody," and will perform tonight (Oct. 19) in Milwaukee. (Yaaaay!)
This anti-GPS thing is infuriating to me. Cabbies agreed to the installation of GPS and credit card systems when they won their fare increase last year. Now, when it comes time to implement, they bitch about their privacy.
Listen cabbies, you sell a public transportation service. Your passengers are your customers. The GPS and credit card systems benefit your passengers, which in turn, benefits you. Picture yourselves as CEO's of small, cab-sized businesses, and not as lofty rulers of a fiefdom.
Regardless, everyone knows the cabbies are pissed because it'll be more sketchy now for them to broker illegal fares.
SIDE NOTE: We've used the credit card thing, and it's great. Like one of the Gothamist commenters, we found ourselves tipping cash, and tipping slightly more. Best of all, we didn't really have to interact with the cabbie. So and so says:
They really can't get their sh#t together. I see just as many cabs on the street as any other day around here. Some strike, huh? It's pathetic and half-hearted.Cabbies are upset about the new rules requiring credit card and GPS technology in their cars but I don't really understand why?!
I took a cab a few weeks ago and I was thoroughly elated that I could just swipe my card through and get out. I think I even tipped the guy more than I normally would have!
Suddenly taxi drivers are concerned about privacy and Big Brother "tracking" their movements with the GPS system?!?!?
As I've said before: there are about 45,000 some odd taxi drivers in total, driving 13,000 some odd cabs in NYC everyday!
No one is going to be monitoring or "tracking" their movements. I don't know who is getting into their heads but they're being fed a whole lotta bullsh#t.
Just shut up and take me Downtown, you nincompoop.
Bhairavi needs to get her "alliance" in order because all these half-assed strikes are really going to water her whole schtick down. The cabbies are crying wolf and no one cares.
'Nuff said. Xpress bus here I come!
Hey, check out my man's blog, People For The Ethical Treatment of Typography.
As you know, Type Abuse is a very serious and widespread problem. It happens all the time. Rosie "Barrel-head" O'Donnell's rosie.com is a perfect example. Nice logo, dickhead. Are you too busy trying to hawk your worthless shit, while writing confounding entries to even bother kerning the rosie.com logo?
Do you really think the space between "rosie" the "." and "com" is ok? Are you honestly too cheap to hire a decent designer to do this for you? I guess so, since no designer in their right mind would pair the font used for "rosie" with that used for "my blog." And by the way, isn't it obvious it's your fucking blog?
Worse, do you approve of yellow copy over white?
Please put a stop to these sorts of atrocities at once.
Today I felt like doing "Jack" and "Shit." But not at the same time, mind you, because that would require some sort of mystical energy that I currently do not possess.
So, given my current spongy mental state, I was struggling to waste time type IM's, but then something amazing happened. I used a word I know for certain that I've never used before. Which word? Lackadaisical. I was impressed that I even thought of it, moreso that I could use it in an IM. I tried very hard to spell it correctly. My attempt — "lacadaisical."
I had a sneaking feeling I spelled the word incorrectly, and sure enough, I copied it into Google, and hit return to confirm my worst fears. But even more disturbing is the word's corresponding "lacadaisical" image search.
Check out the terror at the 4th ranking in. What the fuck is this? A dog? Guinea pig? Seriously.