January 2006
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No pants is not a crime!
“Something crazy is going on.” The conductor of the Bronx-bound 6 train that hosted Improv Everywhere’s 2k6 edition of “No Pants,” a pants-free subway ride uptown, couldn’t have put it better. Arrests, press, paddy wagons, and lollipops - it was a wild ride. I’m just back from outside the Brooklyn Bridge subway stop where many attendees still await their...
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A revue of the year
Today is Epiphany, a holiday which marks a baptism - a death and a birth - and here I again take the holiday to round out the year that has passed on with a compilation of the best (in my humble opinion) it produced. This year’s list is much more my own than last year: it was published at Tufts in early december, leaving me without much of a hint as to what popular opinion would have to say...
The glory of Ask MeFi
What do you do when you have a vague recollection of a scene from something you saw a few years ago and you want to know what it was? Ask MetaFilter, only the smartest bunch of nuts on the ‘net. I really should just sign up, but fear I would never leave my room again.
Another one bites the dust.
It’s a testament to how tired I am in the mornings that it took me four days of waking up to syrupy sweet Spanish-language pop to realize that the station I was tuned to - 104.9 - wasn’t supposed to be playing Shakira or Marc Anthony at all. It seems that radio-conglomerate Clear Channel Communications has switched the format of the seven year-old San Jose-based ‘Channel...